[PATCH net] net/sched: sch_frag: reject a negative L2 length in sch_fragment()
From: Fourie Zhang <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-27 09:24:09
Subsystem:
networking [general], tc subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Jamal Hadi Salim, Jiri Pirko, Linus Torvalds
sch_fragment() bounds the L2 header length only from above:
if (skb_network_offset(skb) > VLAN_ETH_HLEN)
skb_network_offset() returns int and the comparison is signed, so a
negative offset passes. sch_frag_prepare_frag() then stores it in an
unsigned int and uses it as a memcpy() length into the 18-byte per-CPU
l2_data buffer:
unsigned int hlen = skb_network_offset(skb);
memcpy(&data->l2_data, skb->data, hlen);
The offset is negative whenever the network header sits behind
skb->data. ipv6_srh_rcv() runs in that state, because
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu() pulls each extension header as it walks the
chain and the segments_left > 0 branch pushes back only
sizeof(struct ipv6hdr). act_ct enables the static key that gates
sch_frag_xmit_hook() and sets tc_skb_cb(skb)->mru, which survives
receive and forward, so an act_mirred redirect from a root qdisc can
reach sch_fragment() with the offset still negative.
A negative L2 header length is invalid, so reject it through the existing
"L2 header too long to fragment" path. A non-negative offset behaves
exactly as before.
Reproduced on v7.2 by an unprivileged user with only
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWNET). RDX is the truncated length,
(unsigned int)(-42):
RIP: 0010:memcpy+0x8/0x20
RDX: 00000000ffffffd6
sch_frag_prepare_frag+0x364/0x440 net/sched/sch_frag.c:74
sch_fragment+0x1c7/0x7a0 net/sched/sch_frag.c:122
tcf_mirred_to_dev+0x7a9/0xf10
ip6_forward+0x114b/0x31b0
ipv6_rthdr_rcv+0x40d7/0x5e10
With the patch applied the drop path fires and the packet is discarded.
Fixes: c129412f74e9 ("net/sched: sch_frag: add generic packet fragment support.")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI <redacted>
Assisted-by: tencentos-corvus-ai:kimi-k3
Signed-off-by: Fourie Zhang <redacted>
---
net/sched/sch_frag.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_frag.c b/net/sched/sch_frag.c
index 75ee52750919..b68a198b1646 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_frag.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_frag.c@@ -89,9 +89,10 @@ static struct dst_ops sch_frag_dst_ops = { static int sch_fragment(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, u16 mru, int (*xmit)(struct sk_buff *skb)) { + int hlen = skb_network_offset(skb); int ret = -1; - if (skb_network_offset(skb) > VLAN_ETH_HLEN) { + if (hlen < 0 || hlen > VLAN_ETH_HLEN) { net_warn_ratelimited("L2 header too long to fragment\n"); goto err; }
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