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[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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