This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: avoid skb_warn_bad_offload on IS_ERR to the 4.14-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-avoid-skb_warn_bad_offload-on-is_err.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8d74e9f88d65af8bb2e095aff506aa6eac755ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:39:04 -0500 Subject: net: avoid skb_warn_bad_offload on IS_ERR From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8d74e9f88d65af8bb2e095aff506aa6eac755ada upstream. skb_warn_bad_offload warns when packets enter the GSO stack that require skb_checksum_help or vice versa. Do not warn on arbitrary bad packets. Packet sockets can craft many. Syzkaller was able to demonstrate another one with eth_type games. In particular, suppress the warning when segmentation returns an error, which is for reasons other than checksum offload. See also commit 36c92474498a ("net: WARN if skb_checksum_help() is called on skb requiring segmentation") for context on this warning. Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2792,7 +2792,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__skb_gso_segment(struct segs = skb_mac_gso_segment(skb, features); - if (unlikely(skb_needs_check(skb, tx_path))) + if (unlikely(skb_needs_check(skb, tx_path) && !IS_ERR(segs))) skb_warn_bad_offload(skb); return segs; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from willemb@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/net-avoid-skb_warn_bad_offload-on-is_err.patch