[PATCH net-next v4 03/10] gre: make gre_parse_header() report a drop reason
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From: Anton Danilov <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-22 22:15:25
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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
Revision v4 of 5 in this series.
Revisions (5)
gre_parse_header() returns -EINVAL for every failure and its receive
callers turn that into a plain kfree_skb(). The only detail they could
get so far was the csum_err flag, which none of them actually reads:
both ip_gre and ip6_gre declare it, pass it in and then ignore it.
Make gre_parse_header() return the drop reason instead, with
SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET for a valid header, and let the two receive paths
report it. The header length it used to return is already stored in
tpi->hdr_len, so the callers take it from there. Two reasons are added:
- SKB_DROP_REASON_GRE_INVALID_HDR, for a header carrying an unsupported
version or the routing bit,
- SKB_DROP_REASON_GRE_CSUM, for a checksum error, like the existing
TCP_CSUM, UDP_CSUM, ICMP_CSUM and IP_CSUM.
The header pull failures reuse SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC, which
documents exactly this case, and gre_rcv() in the demux reuses
pskb_may_pull_reason() and SKB_DROP_REASON_UNHANDLED_PROTO.
csum_err had a second use: the ICMP error handlers pass NULL for it, so
that a checksum failure does not reject the header and the rest of it is
still parsed, as they only get a part of the original packet. That came
with commit b0350d51f001 ("ip_gre: fix parsing gre header in ipgre_err")
and becomes an explicit icmp_err argument. The checksum is still
computed either way.
Tunnel lookup failures still report SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED here,
which gre_rcv() sets again once the header is parsed; they are
addressed in the following patches.
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Anton Danilov <redacted>
---
include/net/dropreason-core.h | 9 ++++++++
include/net/gre.h | 5 +++--
net/ipv4/gre_demux.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 18 +++++++--------
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 18 +++++++--------
5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/dropreason-core.h b/include/net/dropreason-core.h
index edbe58a22ddf..ffa11206b6ca 100644
--- a/include/net/dropreason-core.h
+++ b/include/net/dropreason-core.h@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ FN(RECURSION_LIMIT) \ FN(TNL_OPT_MISMATCH) \ FN(TNL_OLD_SEQ) \ + FN(GRE_INVALID_HDR) \ + FN(GRE_CSUM) \ FNe(MAX) /**
@@ -629,6 +631,13 @@ enum skb_drop_reason { * numbering. */ SKB_DROP_REASON_TNL_OLD_SEQ, + /** + * @SKB_DROP_REASON_GRE_INVALID_HDR: the GRE header is invalid, e.g. + * an unsupported version or the routing bit is set. + */ + SKB_DROP_REASON_GRE_INVALID_HDR, + /** @SKB_DROP_REASON_GRE_CSUM: GRE checksum error */ + SKB_DROP_REASON_GRE_CSUM, /** * @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/include/net/gre.h b/include/net/gre.h
index b55f67ecd2fc..4cb19abea90d 100644
--- a/include/net/gre.h
+++ b/include/net/gre.h@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ struct gre_protocol { int gre_add_protocol(const struct gre_protocol *proto, u8 version); int gre_del_protocol(const struct gre_protocol *proto, u8 version); -int gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, - bool *csum_err, __be16 proto, int nhs); +enum skb_drop_reason +gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, + bool icmp_err, __be16 proto, int nhs); static inline bool netif_is_gretap(const struct net_device *dev) {
diff --git a/net/ipv4/gre_demux.c b/net/ipv4/gre_demux.c
index 96fd7dc6d82d..e117056525f0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/gre_demux.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/gre_demux.c@@ -56,28 +56,35 @@ int gre_del_protocol(const struct gre_protocol *proto, u8 version) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gre_del_protocol); -/* Fills in tpi and returns header length to be pulled. +/* Fills in tpi, including the header length to be pulled in tpi->hdr_len, + * and returns SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET, or the reason to drop the packet if the + * header is rejected. * Note that caller must use pskb_may_pull() before pulling GRE header. + * + * @icmp_err is set by the ICMP error handlers, which only get a part of + * the original packet: a checksum failure does not reject the header then, + * the checksum is still computed and the rest of the header is parsed. */ -int gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, - bool *csum_err, __be16 proto, int nhs) +enum skb_drop_reason +gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, + bool icmp_err, __be16 proto, int nhs) { const struct gre_base_hdr *greh; __be32 *options; int hdr_len; if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, nhs + sizeof(struct gre_base_hdr)))) - return -EINVAL; + return SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC; greh = (struct gre_base_hdr *)(skb->data + nhs); if (unlikely(greh->flags & (GRE_VERSION | GRE_ROUTING))) - return -EINVAL; + return SKB_DROP_REASON_GRE_INVALID_HDR; gre_flags_to_tnl_flags(tpi->flags, greh->flags); hdr_len = gre_calc_hlen(tpi->flags); if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, nhs + hdr_len)) - return -EINVAL; + return SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC; greh = (struct gre_base_hdr *)(skb->data + nhs); tpi->proto = greh->protocol;
