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* [PATCH net v2] calipso: keep BIG TCP payload_len in calipso_skbuff_setattr()
@ 2026-10-09 15:59 Joas Antonio dos Santos
  2026-10-10  9:05 ` Wang Zhan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joas Antonio dos Santos @ 2026-10-09 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul Moore
  Cc: Eric Dumazet, Wang Zhan, David S. Miller, Jakub Kicinski,
	Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, netdev, linux-security-module,
	Alice Mikityanska

calipso_skbuff_setattr() adjusts payload_len by the length of the
option it inserts or resizes:

	payload = ntohs(ip6_hdr->payload_len);
	ip6_hdr->payload_len = htons(payload + len_delta);

GRO can build BIG TCP packets larger than IPV6_MAXPLEN, and stores
payload_len == 0 for them; ipv6_payload_len() then falls back to
skb->len.  For such a packet forwarded to a destination mapped to
CALIPSO, the code above writes len_delta (or 65536 + len_delta when
shrinking) into payload_len, and ipv6_payload_len() no longer falls
back to skb->len.  nf_tables, conntrack and sch_cake rely on it.

The same arithmetic also wraps when a packet grows past IPV6_MAXPLEN,
and a BIG TCP packet that shrinks below IPV6_MAXPLEN should get its
real length back.

Set payload_len from the skb length with ipv6_set_payload_len(), which
stores 0 above IPV6_MAXPLEN and the real length otherwise, as
ipv6_gro_complete() does.  The network header was just reset to
skb->data, so skb->len - sizeof(*ip6_hdr) is the payload length.

Tested on one kernel (arm64, QEMU) with SELinux permissive, a minimal
mdp-generated policy (network_peer_controls=1), "netlabelctl calipso
add pass doi:16" and a NetLabel mapping of fd00:2::/64 to CALIPSO
DOI 16.  calipso_skbuff_setattr() was called through
netlbl_skbuff_setattr() from a test-only debugfs hook (not part of
this patch) adding a level-only label; payload_len after the call:

  case                         before fix   after fix   real length
  1000, unlabeled                    1016        1016          1016
  70000 GSO, payload_len 0             16           0         70016
  65530 GSO, grows past MAXPLEN        10           0         65546
  65540 GSO with a 24 byte hop
  header, shrinks below MAXPLEN     65528       65532         65532
  1000 with a 24 byte hop header      992         992           992

(0 means ipv6_payload_len() returns the real length.)  On the forward
path, with a client injecting unlabeled UDP through a router to a
server, the router adds the CALIPSO option and the server delivers all
datagrams (Udp6InDatagrams 5, Ip6InTruncatedPkts 0) with this patch.

Fixes: 81fbc812132c ("ipv6/gro: insert temporary HBH/jumbo header")
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Wang Zhan <wang.zhan@smartx.com>
Signed-off-by: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
---
Changes in v2:
- Use ipv6_set_payload_len(ip6_hdr, skb->len - sizeof(*ip6_hdr)) instead
  of skipping payload_len == 0, so that growing past IPV6_MAXPLEN and
  shrinking below it are handled too (Wang Zhan).
- Test the boundary cases; table in the changelog.

Test-only debugfs hook used above (built in with obj-y in
net/netlabel/Makefile, triggered with
"echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/calipso_selftest"):

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
  /* TEST ONLY, not for submission: drive calipso_skbuff_setattr() through
   * netlbl_skbuff_setattr() around IPV6_MAXPLEN.  Needs a NetLabel mapping
   * of fd00:2::/64 to CALIPSO (netlabelctl).
   * Trigger: echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/calipso_selftest
   */
  #include <linux/debugfs.h>
  #include <linux/ipv6.h>
  #include <linux/module.h>
  #include <linux/skbuff.h>
  #include <net/ipv6.h>
  #include <net/netlabel.h>

