[PATCH net] ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom from phy_dev
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2026-08-04 15:54:18
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
ipvlan devices inherit hard_header_len from phy_dev during ipvlan_init(),
but leave needed_headroom set to 0.
When the underlying phy_dev (or stacked lower device) requires extra headroom
for headers (e.g. macsec, ipsec, wireguard, tunnels, or veth with rx headroom),
upper layers calculating packet headroom via LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) fail to
reserve sufficient headroom.
This can result in reallocation failures, skb headroom underflows, or KASAN
slab-use-after-free crashes when dev_hard_header() / ipvlan_hard_header()
prepends header data.
Fix this by:
1. Inheriting needed_headroom from phy_dev in ipvlan_init().
2. Propagating needed_headroom updates to attached ipvlans in
ipvlan_device_event() when receiving NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE events.
Note that a similar issue exists in macvlan and will be handled in another
patch.
Fixes: 2ad7bfab3016 ("ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.")
Reported-by: syzbot+1f9fd0f4b601cf88d6e6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a720a21.40259c87.584f4.04bb.GAE@google.com/T/#u (local)
Reported-by: Tangxin Xie <redacted>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CANn89i+1EW-sFNK8xoq98gMbPCeLS7e=+rs9gHfLg5Wj+4x0sw@mail.gmail.com/T/#mcc6307f115e500df23ea2980d5669fe95f20b6b4 (local)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c
index ed46439a9f4eb1dd8bfaf6c83476ba4f2aff31bc..7513c005a5121676d3f8edb0898492ad434a9fab 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ static int ipvlan_init(struct net_device *dev) dev->lltx = true; netif_inherit_tso_max(dev, phy_dev); dev->hard_header_len = phy_dev->hard_header_len; + dev->needed_headroom = phy_dev->needed_headroom; netdev_lockdep_set_classes(dev);
@@ -773,6 +774,7 @@ static int ipvlan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, case NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE: list_for_each_entry(ipvlan, &port->ipvlans, pnode) { netif_inherit_tso_max(ipvlan->dev, dev); + ipvlan->dev->needed_headroom = dev->needed_headroom; netdev_update_features(ipvlan->dev); } break;
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