From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>,
"Broadcom internal kernel review list"
<bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.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>,
"Felix Fietkau" <nbd@openwrt.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH net v3] net: bgmac: fix RX frame length check
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:31:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261029173122.29636-1-rosenp@gmail.com> (raw)
While reviewing commit 77dac783f113
("net: bgmac: rate limit RX error messages"), Florian spotted that the RX
length sanity check compares the length reported in the RX header against
BGMAC_RX_ALLOC_SIZE. That is the size of the whole fragment, including the
space reserved for struct skb_shared_info. The data area handed to the
hardware is only BGMAC_RX_BUF_SIZE bytes, and the frame starts
BGMAC_RX_FRAME_OFFSET bytes into it, so at most BGMAC_RX_MAX_FRAME_SIZE
bytes of a frame fit in one RX buffer.
A corrupted length between those two limits passes the check, and the
following skb_put() runs past the skb tailroom and calls
skb_over_panic() instead of dropping the frame.
The check has no lower bound either. A length below ETH_FCS_LEN wraps
when the FCS is subtracted, so skb_put() asks for almost 64 KiB and hits
the same skb_over_panic(). A length that leaves less than an Ethernet
header makes eth_type_trans() parse bytes the hardware never wrote.
Reject lengths below ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN or above
BGMAC_RX_MAX_FRAME_SIZE, and print the bad length.
Only compile tested. Not tested on hardware.
Fixes: 6a6c708469c9 ("bgmac: add check for oversized packets")
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
---
v3: add a lower bound
v2: replace Suggested-by with description.
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
index 669eb7ce7d40..b5e1d3c0003d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
@@ -460,10 +460,11 @@ static int bgmac_dma_rx_read(struct bgmac *bgmac, struct bgmac_dma_ring *ring,
break;
}
- if (len > BGMAC_RX_ALLOC_SIZE) {
+ if (len < ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN ||
+ len > BGMAC_RX_MAX_FRAME_SIZE) {
if (net_ratelimit())
- netdev_err(bgmac->net_dev, "Found oversized packet at slot %d, DMA issue!\n",
- ring->start);
+ netdev_err(bgmac->net_dev, "Found packet with invalid length %u at slot %d, DMA issue!\n",
+ len, ring->start);
put_page(virt_to_head_page(buf));
bgmac->net_dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
bgmac->net_dev->stats.rx_errors++;
--
2.56.0
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