From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@kernel.org,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: always dissect GSO packets in __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb()
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:54:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.e1283f58a0ec@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260927195536.2489079-1-edumazet@google.com>
Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Commit 9e8db5913264 ("net: avoid false positives in untrusted gso
> validation") added a '&& skb->network_header' check before flow-dissecting
> GSO packets without VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM in
> __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(), because some callers (such as tun_get_user(),
> tun_xdp_one(), virtnet_receive_done(), and raw_verify_header()) called
> virtio_net_hdr_*_to_skb() before initializing skb->network_header and
> skb->dev.
>
> However, skb->network_header is an offset from skb->head, not a boolean
> flag. When skb_headroom(skb) is 0 on a device without L2 headers (for
> instance packet_snd() or tpacket_snd() on a tunnel/pure-L3 device where
> LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX(dev, 0) == 0), skb_reset_network_header(skb)
> legitimately sets skb->network_header to 0.
>
> Whenever the 'if (gso_type && skb->network_header)' branch was skipped,
> the fallback 'else if (gso_type)' only pulled nh_min_len + thlen (40 bytes
> for TCPv4) without dissecting the packet, without validating ip_proto or
> n_proto, and without setting skb->transport_header. If an IPv4 packet
> carries IP options (ihl > 5, up to 60 bytes) or an IPv6 packet carries
> extension headers, pulling only nh_min_len + thlen leaves the TCP header
> outside skb->head, causing tcp_hdrlen(skb) in skb_gso_transport_seglen()
> to read out-of-bounds:
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in skb_gso_transport_seglen+0x173/0x200 net/core/skbuff.c:5503
> Read of size 1 at addr ffff888103c7ec4d by task repro/5718
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> skb_gso_transport_seglen+0x173/0x200 net/core/skbuff.c:5503
> skb_gso_network_seglen include/linux/skbuff.h:4718 [inline]
> skb_gso_validate_network_len+0x92/0x1a0 net/core/skbuff.c:5566
> ip_finish_output_gso net/ipv4/ip_output.c:285 [inline]
> __ip_finish_output+0x28b/0x4a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:316
>
> In addition, when skb->protocol is pre-set by a caller before
> __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(), 'if (!skb->protocol)' is skipped and
> virtio_net_hdr_match_proto() was not checked.
>
> Fix this by:
> 1. Initializing skb->dev and skb->network_header (plus skb->protocol for
> IFF_TUN) before virtio_net_hdr_*_to_skb() in tun_get_user(),
> tun_xdp_one(), virtnet_receive_done(), and raw_verify_header().
> 2. Removing '&& skb->network_header' and the unvalidated
> 'else if (gso_type)' fallback in __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() so all GSO
> packets without VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM are flow-dissected, have
> their transport header pulled into linear data, and have
> skb->transport_header set.
> 3. Validating virtio_net_hdr_match_proto(keys.basic.n_proto, hdr_gso_type)
> after skb_flow_dissect_flow_keys_basic().
>
> Fixes: 9e8db5913264 ("net: avoid false positives in untrusted gso validation")
> Fixes: d5be7f632bad ("net: validate untrusted gso packets without csum offload")
> Fixes: 924a9bc362a5 ("net: check if protocol extracted by virtio_net_hdr_set_proto is correct")
> Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260927163117.746432-2-bestswngs@gmail.com/
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Thanks Eric.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-28 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-27 19:55 [PATCH net] net: always dissect GSO packets in __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() Eric Dumazet
2026-09-27 20:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-09-27 22:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-09-28 0:54 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-09-28 1:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-09-28 6:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-09-28 6:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-09-28 8:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-09-28 10:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-09-29 3:55 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
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