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From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 bpf@vger.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 4/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on leftover length in skb_checksum() and friends
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:36:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007-b4-skbuff-bug-on-v2-4-b9a5f732895b@toxicpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007-b4-skbuff-bug-on-v2-0-b9a5f732895b@toxicpanda.com>

skb_checksum(), skb_crc32c() and __skb_to_sgvec() walk the head, frags
and frag_list and BUG() if they run out of skb before they run out of
@len.  By then nothing has been read past the end of the skb.  The walk
stopped at the end of the data, and the check only tells us the caller
asked for a range the skb doesn't have.  commit 06a0afcfe2f5 ("xfrm: do
pskb_pull properly in __xfrm_transport_prep") fixed one such caller that
crashed in __skb_to_sgvec().

Return what each function already returns when it can't do the work,
with a DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE() for debug kernels:

 - __skb_to_sgvec() returns -EINVAL.  Every skb_to_sgvec() caller has
   checked for a negative return since it learned to return -EMSGSIZE.
 - skb_checksum() and skb_crc32c() return 0, as they already do for
   unreadable frags.  The resulting checksum is wrong, so the packet
   fails verification on receive or goes out with a bad checksum on
   transmit, rather than taking the machine down.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
---
 net/core/skbuff.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index ffc78b1a8ab8..32d7f5ed25eb 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -3619,7 +3619,10 @@ __wsum skb_checksum(const struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, int len, __wsum csum)
 		}
 		start = end;
 	}
-	BUG_ON(len);
+	if (unlikely(len)) {
+		DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	return csum;
 }
@@ -3780,7 +3783,10 @@ u32 skb_crc32c(const struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, int len, u32 crc)
 		}
 		start = end;
 	}
-	BUG_ON(len);
+	if (unlikely(len)) {
+		DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	return crc;
 }
@@ -5339,7 +5345,10 @@ __skb_to_sgvec(struct sk_buff *skb, struct scatterlist *sg, int offset, int len,
 		}
 		start = end;
 	}
-	BUG_ON(len);
+	if (unlikely(len)) {
+		DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 	return elt;
 }
 

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-07 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-07 17:35 [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] net: skbuff: replace most BUG_ON()s with error returns Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on bad arguments to pskb_expand_head() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on a bad frag_list layout in skb_segment() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() when skb_copy_bits() fails in copy helpers Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on a bad csum_start in skb_copy_and_csum_dev() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on leftover length in skb_copy_and_csum_bits() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on a missing head_frag in skb_zerocopy() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: skbuff: remove the BUG_ON()s from skb_shift() Josef Bacik

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