From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Alice Mikityanska <alice.kernel@fastmail.im>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>,
syzbot+ce13c07d96d04716eaa2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 2/4] net: ipv6: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:39:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.2dc1a6c7aa3b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260822115717.1161782-3-alice.kernel@fastmail.im>
Alice Mikityanska wrote:
> From: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
>
> This commit bounds cork->base.fragsize to IP6_MAX_MTU to avoid a
in v3 it only does so for UDP due to IPv6 jumbograms.
> possible overflow of UDP length that triggers a WARN in
> udp_set_len_short when setsockopt IPV6_MTU_DISCOVER is set to
> IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO or IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE, and a large packet is sent over
> a netdev with an unusually large MTU.
>
> Steps to reproduce (included in the new selftest):
>
> 1. Set device MTU bigger than IP6_MAX_MTU. cork->base.fragsize will be
> set to that MTU in ip6_setup_cork.
> 2. Set IPV6_MTU_DISCOVER to IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE or IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO. It
> lets maxnonfragsize be set to device MTU (cork->fragsize) in
> __ip6_append_data, rather than to IP6_MAX_MTU.
> 3. Send 65528 bytes of payload (+8 bytes of UDP header, +40 bytes of
> IPv6 header). Device MTU allows it (it's only one byte bigger than
> IP6_MAX_MTU, and the device MTU is bigger than that).
> 4. The UDP length in the built packet is 65536, which overflows the
> 16-bit length field and triggers the WARN in udp_set_len_short.
>
> The original overflow bug with IPv6 and IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO seems to
> predate git history (verified reproduction on 2.6.21), was fixed later,
> and then reappeared in commit 427faee167bc ("net: ipv6: introduce
> ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward"), which is chosen as the Fixes tag here. The
> overflow with IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE reproduces since its introduction in
> commit 628a5c561890 ("[INET]: Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_RPOBE").
>
> Fixes: 427faee167bc ("net: ipv6: introduce ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward")
> Reported-by: syzbot+ce13c07d96d04716eaa2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a6a966c.86abc875.e5c3d.0054.GAE@google.com/
> Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-22 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-22 11:57 [PATCH net v3 0/4] Fix UDP length overflow in edge cases Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 11:57 ` [PATCH net v3 1/4] net: ipv4: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 18:35 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-22 11:57 ` [PATCH net v3 2/4] net: ipv6: " Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 18:39 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-08-22 11:57 ` [PATCH net v3 3/4] selftests: net: Test " Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 18:50 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-25 23:13 ` Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 11:57 ` [PATCH net v3 4/4] net: ipv6: Clamp to IP6_MAX_MTU in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 18:41 ` Willem de Bruijn
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