From: xietangxin <xietangxin@h-partners.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>,
Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>, <gaoxingwang1@huawei.com>,
huyizhen <huyizhen2@huawei.com>
Subject: [BUG] vlan: skb_under_panic when toggling NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX on lower device
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:20:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99d678ae-c7b2-4b44-b534-b8320679deb3@h-partners.com> (raw)
[BUG] vlan: skb_under_panic when toggling NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX on lower device
Hi all,
We encountered a skb_under_panic triggered by toggling
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX on the lower device while a VLAN device is
up and sending traffic.
Call trace
==========
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffc0d2900283d8 len:74 put:14
head:ffff334820249c00 data:ffff334820249bfe tail:0x48 end:0xc0 dev:vlan4
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:116!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
Call trace:
skb_panic+0xcc/0xd0
__skb_checksum+0x0/0x480
eth_header+0x48/0x1a0
vlan_dev_hard_header+0xd0/0x284
neigh_connected_output+0x16c/0x20c
ip6_finish_output2+0x4b4/0xd74
__ip6_finish_output.part.0+0x1ac/0x3b0
ip6_finish_output+0x160/0x200
ip6_output+0x13c/0x294
ndisc_send_skb+0x41c/0x6f0
ndisc_send_rs+0xac/0x3b0
addrconf_rs_timer+0x42c/0x660
call_timer_fn+0x54/0x290
expire_timers+0x26c/0x420
Reproducer
==========
# Create veth pair (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX is ON by default)
ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1
ip link set veth0 up
ip link set veth1 up
# Turn off HW VLAN TX offload on lower device
ethtool -K veth0 tx-vlan-hw-insert off
# Create VLAN device on veth0
# At this point: header_ops = &vlan_header_ops, hard_header_len = 18
ip link add link veth0 name veth0.10 type vlan id 10 reorder_hdr off
ip addr add 192.168.10.1/24 dev veth0.10
ip link set veth0.10 up
# Turn HW VLAN TX offload back ON on lower device
# This triggers NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE -> vlan_transfer_features()
# hard_header_len changes from 18 to 14, but header_ops is NOT updated
ethtool -K veth0 tx-vlan-hw-insert on
# When a packet is sent through veth0.10
# - skb is allocated based on hard_header_len=14 -> ~16 bytes
# - vlan_dev_hard_header() pushes VLAN_HLEN(4) + ETH_HLEN(14) = 18 bytes
# - skb_under_panic!
Any feedback or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
--
Best regards,
Tangxin Xie
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-16 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-16 12:20 xietangxin [this message]
2026-07-16 12:53 ` [BUG] vlan: skb_under_panic when toggling NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX on lower device Eric Dumazet
2026-07-16 13:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-07-17 6:42 ` xietangxin
2026-07-20 7:29 ` Eric Dumazet
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