linux/drivers/net
Eric Dumazet 44378d02c5 net: always dissect GSO packets in __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb()
Commit 9e8db59132 ("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.

Because __alloc_skb() and __build_skb_around() zero-initialize
skb->network_header to 0 (unlike mac_header and transport_header which
are initialized to ~0U), those four callers always had
skb->network_header == 0 and bypassed flow dissection in
__virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(). More generally, skb->network_header is an
offset from skb->head (where 0 is also a valid offset whenever
skb_headroom(skb) is 0), not a boolean flag.

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 the packet has a malformed network header, it is not rejected and a
subsequent skb_probe_transport_header() also fails, leaving
skb->transport_header at ~0U (0xffff). Similarly, if an IPv4 packet
carries IP options (ihl > 5) or an IPv6 packet carries extension headers,
pulling only nh_min_len + thlen can leave the TCP header outside
skb->head. In both cases, tcp_hdrlen(skb) in skb_gso_transport_seglen()
reads out-of-bounds:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in skb_gso_transport_seglen
  Read of size 2 by task poc/133
  skb_gso_transport_seglen (net/core/gso.c:155)
  skb_gso_validate_mac_len (net/core/gso.c:270)
  tbf_enqueue (net/sched/sch_tbf.c:260)
  dev_qdisc_enqueue (net/core/dev.c:4227)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4884)

In addition, checking virtio_net_hdr_match_proto() only inside
'if (!skb->protocol)' before flow dissection both skipped validation when
skb->protocol was pre-set by the caller and rejected VLAN-tagged frames
whose outer L2 protocol is ETH_P_8021Q or ETH_P_8021AD.

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(). In
   tun_get_user(), drop the redundant skb_reset_mac_header(skb) in the
   IFF_TUN case since __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() unconditionally resets
   mac_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. Moving the virtio_net_hdr_match_proto() check to after
   skb_flow_dissect_flow_keys_basic(), validating keys.basic.n_proto
   against hdr_gso_type.

Fixes: 9e8db59132 ("net: avoid false positives in untrusted gso validation")
Fixes: d5be7f632b ("net: validate untrusted gso packets without csum offload")
Fixes: 924a9bc362 ("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/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261001191140.2818991-3-edumazet@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-10-06 15:35:40 -07:00
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arcnet
bonding bonding: fix the program leak when XDP is replaced 2026-10-02 12:39:21 -07:00
can
dsa net: dsa: mt7530: leave the MDIO IRQ mappings to regmap-irq 2026-09-24 08:16:53 -07:00
ethernet Revert "net: stmmac: propagate PTP addend and system time programming errors" 2026-10-05 18:19:42 -07:00
fddi net: fddi: skfp: fix NULL deref when setting the MAC address while down 2026-09-15 10:31:54 +02:00
fjes
hyperv hv_netvsc: Remove GPADL teardown special case for old Hyper-V hosts 2026-08-24 00:35:42 +00:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: hwsim: serialize pib updates to fix double-free 2026-09-02 10:26:47 +02:00
ipa net: ipa: balance runtime PM reference on remove error 2026-08-20 12:26:24 -07:00
ipvlan ipvlan: unregister upper devices outside pnodes_lock 2026-08-30 14:30:59 -07:00
mctp net: mctp: i3c: serialize probe with bus removal 2026-09-05 09:39:00 +01:00
mdio net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: fix RTL931x C22 extended page selection 2026-09-23 18:54:19 -07:00
netdevsim netdevsim: update queue NAPI association on queue reset 2026-08-20 12:35:57 -07:00
ovpn ovpn: reject invalid peer VPN addresses 2026-09-21 11:39:13 +02:00
pcs net: pcs: rzn1-miic: Clear MIIC protection state before unprotect sequence 2026-09-29 17:15:37 -07:00
phy net: phy: aquantia: fix system interface type not updated in forced mode 2026-10-01 10:15:19 +02:00
plip
ppp ppp_synctty: ensure a writeable skb header 2026-09-09 18:41:57 -07:00
pse-pd
slip slip: remove slip_hangup() to fix use-after-free in slip_receive_buf() 2026-08-27 12:38:27 -07:00
team
thunderbolt Including fixes from Bluetooth, IPSec and Netfilter. 2026-08-27 13:53:43 -07:00
usb net: usb: qmi_wwan: add Rolling Wireless RN947R 2026-09-30 18:05:08 -07:00
vmxnet3
vxlan vxlan: use one headroom snapshot for neighbour replies 2026-09-23 19:29:26 -07:00
wan
wireguard
wireless ath.git update for v7.3-rc5 2026-09-22 13:12:27 +02:00
wwan net: wwan: t7xx: validate the netif index in t7xx_ccmni_recv_skb() 2026-09-16 18:58:45 -07:00
xen-netback
amt.c amt: send the relay's General Query directly from the receive path 2026-10-01 18:11:09 -07:00
bareudp.c
dummy.c
eql.c
geneve.c
gtp.c net: iptunnel: fix stale transport header during tunnel decapsulation 2026-08-28 15:53:46 -07:00
ifb.c
Kconfig
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c
macsec.c macsec: initialize SecY before registering the netdevice 2026-09-24 15:15:20 +02:00
macvlan.c
macvtap.c
Makefile
mdio.c
mhi_net.c
mii.c
net_failover.c net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in net_failover_slave_name_change() 2026-09-10 15:19:06 +02:00
netconsole.c
netkit.c
nlmon.c
ntb_netdev.c treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -07:00
pfcp.c pfcp: fix socket lifetime on netdevice registration failure 2026-09-29 11:10:55 +02:00
rionet.c
sungem_phy.c
tap.c
tun_vnet.h
tun.c net: always dissect GSO packets in __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() 2026-10-06 15:35:40 -07:00
veth.c veth: manage XDP program pointers during channel resize 2026-09-23 16:53:57 -07:00
virtio_net.c net: always dissect GSO packets in __virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() 2026-10-06 15:35:40 -07:00
vrf.c vrf: Stop corrupting skb->csum when capturing CHECKSUM_COMPLETE packets 2026-09-23 17:47:10 -07:00
vsockmon.c
xen-netfront.c