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[PATCH net] net/packet: check TX_RING fragments before memory accounting

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-10-28 18:14:57
Also in: stable
Subsystem: networking [general], packet sockets, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds

Status: Landed in mainline as dc4dd12f80e4 on 2026-10-29.

From: Kyle Zeng <redacted>

tpacket_fill_skb() adds the full non-linear payload length to
skb->truesize and sk_wmem_alloc before checking MAX_SKB_FRAGS. With
PACKET_VNET_HDR, userspace can submit a ring-sized frame even when it
greatly exceeds the device MTU.

A near-INT_MAX frame can saturate sk_wmem_alloc before the fragment
loop rejects it. A subsequent refcount_add(0x40000001) can temporarily
turn REFCOUNT_SATURATED into 1. A concurrent TX completion can then
drop that apparent last reference and free the still-live packet
socket before refcount_warn_saturate() restores the counter.

Check that the remaining payload fits in MAX_SKB_FRAGS pages before
accounting it. Include the initial page offset in the calculation,
and move the existing -EFAULT handling out of the fragment loop.
This preserves the accepted packet sizes and error code while
preventing an invalid frame from injecting an oversized byte charge.

Fixes: 69e3c75f4d54 ("net: TX_RING and packet mmap")
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <redacted>
[edumazet: use net_warn_ratelimited() instead of pr_err(), add a Fixes: tag]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 823e0911c910fa95d85bdf187eddef802cf65726..cf6429f09477263534b631199aae85c30de2fffe 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2655,6 +2655,12 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packet_sock *po, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 	offset = offset_in_page(data);
+	if (unlikely(to_write > MAX_SKB_FRAGS * PAGE_SIZE - offset)) {
+		net_warn_ratelimited("Packet exceed the number of skb frags(%u)\n",
+				     (unsigned int)MAX_SKB_FRAGS);
+		return -EFAULT;
+	}
+
 	len_max = PAGE_SIZE - offset;
 	len = ((to_write > len_max) ? len_max : to_write);
 
@@ -2666,12 +2672,6 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packet_sock *po, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	while (likely(to_write)) {
 		nr_frags = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
 
-		if (unlikely(nr_frags >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) {
-			pr_err("Packet exceed the number of skb frags(%u)\n",
-			       (unsigned int)MAX_SKB_FRAGS);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
-
 		page = pgv_to_page(data);
 		data += len;
 		flush_dcache_page(page);
-- 
2.53.0
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