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From: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
To: Linkui Xiao <xiaolinkui@126.com>,
	idosch@nvidia.com, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
	kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
	tgraf@suug.ch
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linkui Xiao <xiaolinkui@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fib_rules: add FRA_GOTO and FRA_L3MDEV to fib_rule_nlmsg_size()
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:06:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <962171df-34e5-4c98-bd09-8cc7f8caf3bd@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260911071241.2701784-1-xiaolinkui@126.com>

On 9/11/26 2:12 AM, Linkui Xiao wrote:
> From: Linkui Xiao <xiaolinkui@kylinos.cn>
> 
> fib_nl_fill_rule() emits FRA_GOTO and FRA_L3MDEV, but
> fib_rule_nlmsg_size() reserves room for neither. Its only caller,
> notify_rule_change(), allocates the notification skb with that size and
> treats a failure as a bug:
> 
> 	/* -EMSGSIZE implies BUG in fib_rule_nlmsg_size() */

not really going to fail since the size has so many attributes that are
not applicable to this rule.

> 
> A rule that has both a goto target and l3mdev set needs 16 more bytes
> than are reserved. nlmsg_new() rounds the allocation up through
> SKB_DATA_ALIGN(), so the slack hides the mistake most of the time and
> the bug stays latent, but the accounting is wrong and the notification
> can still fail with -EMSGSIZE.
> 
> Reserve the two missing attributes, keeping the order used by
> fib_nl_fill_rule().
> 
> Fixes: 0947c9fe56d9 ("[NET] fib_rules: goto rule action")
> Fixes: 96c63fa7393d ("net: Add l3mdev rule")
> Signed-off-by: Linkui Xiao <xiaolinkui@kylinos.cn>
> ---
>  net/core/fib_rules.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/fib_rules.c b/net/core/fib_rules.c
> index 7df216c17c67..5e84bc740191 100644
> --- a/net/core/fib_rules.c
> +++ b/net/core/fib_rules.c
> @@ -1133,7 +1133,9 @@ static inline size_t fib_rule_nlmsg_size(struct fib_rules_ops *ops,
>  			 + nla_total_size(4) /* FRA_SUPPRESS_IFGROUP */
>  			 + nla_total_size(4) /* FRA_FWMARK */
>  			 + nla_total_size(4) /* FRA_FWMASK */
> +			 + nla_total_size(4) /* FRA_GOTO */
>  			 + nla_total_size_64bit(8) /* FRA_TUN_ID */
> +			 + nla_total_size(1) /* FRA_L3MDEV */
>  			 + nla_total_size(sizeof(struct fib_kuid_range))
>  			 + nla_total_size(1) /* FRA_PROTOCOL */
>  			 + nla_total_size(1) /* FRA_IP_PROTO */



      reply	other threads:[~2026-09-13  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-11  7:12 Linkui Xiao
2026-09-13  1:06 ` David Ahern [this message]

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