[PATCH v3 net] net/packet: guard the ll header push in packet_rcv_spkt()
From: Quchaosheng <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-28 11:31:43
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lkml, stable
Subsystem:
networking [general], packet sockets, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds
packet_rcv_spkt() restores the link layer header with
skb_push(skb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb));
That subtraction is only meaningful when the device actually has a link
layer header. packet_rcv() and tpacket_rcv() both wrap it in
dev_has_header(), which is also the predicate the block comment at the
top of the file states the restore in terms of; packet_rcv_spkt() does
not. commit d549699048b4 ("net/packet: fix packet receive on L3
devices without visible hard header") introduced the helper and changed
the two call sites, and this one stayed behind.
A device without a visible ll header can leave skb->mac_header at the
0xFFFF sentinel that __alloc_skb() initialises it to. A CAN skb does:
init_can_skb() sets pkt_type and ip_summed but does not reset the
headers, and commit 9f10374bb024 ("can: remove private CAN skb
headroom infrastructure") dropped the skb_reset_*_header() calls that
used to be there. skb_mac_header() is then 0xFFFF, the length becomes
a large negative number and skb_push() reports it through
skb_under_panic() -- from softirq context, so it is a full system panic
even with panic_on_oops=0:
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8bd21bc1 len:-65455 put:-65471 head:... data:... tail:0x50 end:0x180 dev:can0
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!
RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x50/0x60
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
skb_push+0x38/0x40
packet_rcv_spkt+0xe1/0x170
__netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x7e8/0xd30
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
The socket type is reachable: packet_create() accepts SOCK_PACKET
alongside SOCK_RAW and SOCK_DGRAM behind the same CAP_NET_RAW check,
and neither the socket length nor a capability check keeps it away
from a CAN interface.
The missing skb_reset_*_header() calls in init_can_skb() are a
regression in their own right and are being fixed separately, but a
packet socket should not turn a link layer that did not initialise its
mac header into a kernel panic. Guard the push the way the other two
receive paths do.
Tested on v7.3-rc5 under QEMU with a slcan device on a pty, which is
the driver RX path: vcan does not reproduce it, because can_send()
resets the headers on the way out. One SOCK_PACKET socket bound to
can0 and one frame written into the line discipline panics an
unpatched kernel with the trace above; the same image with this patch
prints no panic and powers off normally. Both kernels are this tree,
defconfig plus CONFIG_CAN_SLCAN=y, differing only in this hunk.
Fixes: d549699048b4 ("net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices without visible hard header")
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Quchaosheng <redacted>
---
Hello Oliver,
Removed the comment block, as you suggested. You are right that the other
two dev_has_header() call sites do not carry one, and that the block
comment at the top of the file already states the invariant -- so the
comment was only restating the commit message. The hunk is the guard
alone now, two lines.
No behaviour change from v2: same predicate, same push. I re-ran the
QEMU/slcan pair on this exact revision to be sure nothing else moved with
it -- unpatched still panics with skb_under_panic len:-65455 out of
packet_rcv_spkt+0xe1 in interrupt, patched prints no panic and powers off
normally. checkpatch is clean on the resulting diff.
Thanks for the review,
Quchaosheng
net/packet/af_packet.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 7c83e01526ed..a951a1e3c088 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c@@ -1911,7 +1911,8 @@ static int packet_rcv_spkt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, spkt = &PACKET_SKB_CB(skb)->sa.pkt; - skb_push(skb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb)); + if (dev_has_header(dev)) + skb_push(skb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb)); /* * The SOCK_PACKET socket receives _all_ frames.
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