Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix reordering addition overflow in MTU probing

From
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Date
2026-10-28 16:27:07
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Eric Dumazet, 2026-10-28
On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 12:02 PM Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: Kyle Zeng <redacted>

Commit efb8763d7bbb ("net: ipv4: bound TCP reordering sysctl writes and
MTU probe sizes") widened size_needed and the MSS multiplication, but
tp->reordering + 1 is still evaluated as u32. RTAX_REORDERING accepts
an unrestricted u32, and tcp_init_metrics() can install U32_MAX.

In that case the extra-data requirement becomes zero. A write queue
with probe_size - 1 data bytes and a FIN satisfies the sequence-space
check. The coalescing walk can pass the queue head to
tcp_skb_can_collapse(), and tcp_clone_payload() can produce an skb
whose advertised payload exceeds the data in its fragments. Local
delivery followed by TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE can then walk beyond the
fragment array. KASAN reports a slab-out-of-bounds read in
can_map_frag().

Cast reordering before incrementing it so the arithmetic handles the
entire u32 metric range. For U32_MAX, the required size exceeds the
32-bit queue and window limits, so the existing checks skip the probe.
The calculation is unchanged for all other reordering values.

Fixes: efb8763d7bbb ("net: ipv4: bound TCP reordering sysctl writes and MTU probe sizes")
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: Wyatt Feng <redacted>
Cc: Ren Wei <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index c8865205cdc8bacea4e37f67eb60730cb17294aa..39803b874c3373ca635454690a445ba072c05a62 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2720,7 +2720,7 @@ static int tcp_mtu_probe(struct sock *sk)
        mss_now = tcp_current_mss(sk);
        probe_size = tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, (icsk->icsk_mtup.search_high +
                                    icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low) >> 1);
-       size_needed = probe_size + (tp->reordering + 1) * (u64)tp->mss_cache;
+       size_needed = probe_size + ((u64)tp->reordering + 1) * tp->mss_cache;
        interval = icsk->icsk_mtup.search_high - icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low;
        /* When misfortune happens, we are reprobing actively,
         * and then reprobe timer has expired. We stick with current
--
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>

Thanks Kyle and Eric!

neal

ps: It also looks good to the frontier LLM I checked with.
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