From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>,
daniel.zahka@gmail.com, kuba@kernel.org
Cc: willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
raeds@nvidia.com, kees@kernel.org, cratiu@nvidia.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] psp: strip variable-length PSP header in psp_dev_rcv()
Date: Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.f160423d0db@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260501130046.16008-1-devnexen@gmail.com>
David Carlier wrote:
> psp_dev_rcv() unconditionally removes a fixed PSP_ENCAP_HLEN, even
> when psph->hdrlen indicates that the PSP header carries optional
> fields. A frame whose PSP header advertises a non-zero VC or any
> extension would therefore be silently mis-decapsulated: option bytes
> would spill into the inner packet head and downstream parsing would
> fail on a corrupted skb.
>
> Compute the full PSP header length from psph->hdrlen, pull the
> optional bytes into the linear region, and strip the whole header
> when decapsulating. Optional fields (VC, ...) are still ignored,
> just discarded with the rest of the header instead of leaking.
> crypt_offset and the VIRT flag are intentionally not validated here
> - callers know their device's PSP implementation and can decide.
>
> Both in-tree callers gate on hardware-validated PSP, so this is a
> correctness fix rather than a reachable corruption path under
> current configurations.
>
> Fixes: 0eddb8023cee ("psp: provide decapsulation and receive helper for drivers")
> Suggested-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-01 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-30 6:20 [PATCH] psp: reject packets carrying unsupported PSP optional fields David Carlier
2026-04-30 10:32 ` Daniel Zahka
2026-04-30 10:59 ` David CARLIER
2026-05-01 13:00 ` [PATCH net v2] psp: strip variable-length PSP header in psp_dev_rcv() David Carlier
2026-05-01 13:53 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-05-01 14:13 ` Daniel Zahka
2026-05-01 14:39 ` David CARLIER
2026-05-02 0:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-02 0:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
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