From: Anton Danilov <littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowangio@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2] tun: use pskb_may_pull_reason() and remove SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 16:23:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003132340.4175269-1-littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com> (raw)
tun_get_user() is the only user of SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC. It sets
it when pskb_may_pull() fails to pull the Ethernet header of a frame
written to a TAP device.
pskb_may_pull_reason() reports why the pull failed: PKT_TOO_SMALL if
the packet is shorter than requested, NOMEM if pulling the data into
the linear area fails. Use it for both header pulls in tun_get_user(),
on TAP and on TUN devices, and remove the now unused
SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC. The pull of the IP version byte on a TUN
device with IFF_NO_PI was reported as NOT_SPECIFIED and now reports
PKT_TOO_SMALL, for example when only the virtio-net header is written.
After a successful pull drop_reason is SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET. The later
error paths without a reason of their own, the unknown IP version on
TUN and the path that finds the queue detached, relied on the
SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED initializer. Fall back to
SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED at the free_skb label, as vxlan_rcv()
does, so that these paths, and any later one without a reason of its
own, keep reporting it.
The errors returned to user space do not change.
Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260923145931.GA2859441@shredder/
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Anton Danilov <littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com>
---
v2:
- Also convert the pull of the IP version byte on TUN devices (Willem).
- Dropped the Reviewed-by tags, as the IFF_TUN conversion is new.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261001093925.3529772-1-littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com/
drivers/net/tun.c | 8 +++++---
include/net/dropreason-core.h | 7 -------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 5a302709a68a..9fe2dfd173ad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1908,7 +1908,8 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
if (tun->flags & IFF_NO_PI) {
u8 ip_version;
- if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, 1)) {
+ drop_reason = pskb_may_pull_reason(skb, 1);
+ if (drop_reason) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto drop;
}
@@ -1932,9 +1933,9 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
skb->dev = tun->dev;
break;
case IFF_TAP:
- if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN)) {
+ drop_reason = pskb_may_pull_reason(skb, ETH_HLEN);
+ if (drop_reason) {
err = -ENOMEM;
- drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC;
goto drop;
}
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, tun->dev);
@@ -2062,6 +2063,7 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc(tun->dev);
free_skb:
+ drop_reason = drop_reason ?: SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;
if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(skb))
kfree_skb_reason(skb, drop_reason);
diff --git a/include/net/dropreason-core.h b/include/net/dropreason-core.h
index 12f909651591..47b44a29daab 100644
--- a/include/net/dropreason-core.h
+++ b/include/net/dropreason-core.h
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@
FN(DEV_READY) \
FN(FULL_RING) \
FN(NOMEM) \
- FN(HDR_TRUNC) \
FN(TAP_FILTER) \
FN(TAP_TXFILTER) \
FN(ICMP_CSUM) \
@@ -427,12 +426,6 @@ enum skb_drop_reason {
SKB_DROP_REASON_FULL_RING,
/** @SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM: error due to OOM */
SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM,
- /**
- * @SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC: failed to trunc/extract the header from
- * networking data, e.g., failed to pull the protocol header from
- * frags via pskb_may_pull()
- */
- SKB_DROP_REASON_HDR_TRUNC,
/**
* @SKB_DROP_REASON_TAP_FILTER: dropped by (ebpf) filter directly attached
* to tun/tap, e.g., via TUNSETFILTEREBPF
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-03 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-03 13:23 Anton Danilov [this message]
2026-10-03 18:39 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-04 7:27 ` Ido Schimmel
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