  /* hop-by-hop header carrying a CALIPSO option with 8 category bytes,
   * 24 bytes in total, so that a level-only label shrinks it by 8 */
  static const u8 big_hop[24] = {
  	IPPROTO_TCP, 2,				/* next header, 3 x 8 bytes */
  	0x07, 16, 0, 0, 0, 16, 2, 0, 0, 0,	/* CALIPSO, DOI 16, 2 cat words */
  	0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
  	1, 2, 0, 0,				/* PadN */
  };

  static void run_one(const char *name, unsigned int payload, bool labeled,
  		    bool gso)
  {
  	struct netlbl_lsm_secattr secattr;
  	struct ipv6hdr *ip6;
  	struct sk_buff *skb;
  	int rc;

  	skb = alloc_skb(LL_MAX_HEADER + 512 + sizeof(*ip6) + payload, GFP_KERNEL);
  	if (!skb)
  		return;
  	skb_reserve(skb, LL_MAX_HEADER + 512);
  	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
  	ip6 = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(*ip6) + payload);
  	ip6->version = 6;
  	ip6->hop_limit = 64;
  	if (labeled) {
  		ip6->nexthdr = NEXTHDR_HOP;
  		memcpy(ip6 + 1, big_hop, sizeof(big_hop));
  	} else {
  		ip6->nexthdr = IPPROTO_TCP;
  	}
  	ipv6_set_payload_len(ip6, payload);
  	ipv6_addr_set(&ip6->saddr, htonl(0xfd000001), 0, 0, htonl(2));
  	ipv6_addr_set(&ip6->daddr, htonl(0xfd000002), 0, 0, htonl(2));
  	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
  	if (gso) {
  		skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = SKB_GSO_TCPV6;
  		skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = 1400;
  	}

  	netlbl_secattr_init(&secattr);
  	secattr.flags = NETLBL_SECATTR_MLS_LVL;
  	secattr.attr.mls.lvl = 0;

  	pr_info("CALSELFTEST %-12s before: payload_len=%u ipv6_payload_len=%u\n",
  		name, ntohs(ipv6_hdr(skb)->payload_len),
  		ipv6_payload_len(skb, ipv6_hdr(skb)));
  	rc = netlbl_skbuff_setattr(skb, AF_INET6, &secattr);
  	pr_info("CALSELFTEST %-12s after:  rc=%d payload_len=%u ipv6_payload_len=%u real=%u\n",
  		name, rc, ntohs(ipv6_hdr(skb)->payload_len),
  		ipv6_payload_len(skb, ipv6_hdr(skb)),
  		skb->len - (unsigned int)sizeof(struct ipv6hdr));

  	netlbl_secattr_destroy(&secattr);
  	kfree_skb(skb);
  }

  static ssize_t trigger(struct file *f, const char __user *buf, size_t len,
  		       loff_t *pos)
  {
  	run_one("grow-normal", 1000, false, false);	/* 1000 -> 1016 */
  	run_one("grow-bigtcp", 70000, false, true);	/* 70000 -> 70016 */
  	run_one("grow-past", 65530, false, true);	/* 65530 -> 65546 */
  	run_one("shrink-below", 65540, true, true);	/* 65540 -> 65532 */
  	run_one("shrink-normal", 1000, true, false);	/* 1000 -> 992 */
  	return len;
  }

  static const struct file_operations fops = { .write = trigger };

  static int __init calipso_selftest_init(void)
  {
  	debugfs_create_file("calipso_selftest", 0200, NULL, NULL, &fops);
  	return 0;
  }
  late_initcall(calipso_selftest_init);

 net/ipv6/calipso.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/calipso.c b/net/ipv6/calipso.c
index c6a34334e..a0192b4fe 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/calipso.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/calipso.c
@@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ static int calipso_skbuff_setattr(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct ipv6hdr *ip6_hdr;
 	struct ipv6_opt_hdr *hop;
 	unsigned char buf[CALIPSO_MAX_BUFFER];
-	int len_delta, new_end, pad, payload;
+	int len_delta, new_end, pad;
 	unsigned int start, end;
 
 	ip6_hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
@@ -1357,8 +1357,8 @@ static int calipso_skbuff_setattr(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			sizeof(*ip6_hdr) + start);
 		skb_reset_network_header(skb);
 		ip6_hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
-		payload = ntohs(ip6_hdr->payload_len);
-		ip6_hdr->payload_len = htons(payload + len_delta);
+		/* 0 above IPV6_MAXPLEN (BIG TCP), the real length otherwise */
+		ipv6_set_payload_len(ip6_hdr, skb->len - sizeof(*ip6_hdr));
 	}
 
 	hop = (struct ipv6_opt_hdr *)(ip6_hdr + 1);
-- 
2.43.0


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