From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Ilkka Lappeteläinen" <ilkka.lappetelainen@gmail.com>,
"Willem de Bruijn" <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/packet: prevent TX_RING byte count overflow
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:37:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.1b973fd535145@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260925124829.6595-1-ilkka.lappetelainen@gmail.com>
Ilkka Lappeteläinen wrote:
> tpacket_snd() drains every SEND_REQUEST frame in a TX ring and adds
> each valid packet length to the signed int len_sum. Userspace can
> recycle completed frames concurrently, so a single blocking send call
> is not bounded by the ring size.
>
> After enough successful transmissions len_sum wraps into the negative
> range. In particular, 65536 65535-byte frames followed by a 65007-byte
> frame produce 0xfffffdef, or -EIOCBQUEUED. sock_sendmsg_nosec() treats
> that as an impossible return and triggers a BUG. On systems configured
> to panic on oops, a CAP_NET_RAW holder can panic the host kernel.
>
> Stop before the next frame would make the byte count exceed INT_MAX.
> The positive short count leaves that frame pending for a later send
> call.
>
> A two-thread TPACKET_V2 reproducer triggered the BUG on an arm64 build
> of Linux 7.3-rc4. With this change, the same reproducer returned the
> expected positive short count without an oops.
>
> Fixes: 69e3c75f4d54 ("net: TX_RING and packet mmap")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Ilkka Lappeteläinen <ilkka.lappetelainen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-25 12:48 [PATCH net] net/packet: prevent TX_RING byte count overflow Ilkka Lappeteläinen
2026-09-27 20:37 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-09-29 23:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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