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>
Subject: [PATCH net 3/5] net: use eth_type_trans_careful() in __dev_forward_skb2()
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:26:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261027082604.1485903-4-edumazet@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027082604.1485903-1-edumazet@kernel.org>
A tc egress BPF program can push a tiny link-layer header with
bpf_skb_change_head() on an skb whose head is almost empty, then
redirect it to an Ethernet device ingress. __bpf_redirect_common()
only checks mac_header < network_header, and __dev_forward_skb2()
crashes in eth_type_trans():
tc filter add dev lo egress pref 1 matchall action vlan pop_eth continue
tc filter add dev lo egress pref 2 bpf da obj prog.o
# prog: bpf_skb_change_head(skb, 1, 0);
# return bpf_redirect(veth1_ifindex, BPF_F_INGRESS);
# AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW on lo: 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:
__dev_forward_skb2 (net/core/dev.c:2507)
dev_forward_skb_nomtu (net/core/dev.c:2546)
__dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4738 net/core/dev.c:4998)
packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3157 net/packet/af_packet.c:3189)
Use eth_type_trans_careful(), and drop the packet if the Ethernet
header can not be pulled. This also covers other dev_forward_skb()
users (veth, macvlan, ipvlan, netdevsim, l2tp_eth).
Fixes: 3a0af8fd61f9 ("bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
net/core/dev.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 1a09e7869118059e92b53e00ed873dfc7485ffc3..ac784310a69c1d9ceecf68909334196b555871c5 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2501,14 +2501,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(is_skb_forwardable);
static int __dev_forward_skb2(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
bool check_mtu)
{
- int ret = ____dev_forward_skb(dev, skb, check_mtu);
+ enum skb_drop_reason reason;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = ____dev_forward_skb(dev, skb, check_mtu);
+ if (unlikely(ret))
+ return ret;
- if (likely(!ret)) {
- skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
- skb_postpull_rcsum(skb, eth_hdr(skb), ETH_HLEN);
+ reason = eth_type_trans_careful(skb, dev);
+ if (unlikely(reason)) {
+ dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc(dev);
+ kfree_skb_reason(skb, reason);
+ return NET_RX_DROP;
}
+ skb_postpull_rcsum(skb, eth_hdr(skb), ETH_HLEN);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
int __dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
--
2.53.0
next prev 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 ` [PATCH net 2/5] loopback: use eth_type_trans_careful() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-27 8:26 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
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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