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[PATCH net v4 3/7] virtio_net: parse tunnel csum_start little-endian

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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2026-10-21 07:50:11
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Subsystem: the rest, virtio core, virtio net driver · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang, Eugenio Pérez

All tunnel related virtio features are > 32, so none of this
functionality can be enabled on legacy mixed-endian device.

Accordingly, all tunnel header fields, csum_start included, are
little-endian.

The nested virtio net header import parses csum_start that way, but the
inner transport offset is parsed with the endianness specified by the
interface.

If tun is misconfigured to legacy big-endian mode while the tunnel
features are enabled, the two parses of this field disagree, and the
value stored in skb->inner_transport_header - which is only
bounds-checked from below - can point past the end of the packet, where
GSO segmentation later dereferences it.

To fix, parse the field little-endian in both places.

Fixes: a2fb4bc4e2a6 ("net: implement virtio helpers to handle UDP GSO tunneling.")
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/virtio_net.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
index d6466f96cdd0..013c6c7e2dea 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ virtio_net_hdr_tnl_to_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	inner_l3min = virtio_l3min(inner_isv6);
 	outer_l3min = ETH_HLEN + virtio_l3min(outer_isv6);
 
-	inner_th = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_start);
+	inner_th = __virtio16_to_cpu(true, hdr->csum_start);
 	inner_nh = le16_to_cpu(vhdr->inner_nh_offset);
 	outer_th = le16_to_cpu(vhdr->outer_th_offset);
 	if (outer_th < outer_l3min ||
-- 
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