Commit de788d8a7032 for kernel
commit de788d8a7032475f900c16e9cc0c1417f4f719eb
Author: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
Date: Wed Oct 28 18:13:50 2026 +0100
gro: do not GRO GSO packets with inconsistent payload
tcp_gro_receive() excludes empty non-GSO packets with the unsigned
len - 1 check, but its GSO branch only checks that gso_size matches
the held packet's MSS. A trusted TCP GSO skb can reach GRO again with
no payload after TC pedit increases its TCP data offset.
If the skb is fully linear, skb_gro_receive() then enters its fragment
transfer path with nr_frags == 0. The do-while loop copies skb_frag_t
entries backwards beyond both fragment arrays. An unprivileged process
using its own user and network namespaces can trigger a KASAN
slab-out-of-bounds write and panic through veth, pedit and GRE.
More generally, the payload of such a packet can be shrunk to any
value, making it inconsistent with its gso_segs, and a GSO packet
with gso_segs == 0 contributes no segment to the GRO packet.
Do not aggregate GSO packets with gso_segs == 0, and require the
payload of GSO packets to be consistent with gso_segs and gso_size,
the last segment being allowed to be short. This rejects the empty
skb before either TCP merge helper, and covers both IPv4 and IPv6.
Fixes: 5eddb24901ee ("gro: add support of (hw)gro packets to gro stack")
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
[edumazet: check payload against gso_segs, refuse gso_segs == 0]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261028171350.2205175-1-edumazet@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
diff --git a/net/core/gro.c b/net/core/gro.c
index ff828a3dce3c..1b033855a20d 100644
--- a/net/core/gro.c
+++ b/net/core/gro.c
@@ -513,9 +513,10 @@ static enum gro_result dev_gro_receive(struct gro_node *gro,
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->count = 1;
if (unlikely(skb_is_gso(skb))) {
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->count = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs;
- /* Only support TCP and non DODGY users. */
+ /* Only support TCP and non DODGY users, with a sane gso_segs. */
if (!skb_is_gso_tcp(skb) ||
- (skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_DODGY))
+ (skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_DODGY) ||
+ !NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->count)
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = 1;
}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
index e74d99ca9fac..b84fcd07c723 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
@@ -315,14 +315,20 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_gro_receive(struct list_head *head, struct sk_buff *skb,
mss = skb_shinfo(p)->gso_size;
- /* If skb is a GRO packet, make sure its gso_size matches prior packet mss.
+ /* If skb is a GRO packet, make sure its gso_size matches prior packet
+ * mss, and that its payload is consistent with its gso_segs
+ * (the last segment can be short).
* If it is a single frame, do not aggregate it if its length
* is bigger than our mss.
*/
- if (unlikely(skb_is_gso(skb)))
+ if (unlikely(skb_is_gso(skb))) {
+ unsigned int segs = NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->count;
+
flush |= (mss != skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size);
- else
+ flush |= len <= (segs - 1) * mss || len > segs * mss;
+ } else {
flush |= (len - 1) >= mss;
+ }
flush |= (ntohl(th2->seq) + skb_gro_len(p)) ^ ntohl(th->seq);
flush |= skb_cmp_decrypted(p, skb);