This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices without visible hard header
to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-packet-fix-packet-receive-on-l3-devices-without-visible-hard-header.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Dec 2 10:40:54 AM CET 2020
From: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:28:17 +0200
Subject: net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices without visible hard header
From: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit d549699048b4b5c22dd710455bcdb76966e55aa3 ]
In the patchset merged by commit b9fcf0a0d826
("Merge branch 'support-AF_PACKET-for-layer-3-devices'") L3 devices which
did not have header_ops were given one for the purpose of protocol parsing
on af_packet transmit path.
That change made af_packet receive path regard these devices as having a
visible L3 header and therefore aligned incoming skb->data to point to the
skb's mac_header. Some devices, such as ipip, xfrmi, and others, do not
reset their mac_header prior to ingress and therefore their incoming
packets became malformed.
Ideally these devices would reset their mac headers, or af_packet would be
able to rely on dev->hard_header_len being 0 for such cases, but it seems
this is not the case.
Fix by changing af_packet RX ll visibility criteria to include the
existence of a '.create()' header operation, which is used when creating
a device hard header - via dev_hard_header() - by upper layers, and does
not exist in these L3 devices.
As this predicate may be useful in other situations, add it as a common
dev_has_header() helper in netdevice.h.
Fixes: b9fcf0a0d826 ("Merge branch 'support-AF_PACKET-for-layer-3-devices'")
Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201121062817.3178900-1-eyal.birger@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 5 +++++
net/packet/af_packet.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3103,6 +3103,11 @@ static inline bool dev_validate_header(c
return false;
}
+static inline bool dev_has_header(const struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ return dev->header_ops && dev->header_ops->create;
+}
+
typedef int gifconf_func_t(struct net_device * dev, char __user * bufptr,
int len, int size);
int register_gifconf(unsigned int family, gifconf_func_t *gifconf);
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -93,38 +93,42 @@
/*
Assumptions:
- - if device has no dev->hard_header routine, it adds and removes ll header
- inside itself. In this case ll header is invisible outside of device,
- but higher levels still should reserve dev->hard_header_len.
- Some devices are enough clever to reallocate skb, when header
- will not fit to reserved space (tunnel), another ones are silly
- (PPP).
+ - If the device has no dev->header_ops->create, there is no LL header
+ visible above the device. In this case, its hard_header_len should be 0.
+ The device may prepend its own header internally. In this case, its
+ needed_headroom should be set to the space needed for it to add its
+ internal header.
+ For example, a WiFi driver pretending to be an Ethernet driver should
+ set its hard_header_len to be the Ethernet header length, and set its
+ needed_headroom to be (the real WiFi header length - the fake Ethernet
+ header length).
- packet socket receives packets with pulled ll header,
so that SOCK_RAW should push it back.
On receive:
-----------
-Incoming, dev->hard_header!=NULL
+Incoming, dev_has_header(dev) == true
mac_header -> ll header
data -> data
-Outgoing, dev->hard_header!=NULL
+Outgoing, dev_has_header(dev) == true
mac_header -> ll header
data -> ll header
-Incoming, dev->hard_header==NULL
- mac_header -> UNKNOWN position. It is very likely, that it points to ll
- header. PPP makes it, that is wrong, because introduce
- assymetry between rx and tx paths.
+Incoming, dev_has_header(dev) == false
+ mac_header -> data
+ However drivers often make it point to the ll header.
+ This is incorrect because the ll header should be invisible to us.
data -> data
-Outgoing, dev->hard_header==NULL
- mac_header -> data. ll header is still not built!
+Outgoing, dev_has_header(dev) == false
+ mac_header -> data. ll header is invisible to us.
data -> data
Resume
- If dev->hard_header==NULL we are unlikely to restore sensible ll header.
+ If dev_has_header(dev) == false we are unable to restore the ll header,
+ because it is invisible to us.
On transmit:
@@ -2066,7 +2070,7 @@ static int packet_rcv(struct sk_buff *sk
skb->dev = dev;
- if (dev->header_ops) {
+ if (dev_has_header(dev)) {
/* The device has an explicit notion of ll header,
* exported to higher levels.
*
@@ -2195,7 +2199,7 @@ static int tpacket_rcv(struct sk_buff *s
if (!net_eq(dev_net(dev), sock_net(sk)))
goto drop;
- if (dev->header_ops) {
+ if (dev_has_header(dev)) {
if (sk->sk_type != SOCK_DGRAM)
skb_push(skb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb));
else if (skb->pkt_type == PACKET_OUTGOING) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eyal.birger@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.9/net-packet-fix-packet-receive-on-l3-devices-without-visible-hard-header.patch
