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, bpf@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 v2 3/5] net: use eth_type_trans_careful() in __dev_forward_skb2()
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:27:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261028122703.2093730-4-edumazet@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261028122703.2093730-1-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).
Update the empty_skb BPF selftest: at lwt_xmit, BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN
strips the Ethernet header, so the "veth ETH_HLEN+1" packet is a 1-byte
skb. Redirecting it to veth ingress used to read the Ethernet header
past skb->tail and deliver a 1-byte frame; it is now dropped with
NET_RX_DROP, as veth_xmit() already does at egress.
Fixes: 3a0af8fd61f9 ("bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Tested-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
---
net/core/dev.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/empty_skb.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index b3622e532f269333ed62e31fbca0f6ac56dcde8f..a51d53491fa23158cb31fa4764f41f0ad9ecc978 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)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/empty_skb.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/empty_skb.c
index c9fcb70cbafbce571d7826e233920193625dead1..a3938c16557b140e3ee5c116139cf8b636f85e35 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/empty_skb.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/empty_skb.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ void test_empty_skb(void)
int *ifindex;
int err;
int ret;
- int lwt_egress_ret; /* expected retval at lwt/egress */
+ int lwt_ret; /* expected retval at lwt */
__be16 h_proto;
bool success_on_tc;
bool adjust_room;
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ void test_empty_skb(void)
.data_size_in = sizeof(eth_hlen),
.ifindex = &veth_ifindex,
.ret = -ERANGE,
- .lwt_egress_ret = -ERANGE,
+ .lwt_ret = -ERANGE,
.success_on_tc = true,
},
{
@@ -96,17 +96,23 @@ void test_empty_skb(void)
.data_size_in = sizeof(eth_hlen),
.ifindex = &ipip_ifindex,
.ret = -ERANGE,
- .lwt_egress_ret = -ERANGE,
+ .lwt_ret = -ERANGE,
},
- /* ETH_HLEN+1-sized packet should be redirected. */
+ /* ETH_HLEN+1-sized packet should be redirected at TC.
+ * At LWT, the Ethernet header is not part of the skb, and
+ * a 1-byte packet is too short for an Ethernet device.
+ */
{
.msg = "veth ETH_HLEN+1 packet ingress",
.data_in = eth_hlen_pp,
.data_size_in = sizeof(eth_hlen_pp),
.ifindex = &veth_ifindex,
- .lwt_egress_ret = 1, /* veth_xmit NET_XMIT_DROP */
+ /* lwt: skb->len=1, dropped by veth_xmit() at egress
+ * and by __dev_forward_skb2() at ingress.
+ */
+ .lwt_ret = 1, /* NET_XMIT_DROP / NET_RX_DROP */
},
{
.msg = "ipip ETH_HLEN+1 packet ingress",
@@ -144,7 +150,6 @@ void test_empty_skb(void)
eth_hlen.h_proto = tests[i].h_proto;
bpf_object__for_each_program(prog, bpf_obj->obj) {
- bool at_egress = strstr(bpf_program__name(prog), "egress") != NULL;
bool at_tc = !strncmp(bpf_program__section_name(prog), "tc", 2);
bool is_adjust_room = !strcmp(bpf_program__name(prog), "tc_adjust_room");
int expected_ret;
@@ -153,7 +158,7 @@ void test_empty_skb(void)
if (tests[i].adjust_room != is_adjust_room)
continue;
- expected_ret = at_egress && !at_tc ? tests[i].lwt_egress_ret : tests[i].ret;
+ expected_ret = at_tc ? tests[i].ret : tests[i].lwt_ret;
tattr.data_in = tests[i].data_in;
tattr.data_size_in = tests[i].data_size_in;
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-28 12:26 [PATCH net v2 0/5] net: fix eth_type_trans() crashes on skbs coming from the stack Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 12:26 ` [PATCH net v2 1/5] net: add eth_type_trans_careful() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 12:27 ` [PATCH net v2 2/5] loopback: use eth_type_trans_careful() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 18:48 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-28 12:27 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-10-28 19:03 ` [PATCH net v2 3/5] net: use eth_type_trans_careful() in __dev_forward_skb2() Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-28 12:27 ` [PATCH net v2 4/5] openvswitch: use eth_type_trans_careful() in internal_dev_recv() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 19:04 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-28 12:27 ` [PATCH net v2 5/5] net/sched: act_ife: do not consume the inner header on egress Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 17:34 ` [PATCH net v2 0/5] net: fix eth_type_trans() crashes on skbs coming from the stack Alexei Starovoitov
2026-10-28 19:31 ` Daniel Borkmann
2026-10-29 16:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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