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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
	"David Ahern" <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	"Ido Schimmel" <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	"Willem de Bruijn" <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
	"Marcelo Ricardo Leitner" <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>,
	"Xin Long" <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
	"Aaron Conole" <aconole@redhat.com>,
	"Eelco Chaudron" <echaudro@redhat.com>,
	"Ilya Maximets" <i.maximets@ovn.org>,
	"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"Justin Iurman" <justin.iurman@gmail.com>,
	"Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>,
	"Sabrina Dubroca" <sd@queasysnail.net>,
	"Stefano Brivio" <sbrivio@redhat.com>,
	"Hyunwoo Kim" <imv4bel@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org,
	dev@openvswitch.org, "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 3/5] net: openvswitch: use skb_set_transport_header_careful() in parse_ipv6hdr()
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 13:46:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261113124625.4010206-4-edumazet@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261113124625.4010206-1-edumazet@kernel.org>

skb->transport_header is a 16-bit offset from skb->head, and U16_MAX is
reserved as the "not set" value. skb_set_transport_header() silently
truncates an offset that does not fit.

parse_ipv6hdr() stores the payload offset found by ipv6_find_hdr(),
which depends on the extension headers found in the packet. Should the
value be truncated, key_extract_l3l4() would parse the L4 header at the
wrong place.

Since commit 3744b0964d52 ("ipv6: Implement limits on extension header
parsing") a single chain is bounded to IP6_MAX_EXT_HDRS_CNT headers
(24576 bytes), so this needs a large skb->data - skb->head on top of it,
for instance after several nested decapsulations, each of them possibly
pulling its own extension header chain. No reproducer was written,
this is hardening.

Use skb_set_transport_header_careful() and return -EPROTO if the offset
can not be stored. As for other ipv6_find_hdr() failures, the caller
then sets the transport header to the network header and does not
parse L4. While at it, use payload_ofs directly, since
nh_ofs + nh_len == payload_ofs.

Fixes: 1a37e412a022 ("net: Use 16bits for *_headers fields of struct skbuff")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
 net/openvswitch/flow.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.c b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
index 3734416b518d..5fbeb0cca9dc 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
@@ -438,7 +438,8 @@ static int parse_ipv6hdr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)
 		return -EPROTO;
 
 	nh_len = payload_ofs - nh_ofs;
-	skb_set_transport_header(skb, nh_ofs + nh_len);
+	if (unlikely(!skb_set_transport_header_careful(skb, payload_ofs)))
+		return -EPROTO;
 	key->ip.proto = nexthdr;
 	return nh_len;
 }
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-13 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20261113124625.4010206-1-edumazet@kernel.org>
2026-11-13 12:46 ` [PATCH net 1/5] ipv6: gro: limit the number of extension headers Eric Dumazet
2026-11-13 12:58   ` Hyunwoo Kim
2026-11-13 12:46 ` [PATCH net 2/5] ipv6: mcast: use skb_set_transport_header_careful() in ipv6_mc_check_exthdrs() Eric Dumazet
2026-11-13 12:46 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-11-13 12:46 ` [PATCH net 4/5] sctp: use skb_set_transport_header_careful() in sctp_v6_err() Eric Dumazet
2026-11-13 12:46 ` [PATCH net 5/5] udp: use skb_set_transport_header_careful() in __udp6_lib_err_encap() Eric Dumazet

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