[PATCH 5.15 186/935] net: cap advertised IP tunnel headroom

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 18:17:54
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
5.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Zhiling Zou <redacted>

commit 6b222adeb9340306e2ff97127c76117abb9b3df8 upstream.

IP tunnel devices derive their advertised needed_headroom from lower
output devices. A stack of user-created devices can make the derived
value larger than the 16-bit skb header offsets can represent. Once IP
output reserves it, skb head expansion can wrap those offsets.

The runtime transmit path already caps a growing needed_headroom at 512.
Apply the same cap when tunnel configuration publishes needed_headroom
derived from a lower output device.

Capping the advertised value is safe: IP tunnel transmit still expands
the skb when a packet needs more headroom. A nonsensical stacked
configuration can therefore incur an extra reallocation, but it cannot
publish an unbounded reservation to upper layers.

Fixes: 1a37e412a022 ("net: Use 16bits for *_headers fields of struct skbuff")
Cc: <redacted>
Reported-by: Vega <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ba04a1fd6bfae2377607fad5d8f80f7eb80fd4c4.1786542637.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai (local)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/net/ip_tunnels.h |   11 +++++++++--
 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c     |    2 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c       |    7 +++++--
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c    |    7 +++++--
 net/ipv6/sit.c           |    2 +-
 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/include/net/ip_tunnels.h
+++ b/include/net/ip_tunnels.h
@@ -470,8 +470,7 @@ struct metadata_dst *iptunnel_metadata_r
 int skb_tunnel_check_pmtu(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *encap_dst,
 			  int headroom, bool reply);
 
-static inline void ip_tunnel_adj_headroom(struct net_device *dev,
-					  unsigned int headroom)
+static inline unsigned int ip_tunnel_limit_headroom(unsigned int headroom)
 {
 	/* we must cap headroom to some upperlimit, else pskb_expand_head
 	 * will overflow header offsets in skb_headers_offset_update().
@@ -481,6 +480,14 @@ static inline void ip_tunnel_adj_headroo
 	if (headroom > max_allowed)
 		headroom = max_allowed;
 
+	return headroom;
+}
+
+static inline void ip_tunnel_adj_headroom(struct net_device *dev,
+					  unsigned int headroom)
+{
+	headroom = ip_tunnel_limit_headroom(headroom);
+
 	if (headroom > READ_ONCE(dev->needed_headroom))
 		WRITE_ONCE(dev->needed_headroom, headroom);
 }
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int ip_tunnel_bind_dev(struct net
 		mtu = min(tdev->mtu, IP_MAX_MTU);
 	}
 
-	dev->needed_headroom = t_hlen + hlen;
+	dev->needed_headroom = ip_tunnel_limit_headroom(t_hlen + hlen);
 	mtu -= t_hlen + (dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER ? dev->hard_header_len : 0);
 
 	if (mtu < IPV4_MIN_MTU)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1151,8 +1151,11 @@ static void ip6gre_tnl_link_config_route
 			return;
 
 		if (rt->dst.dev) {
-			dev->needed_headroom = rt->dst.dev->hard_header_len +
-					       t_hlen;
+			unsigned int headroom;
+
+			headroom = rt->dst.dev->hard_header_len + t_hlen;
+			headroom = ip_tunnel_limit_headroom(headroom);
+			dev->needed_headroom = headroom;
 
 			if (set_mtu) {
 				int mtu = rt->dst.dev->mtu - t_hlen;
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -1497,8 +1497,11 @@ static void ip6_tnl_link_config(struct i
 			tdev = __dev_get_by_index(t->net, p->link);
 
 		if (tdev) {
-			dev->needed_headroom = tdev->hard_header_len +
-				tdev->needed_headroom + t_hlen;
+			unsigned int headroom;
+
+			headroom = tdev->hard_header_len + tdev->needed_headroom;
+			headroom += t_hlen;
+			dev->needed_headroom = ip_tunnel_limit_headroom(headroom);
 			mtu = min_t(unsigned int, tdev->mtu, IP6_MAX_MTU);
 
 			mtu = mtu - t_hlen;
--- a/net/ipv6/sit.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c
@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ static void ipip6_tunnel_bind_dev(struct
 		WRITE_ONCE(dev->mtu, mtu);
 		hlen = tdev->hard_header_len + tdev->needed_headroom;
 	}
-	dev->needed_headroom = t_hlen + hlen;
+	dev->needed_headroom = ip_tunnel_limit_headroom(t_hlen + hlen);
 }
 
 static void ipip6_tunnel_update(struct ip_tunnel *t, struct ip_tunnel_parm *p,

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