From: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
To: "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>, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
David Lebrun <david.lebrun@uclouvain.be>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Mathieu Xhonneux <m.xhonneux@gmail.com>,
David Lebrun <dlebrun@google.com>,
Hangbin Liu <hangbin.liu@linux.dev>,
Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano@uniroma2.it>,
Andrea Mayer <andrea@common-net.org>,
Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/6] seg6: fix skb checksum update helpers
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:50:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261031225033.64-2-andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261031225033.64-1-andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
With CHECKSUM_COMPLETE, ipv6_srh_rcv() updates skb->csum for the new
Segments Left and destination address through seg6_update_csum().
Replacing "from" with "to" in the packet must change skb->csum (C) to
C - from + to, but update_csum_diff4() and update_csum_diff16() compute:
~csum_partial({ ~from, to }, ~C) = ~(~C + ~from + to) = C + from - to
This does not affect packets forwarded by ip6_forward(), which sets
ip_summed to CHECKSUM_NONE. But when the packet is delivered on the same
node and skb->csum was computed in software, for instance by conntrack, UDP
can drop the packet as a checksum error. With skb->csum computed by the
device, TCP can instead log a "hw csum failure", as if the device had
computed a wrong skb->csum.
Fix update_csum_diff4() and update_csum_diff16() to compute C - from + to.
Found by manual code inspection, while checking that the skb->csum updates
in the SRv6 receive path are consistent. A following commit adds a selftest
that reproduces the problem with a tc ct action. The issue was confirmed in
a VM without kernel changes or error injection: with the rest of this
series and without this patch, that selftest fails, as UDP drops datagrams
as checksum errors. Also tested against the srv6 selftests, and with a
ConnectX-6 Lx NIC (mlx5) that provides CHECKSUM_COMPLETE.
Fixes: 1ababeba4a21 ("ipv6: implement dataplane support for rthdr type 4 (Segment Routing Header)")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
---
include/net/seg6.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/seg6.h b/include/net/seg6.h
index 82b3fbbcbb93..01d8034e48fc 100644
--- a/include/net/seg6.h
+++ b/include/net/seg6.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ static inline void update_csum_diff4(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 from,
{
__be32 diff[] = { ~from, to };
- skb->csum = ~csum_partial((char *)diff, sizeof(diff), ~skb->csum);
+ skb->csum = csum_partial(diff, sizeof(diff), skb->csum);
}
static inline void update_csum_diff16(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 *from,
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ static inline void update_csum_diff16(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 *from,
to[0], to[1], to[2], to[3],
};
- skb->csum = ~csum_partial((char *)diff, sizeof(diff), ~skb->csum);
+ skb->csum = csum_partial(diff, sizeof(diff), skb->csum);
}
struct seg6_pernet_data {
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-31 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-31 22:50 [PATCH net 0/6] seg6: fix skb checksum updates with CHECKSUM_COMPLETE Andrea Mayer
2026-10-31 22:50 ` Andrea Mayer [this message]
2026-11-03 1:25 ` [PATCH net 1/6] seg6: fix skb checksum update helpers Hangbin Liu
2026-10-31 22:50 ` [PATCH net 2/6] seg6: update skb checksum when ipv6_srh_rcv() decrements the Hop Limit Andrea Mayer
2026-11-03 1:27 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-10-31 22:50 ` [PATCH net 3/6] seg6: update skb checksum when SRv6 behaviors advance to the next SID Andrea Mayer
2026-11-03 2:15 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-10-31 22:50 ` [PATCH net 4/6] seg6: discard CHECKSUM_COMPLETE after the End.BPF program Andrea Mayer
2026-11-03 2:28 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-10-31 22:50 ` [PATCH net 5/6] seg6: account for the MAC header in skb checksum on L2 encapsulation Andrea Mayer
2026-11-03 2:37 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-10-31 22:50 ` [PATCH net 6/6] selftests: seg6: add test for skb checksum with CHECKSUM_COMPLETE Andrea Mayer
2026-11-03 3:26 ` Hangbin Liu
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