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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
	Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
	Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	dev@openvswitch.org,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Ren Wei <weir@nebusec.ai>, Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/5] loopback: use eth_type_trans_careful()
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:26:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261027082604.1485903-3-edumazet@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027082604.1485903-1-edumazet@kernel.org>

tc egress actions can leave an skb with fewer than ETH_HLEN bytes in
its linear part. loopback_xmit() then crashes in eth_type_trans():

  tc qdisc add dev lo clsact
  tc filter add dev lo egress matchall action vlan pop_eth
  # AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW: eth / eth / 8192 bytes of payload

  kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2839!
  RIP: 0010:eth_type_trans (include/linux/etherdevice.h:635 net/ethernet/eth.c:163)
  Call Trace:
   loopback_xmit (drivers/net/loopback.c:87)
   dev_hard_start_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:5455 include/linux/netdevice.h:5464 net/core/dev.c:4057 net/core/dev.c:4073)
   __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:5066)
   packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3157 net/packet/af_packet.c:3189)

The same happens with "action ife decode" on lo egress.

Use eth_type_trans_careful(), and drop the packet if the Ethernet
header can not be pulled.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261005052249.1914367-2-weir@nebusec.ai/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/loopback.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c
index 55ecd5ebac0f21b61b64373c429a6f9ba5d15c8e..8a6cb34e6b5f02c88dfb0c6bf112068c4f51fec1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blackhole_netdev);
 static netdev_tx_t loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 				 struct net_device *dev)
 {
+	enum skb_drop_reason reason;
 	int len;
 
 	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
@@ -84,7 +85,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	 */
 	skb_dst_force(skb);
 
-	skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
+	reason = eth_type_trans_careful(skb, dev);
+	if (unlikely(reason)) {
+		dev_core_stats_tx_dropped_inc(dev);
+		kfree_skb_reason(skb, reason);
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+	}
 
 	len = skb->len;
 	if (likely(__netif_rx(skb) == NET_RX_SUCCESS))
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-27  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-27  8:25 [PATCH net 0/5] net: fix eth_type_trans() crashes on skbs coming from the stack Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27  8:26 ` [PATCH net 1/5] net: add eth_type_trans_careful() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27 13:51   ` Aaron Conole
2026-10-27 15:02   ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-27  8:26 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-10-27  8:26 ` [PATCH net 3/5] net: use eth_type_trans_careful() in __dev_forward_skb2() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27  8:26 ` [PATCH net 4/5] openvswitch: use eth_type_trans_careful() in internal_dev_recv() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27 13:50   ` Aaron Conole
2026-10-27  8:26 ` [PATCH net 5/5] net/sched: act_ife: do not consume the inner header on egress Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27  9:17 ` [PATCH net 0/5] net: fix eth_type_trans() crashes on skbs coming from the stack Jamal Hadi Salim
2026-10-27  9:51   ` Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27 13:07     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2026-10-27 14:00       ` Aaron Conole
2026-10-27 14:33       ` Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27 14:40 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-27 15:49   ` Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27 19:48     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2026-10-27 20:34       ` Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27 21:20         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2026-10-27 21:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-28  5:02   ` Eric Dumazet

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