@@ -87,9 +94,8 @@ int gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, if (!skb_checksum_simple_validate(skb)) { skb_checksum_try_convert(skb, IPPROTO_GRE, null_compute_pseudo); - } else if (csum_err) { - *csum_err = true; - return -EINVAL; + } else if (!icmp_err) { + return SKB_DROP_REASON_GRE_CSUM; } options++;
@@ -117,7 +123,7 @@ int gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, val = skb_header_pointer(skb, nhs + hdr_len, sizeof(_val), &_val); if (!val) - return -EINVAL; + return SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC; tpi->proto = proto; if ((*val & 0xF0) != 0x40) hdr_len += 4;
@@ -133,28 +139,32 @@ int gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, struct erspan_base_hdr *ershdr; if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, nhs + hdr_len + sizeof(*ershdr))) - return -EINVAL; + return SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC; ershdr = (struct erspan_base_hdr *)(skb->data + nhs + hdr_len); tpi->key = cpu_to_be32(get_session_id(ershdr)); } - return hdr_len; + return SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(gre_parse_header); static int gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) { + enum skb_drop_reason reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED; const struct gre_protocol *proto; u8 ver; int ret; - if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, 12)) + reason = pskb_may_pull_reason(skb, 12); + if (reason) goto drop; ver = skb->data[1]&0x7f; - if (ver >= GREPROTO_MAX) + if (ver >= GREPROTO_MAX) { + reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_UNHANDLED_PROTO; goto drop; + } rcu_read_lock(); proto = rcu_dereference(gre_proto[ver]);
@@ -167,11 +177,11 @@ static int gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) drop_nohandler: rcu_read_unlock(); dev_core_stats_rx_nohandler_inc(skb->dev); - kfree_skb(skb); + kfree_skb_reason(skb, SKB_DROP_REASON_UNHANDLED_PROTO); return NET_RX_DROP; drop: dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc(skb->dev); - kfree_skb(skb); + kfree_skb_reason(skb, reason); return NET_RX_DROP; }
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index 5e877018e006..ae50fd0f6792 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ static void gre_err(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 info) const int code = icmp_hdr(skb)->code; struct tnl_ptk_info tpi; - if (gre_parse_header(skb, &tpi, NULL, htons(ETH_P_IP), - iph->ihl * 4) < 0) + if (gre_parse_header(skb, &tpi, true, htons(ETH_P_IP), + iph->ihl * 4)) return; if (type == ICMP_DEST_UNREACH && code == ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED) {
@@ -439,9 +439,8 @@ static int ipgre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi, static int gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) { + enum skb_drop_reason reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED; struct tnl_ptk_info tpi; - bool csum_err = false; - int hdr_len; #ifdef CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST if (ipv4_is_multicast(ip_hdr(skb)->daddr)) {
@@ -451,25 +450,26 @@ static int gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) } #endif - hdr_len = gre_parse_header(skb, &tpi, &csum_err, htons(ETH_P_IP), 0); - if (hdr_len < 0) + reason = gre_parse_header(skb, &tpi, false, htons(ETH_P_IP), 0); + if (reason) goto drop; + reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED; if (unlikely(tpi.proto == htons(ETH_P_ERSPAN) || tpi.proto == htons(ETH_P_ERSPAN2))) { - if (erspan_rcv(skb, &tpi, hdr_len) == PACKET_RCVD) + if (erspan_rcv(skb, &tpi, tpi.hdr_len) == PACKET_RCVD) return 0; goto out; } - if (ipgre_rcv(skb, &tpi, hdr_len) == PACKET_RCVD) + if (ipgre_rcv(skb, &tpi, tpi.hdr_len) == PACKET_RCVD) return 0; out: icmp_send(skb, ICMP_DEST_UNREACH, ICMP_PORT_UNREACH, 0); drop: dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc(skb->dev); - kfree_skb(skb); + kfree_skb_reason(skb, reason); return 0; }
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index c851af22b9fe..d36949cbe9fa 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c@@ -389,8 +389,8 @@ static int ip6gre_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt, struct tnl_ptk_info tpi; struct ip6_tnl *t; - if (gre_parse_header(skb, &tpi, NULL, htons(ETH_P_IPV6), - offset) < 0) + if (gre_parse_header(skb, &tpi, true, htons(ETH_P_IPV6), + offset)) return -EINVAL; ipv6h = (const struct ipv6hdr *)skb->data;
@@ -566,20 +566,20 @@ static int ip6erspan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, static int gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) { + enum skb_drop_reason reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED; struct tnl_ptk_info tpi; - bool csum_err = false; - int hdr_len; - hdr_len = gre_parse_header(skb, &tpi, &csum_err, htons(ETH_P_IPV6), 0); - if (hdr_len < 0) + reason = gre_parse_header(skb, &tpi, false, htons(ETH_P_IPV6), 0); + if (reason) goto drop; + reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED; - if (iptunnel_pull_header(skb, hdr_len, tpi.proto, false)) + if (iptunnel_pull_header(skb, tpi.hdr_len, tpi.proto, false)) goto drop; if (unlikely(tpi.proto == htons(ETH_P_ERSPAN) || tpi.proto == htons(ETH_P_ERSPAN2))) { - if (ip6erspan_rcv(skb, &tpi, hdr_len) == PACKET_RCVD) + if (ip6erspan_rcv(skb, &tpi, tpi.hdr_len) == PACKET_RCVD) return 0; goto out; }
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ static int gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) icmpv6_send(skb, ICMPV6_DEST_UNREACH, ICMPV6_PORT_UNREACH, 0); drop: dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc(skb->dev); - kfree_skb(skb); + kfree_skb_reason(skb, reason); return 0; }
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