Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix reordering addition overflow in MTU probing

[Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>]

On 10/29/26 12:02 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
>
> Commit efb8763d7bbb ("net: ipv4: bound TCP reordering sysctl writes and
> MTU probe sizes") widened size_needed and the MSS multiplication, but
> tp->reordering + 1 is still evaluated as u32. RTAX_REORDERING accepts
> an unrestricted u32, and tcp_init_metrics() can install U32_MAX.
>
> In that case the extra-data requirement becomes zero. A write queue
> with probe_size - 1 data bytes and a FIN satisfies the sequence-space
> check. The coalescing walk can pass the queue head to
> tcp_skb_can_collapse(), and tcp_clone_payload() can produce an skb
> whose advertised payload exceeds the data in its fragments. Local
> delivery followed by TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE can then walk beyond the
> fragment array. KASAN reports a slab-out-of-bounds read in
> can_map_frag().
>
> Cast reordering before incrementing it so the arithmetic handles the
> entire u32 metric range. For U32_MAX, the required size exceeds the
> 32-bit queue and window limits, so the existing checks skip the probe.
> The calculation is unchanged for all other reordering values.
>
> Fixes: efb8763d7bbb ("net: ipv4: bound TCP reordering sysctl writes and MTU probe sizes")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Wyatt Feng <bronzed_45_vested@icloud.com>
> Cc: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>


Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>