[PATCH net-next v2 1/8] ip_tunnel: add drop reasons to the generic RX path
From: Anton Danilov <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-13 03:50:00
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networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
ip_tunnel_rcv() collapses four distinct failures into a single plain kfree_skb(), so a packet dropped there simply vanishes: - the tunnel options carried by the packet do not match the tunnel configuration (checksum or sequence number), - the sequence number is older than the expected one, - the inner network header cannot be pulled, - the ECN decapsulation check fails (RFC 6040). Only the device error counters (rx_crc_errors, rx_fifo_errors, rx_length_errors, rx_frame_errors) hint at the cause, and they are not reported to drop_monitor or to the skb:kfree_skb tracepoint. Add two drop reasons for the tunnel specific cases and reuse the existing ones for the rest: - SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OPT_MISMATCH is used when the packet does not carry the checksum or the sequence number option the tunnel is configured for. This is a configuration mismatch between the two endpoints rather than a corrupted checksum: the checksum itself is validated earlier, in gre_parse_header(). - SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OLD_SEQ is used when the sequence number is older than the expected one. Unlike the previous one this is a property of the received traffic: a remote endpoint that restarts and resets its sequence numbering has all of its packets dropped until i_seqno catches up. - pskb_inet_may_pull_reason() already computes a drop reason, SKB_DROP_REASON_PKT_TOO_SMALL or SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM, which was discarded so far. - SKB_DROP_REASON_IP_TUNNEL_ECN already exists and documents exactly this check, but until now it was only used by vxlan. The sequence number test is split in two so that the two cases can be told apart. The error counters are left unchanged. ip_tunnel_rcv() is the RX path of ip_gre, ipip and sit. The checksum and the sequence number options only exist for GRE, so the two new reasons are reachable through ip_gre alone, while the length and the ECN ones apply to all three. Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5 Signed-off-by: Anton Danilov <redacted> --- include/net/dropreason-core.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/dropreason-core.h b/include/net/dropreason-core.h
index 12f909651591..e1fdd11c939f 100644
--- a/include/net/dropreason-core.h
+++ b/include/net/dropreason-core.h@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ FN(PSP_INPUT) \ FN(PSP_OUTPUT) \ FN(RECURSION_LIMIT) \ + FN(TNL_OPT_MISMATCH) \ + FN(TNL_OLD_SEQ) \ FNe(MAX) /**
@@ -612,6 +614,20 @@ enum skb_drop_reason { SKB_DROP_REASON_PSP_OUTPUT, /** @SKB_DROP_REASON_RECURSION_LIMIT: Dead loop on virtual device. */ SKB_DROP_REASON_RECURSION_LIMIT, + /** + * @SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OPT_MISMATCH: the tunnel options + * carried by the packet do not match the tunnel configuration, e.g. + * a GRE tunnel configured with 'icsum' or 'iseq' received a packet + * with no checksum or no sequence number. + */ + SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OPT_MISMATCH, + /** + * @SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OLD_SEQ: the sequence number carried + * by the packet is older than the one expected by the tunnel, e.g. + * after the remote endpoint restarted and reset its sequence + * numbering. + */ + SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OLD_SEQ, /** * @SKB_DROP_REASON_MAX: the maximum of core drop reasons, which * shouldn't be used as a real 'reason' - only for tracing code gen
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
index 13b5e35e8790..0260a97e990e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ int ip_tunnel_rcv(struct ip_tunnel *tunnel, struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, struct metadata_dst *tun_dst, bool log_ecn_error) { + enum skb_drop_reason reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED; const struct iphdr *iph = ip_hdr(skb); int nh, err;
@@ -392,14 +393,22 @@ int ip_tunnel_rcv(struct ip_tunnel *tunnel, struct sk_buff *skb, test_bit(IP_TUNNEL_CSUM_BIT, tpi->flags)) { DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_crc_errors); DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_errors); + reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OPT_MISMATCH; goto drop; } if (test_bit(IP_TUNNEL_SEQ_BIT, tunnel->parms.i_flags)) { - if (!test_bit(IP_TUNNEL_SEQ_BIT, tpi->flags) || - (tunnel->i_seqno && (s32)(ntohl(tpi->seq) - tunnel->i_seqno) < 0)) { + if (!test_bit(IP_TUNNEL_SEQ_BIT, tpi->flags)) { DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_fifo_errors); DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_errors); + reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OPT_MISMATCH; + goto drop; + } + if (tunnel->i_seqno && + (s32)(ntohl(tpi->seq) - tunnel->i_seqno) < 0) { + DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_fifo_errors); + DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_errors); + reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OLD_SEQ; goto drop; } tunnel->i_seqno = ntohl(tpi->seq) + 1;
@@ -413,7 +422,8 @@ int ip_tunnel_rcv(struct ip_tunnel *tunnel, struct sk_buff *skb, skb_set_network_header(skb, (tunnel->dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER) ? ETH_HLEN : 0); - if (!pskb_inet_may_pull(skb)) { + reason = pskb_inet_may_pull_reason(skb); + if (reason) { DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_length_errors); DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_errors); goto drop;
@@ -428,6 +438,7 @@ int ip_tunnel_rcv(struct ip_tunnel *tunnel, struct sk_buff *skb, if (err > 1) { DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_frame_errors); DEV_STATS_INC(tunnel->dev, rx_errors); + reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_IP_TUNNEL_ECN; goto drop; } }
@@ -451,7 +462,7 @@ int ip_tunnel_rcv(struct ip_tunnel *tunnel, struct sk_buff *skb, drop: if (tun_dst) dst_release((struct dst_entry *)tun_dst); - kfree_skb(skb); + kfree_skb_reason(skb, reason); return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip_tunnel_rcv);
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