[PATCH net] net: extend IPv6 exthdr detection of tunneled packets
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-09-24 19:21:35
Also in:
stable
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Commit c4336a07eb6b ("net: correctly handle tunneled traffic on IPV6_CSUM
GSO fallback") split skb_gso_has_extension_hdr() into mutually exclusive
branches on skb->encapsulation. This did not yet address all paths:
1. With skb->encapsulation set, the outer header is not checked. IPv6
tunnels such as ip6_gre and ip6_tunnel add an outer Destination
Options header by default (encap_limit). Their GSO packets skip
software GSO, then skb_csum_hwoffload_help() sees the outer extension
header and calls skb_checksum_help() on the GSO skb, which warns and
drops it.
2. Tunnels over IPv6 without an outer transport header, such as
ip6_tunnel, leave skb->transport_header at the inner transport
header. skb_network_header_len() then spans the outer IPv6, tunnel
and inner IP headers, a false positive.
3. UDP tunnels without an inner network header, such as SCTP-in-UDP or
PSP, have no inner IPv6 header to check. Decide on the outer header
alone.
4. Directly dereferencing inner_ip_hdr(skb)->version without
skb_header_pointer() is unsafe.
Instead, check ipv6_ext_hdr(nexthdr) on the outer IPv6 header and, if
set, on the inner IPv6 header. Read the headers with skb_header_pointer().
Use the same helper in skb_csum_hwoffload_help(). Its open coded test
has the false positive of (2) and ignores the inner header.
Background: checksum offload of tunneled packets invariants:
Non-GSO skb:
- If the inner packet is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, Local Checksum Offload computes
the outer checksum in software and the device offloads only the inner L4
checksum.
- If the inner packet is CHECKSUM_NONE (e.g., SCTP-in-UDP, ESP-in-UDP,
Remote Checksum Offload), the device offloads the outer UDP or GRE
checksum instead.
GSO skb:
- A device with NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL_CSUM or NETIF_F_GSO_GRE_CSUM
computes both inner and outer checksums per segment.
The outer checksum is seeded with only the pseudo-header checksum.
A NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM device must parse through the outer headers to
reach the inner ones.
Fixes: c4336a07eb6b ("net: correctly handle tunneled traffic on IPV6_CSUM GSO fallback")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
Stable: trees before commit 1676ebba391d ("net/ipv6: Remove jumbo_remove
step from TX path") (v7.0) must keep the BIG TCP jumbo exemption on the
outer check, or BIG TCP loses TSO (see 68e068cabd2c):
if (vlan_get_protocol(skb) == htons(ETH_P_IPV6) &&
!ipv6_has_hopopt_jumbo(skb) &&
__skb_has_ipv6_ext_hdr(skb, skb_network_offset(skb)))
return true;
Tested with gre_gso.sh over veth with NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM:
- GREv6 without extension headers
- GREv6 with inner dstopts
- GREv6 with outer encaplimit, and
- SCTP-in-UDPv6.
That needs a test-only ethtool feature to veth to advertise
NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM (mutually exclusive with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM).
If no one objects (to test-only veth code), I can follow up with those
veth and selftest patches to net-next later.
---
net/core/dev.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 0292a16e16c2..404ea7437b41 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c@@ -3818,20 +3818,29 @@ static netdev_features_t dflt_features_check(struct sk_buff *skb, return vlan_features_check(skb, features); } -static bool skb_gso_has_extension_hdr(const struct sk_buff *skb) -{ - if (!skb->encapsulation) - return ((skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_TCPV6 || - (skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_UDP_L4 && - vlan_get_protocol(skb) == htons(ETH_P_IPV6))) && - skb_transport_header_was_set(skb) && - skb_network_header_len(skb) != sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)); - else - return (!skb_inner_network_header_was_set(skb) || - ((skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_TCPV6 || - (skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_UDP_L4 && - inner_ip_hdr(skb)->version == 6)) && - skb_inner_network_header_len(skb) != sizeof(struct ipv6hdr))); +static bool __skb_has_ipv6_ext_hdr(const struct sk_buff *skb, int nhoff) +{ + const struct ipv6hdr *ip6h; + struct ipv6hdr _ip6h; + + ip6h = skb_header_pointer(skb, nhoff, sizeof(_ip6h), &_ip6h); + return ip6h && ip6h->version == 6 && ipv6_ext_hdr(ip6h->nexthdr); +} + +static bool skb_has_ipv6_extension_hdr(const struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + if (vlan_get_protocol(skb) == htons(ETH_P_IPV6) && + __skb_has_ipv6_ext_hdr(skb, skb_network_offset(skb))) + return true; + + /* Tunnels without an inner network header, such as SCTP-in-UDP or + * PSP, have no inner IP header and thus no inner extension header. + */ + if (skb->encapsulation && skb_inner_network_header_was_set(skb) && + __skb_has_ipv6_ext_hdr(skb, skb_inner_network_offset(skb))) + return true; + + return false; } static netdev_features_t gso_features_check(const struct sk_buff *skb,
@@ -3886,7 +3895,7 @@ static netdev_features_t gso_features_check(const struct sk_buff *skb, * so neither does TSO that depends on it. */ if (features & NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM && - skb_gso_has_extension_hdr(skb)) + skb_has_ipv6_extension_hdr(skb)) features &= ~(NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO6 | NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_L4); return features;
@@ -3988,8 +3997,7 @@ int skb_csum_hwoffload_help(struct sk_buff *skb, return 0; if (features & (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM)) { - if (vlan_get_protocol(skb) == htons(ETH_P_IPV6) && - skb_network_header_len(skb) != sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)) + if (skb_has_ipv6_extension_hdr(skb)) goto sw_checksum; switch (skb->csum_offset) {
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