[PATCH net v5 2/4] net: ipv6: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU
From: Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-01 19:57:58
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
From: Alice Mikityanska <redacted>
This commit bounds cork->base.fragsize to IP6_MAX_MTU for UDP sockets to
avoid a possible overflow of UDP length that triggers a WARN in
udp_set_len_short when setsockopt IPV6_MTU_DISCOVER is set to
IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO or IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE, and a large packet is sent over
a netdev with an unusually large MTU.
Steps to reproduce (included in the new selftest):
1. Set device MTU bigger than IP6_MAX_MTU. cork->base.fragsize will be
set to that MTU in ip6_setup_cork.
2. Set IPV6_MTU_DISCOVER to IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE or IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO. It
lets maxnonfragsize be set to device MTU (cork->fragsize) in
__ip6_append_data, rather than to IP6_MAX_MTU.
3. Send 65528 bytes of payload (+8 bytes of UDP header, +40 bytes of
IPv6 header). Device MTU allows it (it's only one byte bigger than
IP6_MAX_MTU, and the device MTU is bigger than that).
4. The UDP length in the built packet is 65536, which overflows the
16-bit length field and triggers the WARN in udp_set_len_short.
To avoid breaking sending UDP jumbograms over raw IPv6 sockets, limit
the change to UDP sockets only.
The original overflow bug with IPv6 and IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO seems to
predate git history (verified reproduction on 2.6.21), was fixed later,
and then reappeared in commit 427faee167bc ("net: ipv6: introduce
ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward"), which is chosen as the Fixes tag here. The
overflow with IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE reproduces since its introduction in
commit 628a5c561890 ("[INET]: Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_RPOBE").
Fixes: 427faee167bc ("net: ipv6: introduce ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward")
Reported-by: syzbot+ce13c07d96d04716eaa2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a6a966c.86abc875.e5c3d.0054.GAE@google.com/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <redacted>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 8fc4766c8da9..550965058991 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c@@ -1432,6 +1432,8 @@ static int ip6_setup_cork(struct sock *sk, struct inet_cork_full *cork, if (frag_size && frag_size < mtu) mtu = frag_size; + if (sk_is_udp(sk)) + mtu = min(mtu, IP6_MAX_MTU); cork->base.fragsize = mtu; cork->base.gso_size = ipc6->gso_size; cork->base.tx_flags = 0;
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2.55.0