[PATCH net v4 1/2] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
From: Qihang <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-29 03:01:47
Also in:
stable
Subsystem:
networking drivers, networking [general], packet sockets, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds
packet_snd() reads dev->hard_header_len multiple times while allocating
and constructing an skb. Device reconfiguration can change this value
concurrently, for example through bonding device type changes.
For SOCK_RAW, packet_snd() can save a larger value in reserve and later
allocate headroom using a smaller value. Moving skb->data back by reserve
then places it before skb->head, and the following copy from userspace can
attempt an out-of-bounds write.
packet_sendmsg_spkt() has the same issue because it calculates its
reservation and header offset from separate reads before dropping the RCU
read lock to allocate the skb.
Add LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX() for callers that already saved a header length.
Read hard_header_len once in packet_snd() and use it for allocation and
construction. In packet_sendmsg_spkt(), preserve the allocation-time value
through the device lookup retry.
The separate SOCK_DGRAM consistency problem between hard_header_len and
header_ops->create is not addressed here.
Fixes: b84bbaf7a6c8 ("packet: in packet_snd start writing at link layer allocation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Qihang <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 6 ++++--
net/packet/af_packet.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 9981d637f8b5..e50e8abc1392 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h@@ -300,9 +300,11 @@ struct hh_cache { * We could use other alignment values, but we must maintain the * relationship HH alignment <= LL alignment. */ -#define LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) \ - ((((dev)->hard_header_len + READ_ONCE((dev)->needed_headroom)) \ +#define LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX(dev, hlen) \ + ((((hlen) + READ_ONCE((dev)->needed_headroom)) \ & ~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD) +#define LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) \ + LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX(dev, (dev)->hard_header_len) #define LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EXTRA(dev,extra) \ ((((dev)->hard_header_len + READ_ONCE((dev)->needed_headroom) + (extra)) \ & ~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index e75d2932475a..88674a6e868c 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c@@ -1953,8 +1953,9 @@ static int packet_sendmsg_spkt(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, struct net_device *dev; struct sockcm_cookie sockc; __be16 proto = 0; - int err; + int hard_header_len; int extra_len = 0; + int err; /* * Get and verify the address.
@@ -1997,14 +1998,18 @@ static int packet_sendmsg_spkt(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, extra_len = 4; /* We're doing our own CRC */ } + /* Keep the allocation-time header length across retry. */ + if (!skb) + hard_header_len = READ_ONCE(dev->hard_header_len); + err = -EMSGSIZE; - if (len > dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN + extra_len) + if (len > dev->mtu + hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN + extra_len) goto out_unlock; if (!skb) { - size_t reserved = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev); + size_t reserved = LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX(dev, hard_header_len); int tlen = dev->needed_tailroom; - unsigned int hhlen = dev->header_ops ? dev->hard_header_len : 0; + unsigned int hhlen = dev->header_ops ? hard_header_len : 0; rcu_read_unlock(); skb = sock_wmalloc(sk, len + reserved + tlen, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -2034,7 +2039,7 @@ static int packet_sendmsg_spkt(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, err = -EINVAL; goto out_unlock; } - if (len > (dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len + extra_len) && + if (len > (dev->mtu + hard_header_len + extra_len) && !packet_extra_vlan_len_allowed(dev, skb)) { err = -EMSGSIZE; goto out_unlock;
@@ -2956,7 +2961,7 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len) int offset = 0; struct packet_sock *po = pkt_sk(sk); int vnet_hdr_sz = READ_ONCE(po->vnet_hdr_sz); - int hlen, tlen, linear; + int hard_header_len, hlen, tlen, linear; int extra_len = 0; /*
@@ -2996,8 +3001,9 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len) goto out_unlock; } + hard_header_len = READ_ONCE(dev->hard_header_len); if (sock->type == SOCK_RAW) - reserve = dev->hard_header_len; + reserve = hard_header_len; if (vnet_hdr_sz) { err = packet_snd_vnet_parse(msg, &len, &vnet_hdr, vnet_hdr_sz); if (err)
@@ -3018,10 +3024,10 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len) goto out_unlock; err = -ENOBUFS; - hlen = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev); + hlen = LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX(dev, hard_header_len); tlen = dev->needed_tailroom; linear = __virtio16_to_cpu(vio_le(), vnet_hdr.hdr_len); - linear = max(linear, min_t(int, len, dev->hard_header_len)); + linear = max(linear, min_t(int, len, hard_header_len)); skb = packet_alloc_skb(sk, hlen + tlen, hlen, len, linear, msg->msg_flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, &err); if (skb == NULL)
@@ -3037,7 +3043,7 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len) } else if (reserve) { skb_reserve(skb, -reserve); if (len < reserve + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) && - dev->min_header_len != dev->hard_header_len) + dev->min_header_len != hard_header_len) skb_reset_network_header(skb); }
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2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)