[PATCH 6.18] sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
From: Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-25 07:44:01
Also in:
linux-sctp, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
networking [general], sctp protocol, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long, Linus Torvalds
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
commit 2cd7e6971fc2787408ceef17906ea152791448cf upstream.
udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() / udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() are expected to run with
BH disabled. After commit 6f1a9140ecda ("add xmit recursion limit to
tunnel xmit functions"), on the path:
udp(6)_tunnel_xmit_skb() -> ip(6)tunnel_xmit()
dev_xmit_recursion_inc()/dec() must stay balanced on the same CPU.
Without local_bh_disable(), the context may move between CPUs, which can
break the inc/dec pairing. This may lead to incorrect recursion level
detection and cause packets to be dropped in ip(6)_tunnel_xmit() or
__dev_queue_xmit().
Fix it by disabling BH around both IPv4 and IPv6 SCTP UDP xmit paths.
In my testing, after enabling the SCTP over UDP:
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec ha iperf3 -s
- without this patch:
# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.2 MBytes 31.2 Mbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.1 MBytes 31.1 Mbits/sec receiver
- with this patch:
# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec receiver
Fixes: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions")
Fixes: 046c052b475e ("sctp: enable udp tunneling socks")
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c874a8548221dcd56ff03c65ba75a74e6cf99119.1776017727.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk <redacted>
---
net/sctp/ipv6.c | 2 ++
net/sctp/protocol.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/sctp/ipv6.c b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
index d725b2158758..7434309785cc 100644
--- a/net/sctp/ipv6.c
+++ b/net/sctp/ipv6.c@@ -261,9 +261,11 @@ static int sctp_v6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sctp_transport *t) skb_set_inner_ipproto(skb, IPPROTO_SCTP); label = ip6_make_flowlabel(sock_net(sk), skb, fl6->flowlabel, true, fl6); + local_bh_disable(); udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(dst, sk, skb, NULL, &fl6->saddr, &fl6->daddr, tclass, ip6_dst_hoplimit(dst), label, sctp_sk(sk)->udp_port, t->encap_port, false, 0); + local_bh_enable(); return 0; }
diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
index 9dbc24af749b..6ce58fc95ef5 100644
--- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c@@ -1102,10 +1102,12 @@ static inline int sctp_v4_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sctp_transport *t) skb_reset_inner_mac_header(skb); skb_reset_inner_transport_header(skb); skb_set_inner_ipproto(skb, IPPROTO_SCTP); + local_bh_disable(); udp_tunnel_xmit_skb(dst_rtable(dst), sk, skb, fl4->saddr, fl4->daddr, dscp, ip4_dst_hoplimit(dst), df, sctp_sk(sk)->udp_port, t->encap_port, false, false, 0); + local_bh_enable(); return 0; }
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