From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Willem de Bruijn" <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
"Chris Arges" <carges@cloudflare.com>,
"Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>, "Phil Sutter" <phil@nwl.cc>,
"Jason Wang" <jasowangio@gmail.com>,
"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
"Xuan Zhuo" <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.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>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
"Max Krasnyansky" <maxk@qualcomm.com>,
"Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: [PATCH net v4 3/7] virtio_net: parse tunnel csum_start little-endian
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:49:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <421e7ebb8173ab919c2b90b945aaed462145583d.1792565282.git.mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be251d104f881a309cfef150455efa128ebb101d.1792565282.git.mst@redhat.com>
All tunnel related virtio features are > 32, so none of this
functionality can be enabled on legacy mixed-endian device.
Accordingly, all tunnel header fields, csum_start included, are
little-endian.
The nested virtio net header import parses csum_start that way, but the
inner transport offset is parsed with the endianness specified by the
interface.
If tun is misconfigured to legacy big-endian mode while the tunnel
features are enabled, the two parses of this field disagree, and the
value stored in skb->inner_transport_header - which is only
bounds-checked from below - can point past the end of the packet, where
GSO segmentation later dereferences it.
To fix, parse the field little-endian in both places.
Fixes: a2fb4bc4e2a6 ("net: implement virtio helpers to handle UDP GSO tunneling.")
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
include/linux/virtio_net.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
index d6466f96cdd0..013c6c7e2dea 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ virtio_net_hdr_tnl_to_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
inner_l3min = virtio_l3min(inner_isv6);
outer_l3min = ETH_HLEN + virtio_l3min(outer_isv6);
- inner_th = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_start);
+ inner_th = __virtio16_to_cpu(true, hdr->csum_start);
inner_nh = le16_to_cpu(vhdr->inner_nh_offset);
outer_th = le16_to_cpu(vhdr->outer_th_offset);
if (outer_th < outer_l3min ||
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 7:50 [PATCH net v4 0/7] more virtio-net csum hardening Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-10-21 7:49 ` [PATCH net v4 1/7] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-10-21 7:49 ` [PATCH net v4 2/7] um: vector: trim skbs before verifying the header Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-10-21 7:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2026-10-21 7:50 ` [PATCH net v4 4/7] net: resolve uncommon partial checksums at ingress Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-10-21 7:50 ` [PATCH net v4 5/7] net: add a sysctl to opt out of virtio net hdr checksum validation Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-10-21 7:50 ` [PATCH net v4 6/7] net: add ip4_parse() Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-10-21 7:50 ` [PATCH net v4 7/7] virtio_net: cleanup protocol calculation Michael S. Tsirkin
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