[PATCH net] ppp: linearize and segment bridged packets when required

DORMANTno replies

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-10-22 11:10:43
Subsystem: networking drivers, ppp over ethernet, ppp protocol drivers and compressors, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

PPP channel bridging hands packets received on one channel directly to
the start_xmit() of another. Packets received by PPPoE can be
non-linear, GSO since commit 55a5d8fca836 ("net: pppoe: implement
GRO/GSO support"), or CHECKSUM_PARTIAL when injected with a
virtio_net_hdr. The regular transmit path never sees such packets, and
only PPPoE, which uses dev_queue_xmit(), handles them:

- PPP Async reads the whole packet through skb->data, transmitting
  unrelated memory for non-linear packets.
- PPP Async and Sync send GSO packets as single frames of up to 64KB,
  and CHECKSUM_PARTIAL packets with a bad L4 checksum.
- PPTP and L2TP cannot segment a TCP GSO packet once their GRE or UDP
  header is pushed, and do not finish pending checksums.

Add a xmit_offload flag to struct ppp_channel, set for PPPoE. For other
channels, segment GSO packets in software, using the PPP protocol field
as the L2 header, finish CHECKSUM_PARTIAL checksums, and linearize
packets for channels without direct_xmit, as ppp_push() does. Packets
are dropped if any step fails, or if the channel is busy, as before.

Tested in a VM by bridging PPPoE (on a TAP with IFF_NAPI_FRAGS, or on
veth) to PPP Async on a PTY, PPPoL2TP and PPPoE: non-linear packets no
longer leak garbage, GSO packets (including fraglist GRO) are sent as
valid segments for IPv4 and IPv6, CHECKSUM_PARTIAL packets get a valid
checksum, and PPPoE still receives GSO packets unchanged.

Fixes: 4cf476ced45d ("ppp: add PPPIOCBRIDGECHAN and PPPIOCUNBRIDGECHAN ioctls")
Fixes: 55a5d8fca836 ("net: pppoe: implement GRO/GSO support")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260908072135.877364-1-qingfang.deng@linux.dev
Co-developed-by: Qingfang Deng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c       |  1 +
 include/linux/ppp_channel.h   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
index 1a610a18893ba94b5ff3f69f8e25dcd944ef01a8..68e2ccfb17518af0a94a90e8c7d9bd8acf0b74d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/unaligned.h>
+#include <net/gso.h>
 #include <net/netdev_lock.h>
 #include <net/slhc_vj.h>
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
@@ -2278,6 +2279,61 @@ static bool ppp_decompress_proto(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	return pskb_may_pull(skb, 2);
 }
 
+/* Segment a GSO packet (built by PPPoE GRO, or injected with a
+ * virtio_net_hdr) before sending it to a bridged channel that does
+ * not accept GSO packets.
+ * skb->data points to the PPP protocol field, which is replicated
+ * in front of each segment.
+ * Returns a list of segments, or NULL if the packet was dropped.
+ */
+static struct sk_buff *ppp_bridge_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
+					      netdev_features_t features)
+{
+	struct sk_buff *segs;
+
+	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, PPP_PROTO_LEN))
+		goto drop;
+
+	switch (get_unaligned((__be16 *)skb->data)) {
+	case htons(PPP_IP):
+		skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP);
+		break;
+	case htons(PPP_IPV6):
+		skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
+		break;
+	default:
+		goto drop;
+	}
+	skb_set_network_header(skb, PPP_PROTO_LEN);
+
+	/* No checksum offload: skb_segment() computes the checksums. */
+	segs = skb_gso_segment(skb, features);
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(segs))
+		goto drop;
+
+	consume_skb(skb);
+	return segs;
+
+drop:
+	kfree_skb(skb);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static void ppp_bridge_xmit(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	if (!chan->direct_xmit && skb_linearize(skb))
+		goto drop;
+
+	if (!chan->xmit_offload && skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL &&
+	    skb_checksum_help(skb))
+		goto drop;
+
+	if (chan->ops->start_xmit(chan, skb))
+		return;
+drop:
+	kfree_skb(skb);
+}
+
 /* Attempt to handle a frame via. a bridged channel, if one exists.
  * If the channel is bridged, the frame is consumed by the bridge.
  * If not, the caller must handle the frame by normal recv mechanisms.
@@ -2285,6 +2341,8 @@ static bool ppp_decompress_proto(struct sk_buff *skb)
  */
 static bool ppp_channel_bridge_input(struct channel *pch, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
+	struct sk_buff *segs, *next;
+	struct ppp_channel *chan;
 	struct channel *pchb;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
@@ -2300,8 +2358,21 @@ static bool ppp_channel_bridge_input(struct channel *pch, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	}
 
 	skb_scrub_packet(skb, !net_eq(pch->chan_net, pchb->chan_net));
-	if (!pchb->chan->ops->start_xmit(pchb->chan, skb))
-		kfree_skb(skb);
+
+	chan = pchb->chan;
+	if (!chan->xmit_offload && skb_is_gso(skb)) {
+		/* Channels needing linear packets get linear segments,
+		 * others keep references to the original pages.
+		 */
+		segs = ppp_bridge_gso_segment(skb, chan->direct_xmit ?
+						   NETIF_F_SG : 0);
+		skb_list_walk_safe(segs, skb, next) {
+			skb_mark_not_on_list(skb);
+			ppp_bridge_xmit(chan, skb);
+		}
+	} else {
+		ppp_bridge_xmit(chan, skb);
+	}
 
 outl:
 	spin_unlock_bh(&pchb->downl);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
index ee0e318d6a2a4f32f35231a412b59921b0cb6921..b54bd713cc096f7a33f07ab6a8371898aa69dd5b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
@@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ static int pppoe_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr_unsized *uservaddr
 		po->chan.private = sk;
 		po->chan.ops = &pppoe_chan_ops;
 		po->chan.direct_xmit = true;
+		po->chan.xmit_offload = true;
 
 		error = ppp_register_net_channel(dev_net(dev), &po->chan);
 		if (error) {
diff --git a/include/linux/ppp_channel.h b/include/linux/ppp_channel.h
index 2f63e9a6cc88984c075792dcbd6c832ff45acd51..15bc3aa4f1715c265a5808fcc1cc2b93cc44c519 100644
--- a/include/linux/ppp_channel.h
+++ b/include/linux/ppp_channel.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ struct ppp_channel {
 	void		*ppp;		/* opaque to channel */
 	int		speed;		/* transfer rate (bytes/second) */
 	bool		direct_xmit;	/* no qdisc, xmit directly */
+	bool		xmit_offload;	/* accepts GSO and CHECKSUM_PARTIAL skbs */
 };
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-- 
2.53.0
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help