[PATCH v4 net 1/2] net: vlan: always set hard_header_len with VLAN_HLEN
From: Chen Zhen <hidden>
Date: 2026-01-26 03:55:01
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"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
When tx-vlan-hw-insert is toggled to on, vlan device hard_header_len
will be reduced to dev->hard_header_len since commit 029f5fc31cdb
("8021q: set hard_header_len when VLAN offload features are toggled"),
but the header_ops remains unchanged, ndisc skb will be allocated
with this len and filled in vlan hdr in vlan_dev_hard_header(), but
with reorder_hdr off, the skb room is not enough so it triggers
skb_panic() as below:
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffffa0535126 len:90 put:14
head:ffff916c04232ec0 data:ffff916c04232ebe tail:0x58 end:0x180 dev:veth0.10
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:197!
<TASK>
skb_push+0x39/0x40 net/core/skbuff.c:207
eth_header+0x26/0xb0 net/ethernet/eth.c:90
vlan_dev_hard_header+0x58/0x130 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:85 [8021q]
neigh_connected_output+0xae/0x100 net/core/neighbour.c:1589
ip6_finish_output2+0x2cc/0x650 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:213
ip6_finish_output+0x27/0xd0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:246
ndisc_send_skb+0x1d0/0x370 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:516
ndisc_send_ns+0x5a/0xb0 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:672
addrconf_dad_work+0x2b5/0x380 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4258
process_one_work+0x17f/0x320 kernel/workqueue.c:2743
In case of possible crash from other callers, fix this by always
reserving VLAN_HLEN in hard_header_len even if the header_ops would
not request it.
Fixes: 029f5fc31cdb ("8021q: set hard_header_len when VLAN offload features are toggled")
Signed-off-by: Chen Zhen <redacted>
---
net/8021q/vlan.c | 5 -----
net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 8 +++-----
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index 2b74ed56eb16..a7b5da7f9999 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c@@ -323,11 +323,6 @@ static void vlan_transfer_features(struct net_device *dev, netif_inherit_tso_max(vlandev, dev); - if (vlan_hw_offload_capable(dev->features, vlan->vlan_proto)) - vlandev->hard_header_len = dev->hard_header_len; - else - vlandev->hard_header_len = dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN; - #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FCOE) vlandev->fcoe_ddp_xid = dev->fcoe_ddp_xid; #endif
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
index fbf296137b09..9e81669bffd6 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c@@ -572,13 +572,11 @@ static int vlan_dev_init(struct net_device *dev) #endif dev->needed_headroom = real_dev->needed_headroom; - if (vlan_hw_offload_capable(real_dev->features, vlan->vlan_proto)) { + dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN; + if (vlan_hw_offload_capable(real_dev->features, vlan->vlan_proto)) dev->header_ops = &vlan_passthru_header_ops; - dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len; - } else { + else dev->header_ops = &vlan_header_ops; - dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN; - } dev->netdev_ops = &vlan_netdev_ops;
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