[PATCH net] gtp: parse extension headers before reading inner protocol
From: Zhixing Chen <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-03 08:43:26
Subsystem:
gtp (gprs tunneling protocol), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Pablo Neira Ayuso, Harald Welte, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
GTPv1-U packets may carry a chain of extension headers before the inner
IP packet. The receive path already parses and skips these extension
headers, but it currently reads the inner protocol before doing so.
As a result, the first extension header byte is interpreted as the inner
IP version. Packets with extension headers are then dropped before PDP
lookup.
Parse the extension header chain before calling gtp_inner_proto(), so the
inner protocol is read from the actual inner IP header.
Signed-off-by: Zhixing Chen <redacted>
---
I noticed this while running a few GTP tunnel tests with a veth pair and a
peer network namespace.
The commands below only set up a small GTPv1-U demo and verify that the
plain tunnel works as expected:
ip link add vroot type veth peer name vpeer
ip a a 172.0.0.1/24 dev vroot
ip link set vroot up
ip a a 172.99.0.1/32 dev lo
gtp-link add gtp0 ip 172.0.0.1 &
gtp-tunnel add gtp0 v1 200 100 172.99.0.2 172.0.0.2
ip r a 172.99.0.2/32 dev gtp0
ip link set gtp0 mtu 1500
ip netns add nspeer
ip link set vpeer netns nspeer
ip netns exec nspeer ip a a 172.0.0.2/24 dev vpeer
ip netns exec nspeer ip link set vpeer up
ip netns exec nspeer ip a a 172.99.0.2/32 dev lo
ip netns exec nspeer ip link set lo up
ip netns exec nspeer gtp-link add gtp1 ip 172.0.0.2 &
ip netns exec nspeer gtp-tunnel add gtp1 v1 100 200 172.99.0.1 172.0.0.1
ip netns exec nspeer ip r a 172.99.0.1/32 dev gtp1
ip netns exec nspeer ip link set gtp1 mtu 1500
With this setup, plain traffic between 172.99.0.1 and 172.99.0.2 goes
through the GTP tunnel.
After that, I used a small sender in the peer namespace to build two
UDP/2152 packets for the root namespace GTP endpoint. Both packets use TEID
200 and carry an inner UDP packet from 172.99.0.2:12345 to
172.99.0.1:9999. The first packet is a plain GTPv1-U T-PDU. The second
packet carries the same inner UDP packet after a GTP extension header.
Before this fix, a receiver bound to 172.99.0.1:9999 only receives the
plain packet:
root@vm:/# python gtp_nsroot_recv.py
listening on 172.99.0.1:9999
received #1 from ('172.99.0.2', 12345): b'plain'
After this fix, it receives both packets:
root@vm:/# python gtp_nsroot_recv.py
listening on 172.99.0.1:9999
received #1 from ('172.99.0.2', 12345): b'plain'
received #2 from ('172.99.0.2', 12345): b'extension'
---
drivers/net/gtp.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/gtp.c b/drivers/net/gtp.c
index a60ef32b35b8..4a8b00548673 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gtp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gtp.c@@ -826,6 +826,10 @@ static int gtp1u_udp_encap_recv(struct gtp_dev *gtp, struct sk_buff *skb) if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, hdrlen)) return -1; + if (gtp1->flags & GTP1_F_EXTHDR && + gtp_parse_exthdrs(skb, &hdrlen) < 0) + return -1; + if (gtp_inner_proto(skb, hdrlen, &inner_proto) < 0) { netdev_dbg(gtp->dev, "GTP packet does not encapsulate an IP packet\n"); return -1;
@@ -840,10 +844,6 @@ static int gtp1u_udp_encap_recv(struct gtp_dev *gtp, struct sk_buff *skb) return 1; } - if (gtp1->flags & GTP1_F_EXTHDR && - gtp_parse_exthdrs(skb, &hdrlen) < 0) - return -1; - return gtp_rx(pctx, skb, hdrlen, gtp->role, inner_proto); }
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