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[PATCH net 2/2] net: gro: invalidate frag0 after a pull

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-10-28 14:13:36
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipsec], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Steffen Klassert, Herbert Xu, Linus Torvalds

Status: Superseded by v2 (posted 2026-10-30). [go to v2]

Revision v1 (2 revisions archived); 1 review trailer.

Revisions (2)
  1. v1 current
  2. v2 [diff against previous]
Since commit bd56a29c7a4e ("net: gro: change skb_gro_network_header()"),
skb_gro_header_slow() no longer invalidates NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0
after pskb_may_pull(). skb_gro_may_pull() keeps comparing against the
frag0_len value set in skb_gro_reset_offset(), assuming that after a
slow pull, all later accesses are beyond frag0_len.

This is not true:

- udp4_gro_receive() and udp6_gro_receive() read the network header
  with skb_gro_network_header() after udp_gro_udphdr() pulled the
  UDP header.

- vxlan_gro_receive() calls skb_gro_remcsum_cleanup() at a lower
  offset after the inner handlers pulled their headers.

- skb_gro_remcsum_process() can pull beyond the inner Ethernet header
  before eth_gro_receive() reads it.

- napi_frags_skb() calls __skb_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN) after a slow pull,
  so frag0 still points to the Ethernet header.

If the pull consumed the first page fragment, __skb_pull_tail() released
it. If the head had to grow, pskb_expand_head() freed the old one.
These reads, and the 2-byte write in skb_gro_remcsum_cleanup(), then
access memory the skb no longer holds a reference on.

esp4_gro_receive(), esp6_gro_receive(), skb_gro_receive_list() and
udp_gro_receive_segment() also pull directly and never invalidated
frag0.

Add skb_gro_frag0_invalidate(), which only clears frag0_len, and call
it after each of these pulls. This is a single store in the slow path,
and frag0 stays non NULL, so skb_gro_network_header() does not need
a NULL test.

Fixes: bd56a29c7a4e ("net: gro: change skb_gro_network_header()")
Reported-by: Taesoo Kim <redacted>
Reported-by: Cen Zhang <redacted>
Tested-by: Cen Zhang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
 include/net/gro.h       | 10 ++++++++++
 net/core/gro.c          |  1 +
 net/ipv4/esp4_offload.c |  1 +
 net/ipv4/udp_offload.c  |  1 +
 net/ipv6/esp6_offload.c |  1 +
 5 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/gro.h b/include/net/gro.h
index b560e866683b03314b3e80a887ac4467d1a5acb9..78373e9caf68b6acefcd976ed7192ec5e44db2b9 100644
--- a/include/net/gro.h
+++ b/include/net/gro.h
@@ -160,12 +160,22 @@ static inline bool skb_gro_may_pull(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 	return likely(hlen <= NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0_len);
 }
 
+/* A pull can release the page fragment frag0 points to, or reallocate
+ * skb->head. Make sure later skb_gro_header() and skb_gro_network_header()
+ * calls no longer use frag0.
+ */
+static inline void skb_gro_frag0_invalidate(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0_len = 0;
+}
+
 static inline void *skb_gro_header_slow(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int hlen,
 					unsigned int offset)
 {
 	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, hlen))
 		return NULL;
 
+	skb_gro_frag0_invalidate(skb);
 	return skb->data + offset;
 }
 
diff --git a/net/core/gro.c b/net/core/gro.c
index ff828a3dce3ca649e149a840bd6e3dfd9ddaf0c4..2fe1bbe49a082873a700d36f7a10570f0954526e 100644
--- a/net/core/gro.c
+++ b/net/core/gro.c
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ int skb_gro_receive_list(struct sk_buff *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = 1;
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
+	skb_gro_frag0_invalidate(skb);
 
 	if (NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->last == p)
 		skb_shinfo(p)->frag_list = skb;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/esp4_offload.c b/net/ipv4/esp4_offload.c
index abd77162f5e75ec01d5e66693f20a80a78af9e50..dea34411e77f6cf1302315e665df003e4d1130a6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/esp4_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/esp4_offload.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *esp4_gro_receive(struct list_head *head,
 
 	if (!pskb_pull(skb, offset))
 		return NULL;
+	skb_gro_frag0_invalidate(skb);
 
 	if (xfrm_parse_spi(skb, IPPROTO_ESP, &spi, &seq) != 0)
 		goto out;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
index cf07c3c6611a22c29b57a72420f2f940609f5e9a..62c44c450d78c9c2b9ea38d953376026fd2aa4e7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
@@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *udp_gro_receive_segment(struct list_head *head,
 					NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = 1;
 					return NULL;
 				}
+				skb_gro_frag0_invalidate(skb);
 				if ((skb->ip_summed != p->ip_summed) ||
 				    (skb->csum_level != p->csum_level)) {
 					NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = 1;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/esp6_offload.c b/net/ipv6/esp6_offload.c
index 22895521a57d09acfe091927f20188764f33f91b..674e66541d9f914bf788a148bceea51c1067f541 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/esp6_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/esp6_offload.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *esp6_gro_receive(struct list_head *head,
 
 	if (!pskb_pull(skb, offset))
 		return NULL;
+	skb_gro_frag0_invalidate(skb);
 
 	if (xfrm_parse_spi(skb, IPPROTO_ESP, &spi, &seq) != 0)
 		goto out;
-- 
2.53.0
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