Re: [PATCH net v2] net: tighten bad gso csum offset check in virtio_net_hdr

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Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 05:35:35PM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The referenced commit drops bad input, but has false positives.
> > Tighten the check to avoid these.
> > 
> > The check detects illegal checksum offload requests, which produce
> > csum_start/csum_off beyond end of packet after segmentation.
> > 
> > But it is based on two incorrect assumptions:
> > 
> > 1. virtio_net_hdr_to_skb with VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCP[46] implies GSO.
> > True in callers that inject into the tx path, such as tap.
> > But false in callers that inject into rx, like virtio-net.
> > Here, the flags indicate GRO, and CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY or
> > CHECKSUM_NONE without VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM is normal.
> > 
> > 2. TSO requires checksum offload, i.e., ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL.
> > False, as tcp[46]_gso_segment will fix up csum_start and offset for
> > all other ip_summed by calling __tcp_v4_send_check.
> > 
> > Because of 2, we can limit the scope of the fix to virtio_net_hdr
> > that do try to set these fields, with a bogus value.
> >
> 
> I see it is already queued and extremely sorry for not testing and getting
> back earlier. Good news: it does fix the issue in my setup(same as reported
> at [1])
> 
> So, FWIW,
> 
> Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>

That is great to hear. Thanks for reporting your results, Sudeep.




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