[PATCH linux next v2] net: stmmac: remove software VLAN tag stripping
From: <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-01 02:29:00
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linux-arm-kernel, lkml
Subsystem:
networking drivers, stmmac ethernet driver, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Maxime Chevallier, Linus Torvalds
Problem
=======
When the stmmac driver has NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX enabled by default,
but the hardware does not support hardware stripping of ETH_P_8021AD
(VLAN 802.1ad) tags, the driver falls back to software stripping in
stmmac_rx_vlan(). If the received VLAN packet is fragmented and the
VLAN header resides in the non-linear part of the skb, the driver
attempts to pull the header without first ensuring it is linearized.
This leads to a kernel BUG in __skb_pull() due to invalid header
access.
Crash log
=========
[ 72.212903] kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2700!
[ 72.212908] Kernel BUG [#1]
..
[ 72.212958] [<ffffffff846919d2>] eth_type_trans+0xe2/0x168
[ 72.212962] [<ffffffff844672e2>] stmmac_rx+0x602/0xc58
[ 72.212966] [<ffffffff84467984>] stmmac_napi_poll_rx+0x4c/0xb8
[ 72.212970] [<ffffffff84635246>] __napi_poll+0x2e/0x1e0
[ 72.212975] [<ffffffff8463596e>] net_rx_action+0x31e/0x388
[ 72.212979] [<ffffffff83c329b0>] handle_softirqs+0x170/0x358
[ 72.212983] [<ffffffff83c32cc6>] __irq_exit_rcu+0xd6/0x100
[ 72.212986] [<ffffffff83c32ee0>] irq_exit_rcu+0x18/0x28
[ 72.212989] [<ffffffff84895b1e>] handle_riscv_irq+0x66/0x78
[ 72.212994] [<ffffffff84896728>] do_irq+0x60/0xa0
Root cause
==========
In the software VLAN stripping path, stmmac_rx_vlan() does not call
pskb_may_pull() to ensure that the Ethernet header plus VLAN header
are in the linear area. As a result, __skb_pull() operates on an
skb with insufficient linear data, triggering the BUG check.
Solution
========
The software VLAN stripping logic in stmmac_rx_vlan() was originally
introduced in 2014 by commit b93819854d6e ("stmmac: Add vlan rx for
better GRO performance.") as a workaround to improve GRO performance,
since at that time GRO could not handle frames with VLAN tags. However,
this limitation was resolved in 2015 by commit 66e5133f19e9 ("vlan: Add
GRO support for non hardware accelerated vlan"), which added GRO support
for non-hardware-accelerated VLAN frames. Keeping a software fallback
path for VLAN stripping is no longer necessary and only adds complexity.
Rather than fixing the issue by adding pskb_may_pull() checks to
stmmac_rx_vlan(), remove the function entirely. Additionally, ensure
that hardware VLAN stripping features are only reported via
dev->hw_features when the hardware truly supports them.
Fixes: b93819854d6e ("stmmac: Add vlan rx for better GRO performance.")
Signed-off-by: Peilin He <redacted>
Reviewed-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Kun <redacted>
---
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 27 ++-----------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index b2b7d0242dd3..790b7362048e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c@@ -5021,24 +5021,6 @@ static netdev_features_t stmmac_features_check(struct sk_buff *skb, return vlan_features_check(skb, features); } -static void stmmac_rx_vlan(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb) -{ - struct vlan_ethhdr *veth = skb_vlan_eth_hdr(skb); - __be16 vlan_proto = veth->h_vlan_proto; - u16 vlanid; - - if ((vlan_proto == htons(ETH_P_8021Q) && - dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX) || - (vlan_proto == htons(ETH_P_8021AD) && - dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX)) { - /* pop the vlan tag */ - vlanid = ntohs(veth->h_vlan_TCI); - memmove(skb->data + VLAN_HLEN, veth, ETH_ALEN * 2); - skb_pull(skb, VLAN_HLEN); - __vlan_hwaccel_put_tag(skb, vlan_proto, vlanid); - } -} - /** * stmmac_rx_refill - refill used skb preallocated buffers * @priv: driver private structure
@@ -5407,9 +5389,7 @@ static void stmmac_dispatch_skb_zc(struct stmmac_priv *priv, u32 queue, if (priv->hw->hw_vlan_en) /* MAC level stripping. */ stmmac_rx_hw_vlan(priv, priv->hw, p, skb); - else - /* Driver level stripping. */ - stmmac_rx_vlan(priv->dev, skb); + skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, priv->dev); if (unlikely(!coe) || !stmmac_has_ip_ethertype(skb))
@@ -5901,9 +5881,6 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue) if (priv->hw->hw_vlan_en) /* MAC level stripping. */ stmmac_rx_hw_vlan(priv, priv->hw, p, skb); - else - /* Driver level stripping. */ - stmmac_rx_vlan(priv->dev, skb); skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, priv->dev);
@@ -7965,7 +7942,7 @@ static int __stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *device, ndev->watchdog_timeo = msecs_to_jiffies(watchdog); #ifdef STMMAC_VLAN_TAG_USED /* Both mac100 and gmac support receive VLAN tag detection */ - ndev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX; + ndev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX; if (dwmac_is_xmac(priv->plat->core_type)) { ndev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX; priv->hw->hw_vlan_en = true;
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2.27.0