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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
Cc: Fan Gong <gongfan1@huawei.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Xin Guo <guoxin09@huawei.com>, Gur Stavi <gur.stavi@huawei.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hinic3: bound the Rx fragment count to MAX_SKB_FRAGS
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:05:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261018170531.bILLh5Zw@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261010030901.1712792-1-yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>

On 2026-10-10 12:09:01 [+0900], Yehyeong Lee wrote:
> hinic3_rx_poll() takes the packet length from the Rx completion
> descriptor and turns it into a fragment count:
> 
>       pkt_len = RQ_CQE_SGE_GET(vlan_len, LEN);
>       sge_num = pkt_len >> rxq->buf_len_shift ...
> 
> RQ_CQE_SGE_LEN_MASK is a 16-bit field, so pkt_len is up to 65535 and
> sge_num up to 32 with the default 2048-byte buffers.  packaging_skb()
> then calls skb_add_rx_frag() sge_num times without checking the count
> against MAX_SKB_FRAGS, so a device reporting a length above
> MAX_SKB_FRAGS * buf_len writes fragment descriptors past the end of the
> skb's shared info array.
> 
> Driving the receive path with an out-of-range length reports under
> KASAN:
> 
>       BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hinic3_fetch_rx_buffer [hinic3]
>       Write of size 8 ...
>       The buggy address belongs to the object ...
>        which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704
> 
> The length is chosen by the device and an skb cannot hold more than
> MAX_SKB_FRAGS fragments, so drop a frame that needs more instead of
> overrunning the array.  The buffers it claimed are already posted on the
> ring, so return them to the page pool and advance the consumer index
> over them to keep it in step with the device.
> 
> Fixes: 17fcb3dc12bb ("hinic3: module initialization and tx/rx logic")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

How do you run into this? With the default 17 frags and 2048 buffers
your packet is larger than 17 * 2048 = 34KiB. Is this with a large MTU
or does the HW merge packets on its own? Ideally you would like to avoid
this from happening. The user gets just a dropped packet with no clue
what is wrong.

Sebastian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-18 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-10  3:09 [PATCH net] hinic3: bound the Rx fragment count to MAX_SKB_FRAGS Yehyeong Lee
2026-10-10  3:16 ` netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-18 17:05 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2026-10-19  0:10   ` Yehyeong Lee

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