Re: [PATCH net 2/3] selftests: net: tuntap: fix UDP checksum length in build_udp_packet_csum()

From
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date
2026-11-04 02:10:57
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Reply to
Eric Dumazet, 2026-11-03
Eric Dumazet wrote:
build_udp_packet_csum() passes udph->len, which is in network byte
order, as the number of bytes to checksum. On little-endian hosts this
reads up to 64KB past the UDP header and computes a wrong checksum.

Existing callers did not crash only because they use packet buffers
of MAX_VNET_TUNNEL_PACKET_SZ bytes.

Use ntohs(udph->len), as tap.c does in its own build_udp_packet().

Fixes: a942fcd72e97 ("selftest: tun: Introduce tuntap_helpers.h header for TUN/TAP testing")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 tools/testing/selftests/net/tuntap_helpers.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/tuntap_helpers.h b/tools/testing/selftests/net/tuntap_helpers.h
index d6c0437136ec..ac9b2da57a6d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/tuntap_helpers.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/tuntap_helpers.h
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static inline void build_udp_packet_csum(uint8_t *buf, int family,
 	sum += htons(IPPROTO_UDP) + udph->len;
 
 	if (!csum_off)
-		sum += add_csum(buf, udph->len);
+		sum += add_csum(buf, ntohs(udph->len));
 
 	udph->check = finish_ip_csum(sum);
If respinning: we probably should also do CSUM_MANGLED_0 conversion here.

And to zero udph->check first. All existing callers do. But the calloc in
patch 3/3 does not.
 }
-- 
2.53.0
  
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