* [PATCH net v5] net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers
@ 2026-05-15 22:28 Hyunwoo Kim
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From: Hyunwoo Kim @ 2026-05-15 22:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, horms, kerneljasonxing, kuniyu,
mhal, jiayuan.chen, steffen.klassert, ben, herbert, dsahern,
sultan, sd, malin89, tanjingguo, aaron1esau
Cc: netdev, stable, imv4bel
Two frag-transfer helpers (__pskb_copy_fclone() and skb_shift()) fail
to propagate the SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG bit in skb_shinfo()->flags when
moving frags from source to destination. __pskb_copy_fclone() defers
the rest of the shinfo metadata to skb_copy_header() after copying
frag descriptors, but that helper only carries over gso_{size,segs,
type} and never touches skb_shinfo()->flags; skb_shift() moves frag
descriptors directly and leaves flags untouched. As a result, the
destination skb keeps a reference to the same externally-owned or
page-cache-backed pages while reporting skb_has_shared_frag() as
false.
The mismatch is harmful in any in-place writer that uses
skb_has_shared_frag() to decide whether shared pages must be detoured
through skb_cow_data(). ESP input is one such writer (esp4.c,
esp6.c), and a single nft 'dup to <local>' rule -- or any other
nf_dup_ipv4() / xt_TEE caller -- is enough to land a pskb_copy()'d
skb in esp_input() with the marker stripped, letting an unprivileged
user write into the page cache of a root-owned read-only file via
authencesn-ESN stray writes.
Set SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG on the destination whenever frag descriptors
were actually moved from the source. skb_copy() and skb_copy_expand()
share skb_copy_header() too but linearize all paged data into freshly
allocated head storage and emerge with nr_frags == 0, so
skb_has_shared_frag() returns false on its own; they need no change.
The same omission exists in skb_gro_receive() and skb_gro_receive_list().
The former moves the incoming skb's frag descriptors into the
accumulator's last sub-skb via two paths (a direct frag-move loop and
the head_frag + memcpy path); the latter chains the incoming skb whole
onto p's frag_list. Downstream skb_segment() reads only
skb_shinfo(p)->flags, and skb_segment_list() reuses each sub-skb's
shinfo as the nskb -- both p and lp must carry the marker.
The same omission also exists in tcp_clone_payload(), which builds an
MTU probe skb by moving frag descriptors from skbs on sk_write_queue
into a freshly allocated nskb. The helper falls into the same family
and warrants the same fix for consistency; no TCP TX-side in-place
writer is currently known to reach a user page through this gap, but
a future consumer depending on the marker would regress silently.
The same omission exists in skb_segment(): the per-iteration flag
merge takes only head_skb's flag, and the inner switch that rebinds
frag_skb to list_skb on head_skb-frags exhaustion does not fold the
new frag_skb's flag into nskb. Fold frag_skb's flag at both sites
so segments drawing frags from frag_list members carry the marker.
Fixes: cef401de7be8 ("net: fix possible wrong checksum generation")
Fixes: f4c50a4034e6 ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags")
Suggested-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Suggested-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Suggested-by: Lin Ma <malin89@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Jingguo Tan <tanjingguo@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Aaron Esau <aaron1esau@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- Propagate SHARED_FRAG in skb_segment()
- v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aga1VyHpHaUhnGZa@v4bel/
Changes in v4:
- Include the tcp_clone_payload() propagation suggested by Sabrina
- Drop the skb_try_coalesce() change; addressed by commit f84eca581739.
- v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agW4vC0r8QOUKtRT@v4bel/
Changes in v3:
- Include the skb_gro_receive() audit patch suggested by Sultan
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agToIEDI4TaTNLRb@v4bel/
Changes in v2:
- Also propagate SHARED_FRAG in skb_try_coalesce() and skb_shift()
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agRfuVOeMI5pbHhY@v4bel/
---
net/core/gro.c | 4 ++++
net/core/skbuff.c | 9 ++++++++-
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/gro.c b/net/core/gro.c
index 31d21de5b15a..9f8960789b2c 100644
--- a/net/core/gro.c
+++ b/net/core/gro.c
@@ -213,10 +213,12 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
p->data_len += len;
p->truesize += delta_truesize;
p->len += len;
+ skb_shinfo(p)->flags |= skbinfo->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
if (lp != p) {
lp->data_len += len;
lp->truesize += delta_truesize;
lp->len += len;
+ skb_shinfo(lp)->flags |= skbinfo->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
}
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow = 1;
return 0;
@@ -244,6 +246,8 @@ int skb_gro_receive_list(struct sk_buff *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
p->truesize += skb->truesize;
p->len += skb->len;
+ skb_shinfo(p)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
+
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow = 1;
return 0;
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 9c4e8d331d6d..44ac121cfccb 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -2248,6 +2248,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__pskb_copy_fclone(struct sk_buff *skb, int headroom,
skb_frag_ref(skb, i);
}
skb_shinfo(n)->nr_frags = i;
+ skb_shinfo(n)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
}
if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
@@ -4349,6 +4350,8 @@ int skb_shift(struct sk_buff *tgt, struct sk_buff *skb, int shiftlen)
tgt->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
+ skb_shinfo(tgt)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
+
skb_len_add(skb, -shiftlen);
skb_len_add(tgt, shiftlen);
@@ -4959,7 +4962,8 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset(head_skb, offset,
skb_put(nskb, hsize), hsize);
- skb_shinfo(nskb)->flags |= skb_shinfo(head_skb)->flags &
+ skb_shinfo(nskb)->flags |= (skb_shinfo(head_skb)->flags |
+ skb_shinfo(frag_skb)->flags) &
SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
if (skb_zerocopy_clone(nskb, frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
@@ -4976,6 +4980,9 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
nfrags = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->nr_frags;
frag = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->frags;
frag_skb = list_skb;
+
+ skb_shinfo(nskb)->flags |= skb_shinfo(frag_skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
+
if (!skb_headlen(list_skb)) {
BUG_ON(!nfrags);
} else {
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index f9d8755705f7..6e4bb411dc04 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2626,6 +2626,7 @@ static int tcp_clone_payload(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *to,
todo = min_t(int, skb_frag_size(fragfrom),
probe_size - len);
len += todo;
+ skb_shinfo(to)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
if (lastfrag &&
skb_frag_page(fragfrom) == skb_frag_page(lastfrag) &&
skb_frag_off(fragfrom) == skb_frag_off(lastfrag) +
--
2.43.0
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