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* [PATCH net v5 0/4] ipmr: forward GSO multicast packets
@ 2026-11-14 18:26 Julius Bairaktaris
  2026-11-14 18:26 ` [PATCH net v5 1/4] net: make room for the tunnel header in skb_segment_list() Julius Bairaktaris
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From: Julius Bairaktaris @ 2026-11-14 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
  Cc: davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, horms, dsahern, idosch, willemb,
	steffen.klassert, jiayuan.chen, mfleming, almasrymina, bigeasy,
	richardbgobert, ecree.xilinx, bsdhenrymartin, linux-kernel

With fraglist GRO or UDP GRO forwarding on, a routed IPv4 multicast
stream arrives as GSO packets. ipmr_prepare_xmit() drops every DF
aggregate larger than the MTU, and ip_encap() sets no tunnel GSO state,
so a GSO packet sent to a VIFF_TUNNEL vif is dropped during
segmentation. With that state set, a fraglist aggregate reaches
skb_segment_list() with tunnel headers, which can write before the head
of a frag_list member; this also happens today when such a packet is
routed into a tunnel device. Checking the segment length instead of
skb->len relies on skb_gso_transport_seglen(), which counts the inner
UDP header of an encapsulated UDP GSO packet 8 bytes short.

Patch 1 makes room for the tunnel headers in skb_segment_list().
Patch 2 counts the inner UDP header of encapsulated UDP GSO packets.
Patch 3 sets up IPXIP4 GSO state, outer IP IDs and length in ip_encap().
Patch 4 lets DF GSO packets pass when their segments fit the MTU.

Tested in QEMU (KVM, KASAN and lockdep) on veth, 3 runs each on net
(30c71476d842) and with this series: an MFC entry to a plain vif and a
tunnel vif, 40 x 1316-byte datagrams per GSO packet, 4000 datagrams per
arm, UDP_SEGMENT, fraglist GRO and UDP GRO forwarding, DF set and clear,
software and device segmentation on egress:
- net: every DF aggregate dropped on both vifs (FragFails 2 per
  aggregate), and with software segmentation nothing arrives over the
  tunnel vif; fraglist GRO routed into VXLAN reports a KASAN
  slab-out-of-bounds write in skb_segment_list(), then panics.
- this series, all 12 arms: 4000 of 4000 datagrams on the plain vif,
  FragFails 0; on the tunnel vif 4000 of 4000 IPIP packets with unique
  outer IDs with software segmentation, and the 100 GSO packets of 52688
  bytes whole with device segmentation.
- VXLAN with DF, 1404-byte outer segments, route MTU 1400: net forwards
  all 1000 segments at 1404 bytes through ip_forward(); with this series
  none leave, through ip_forward() or the MFC entry, and FragFails
  counts them.
- a GRE GSO packet (skb->encapsulation set) multicast-routed to both
  vifs, 50 packets: all 1000 segments on the plain vif; none on the
  tunnel vif, whose pkt_out stays at 0 (v4 counted 50).
- fraglist GRO routed into VXLAN and IPIP with software segmentation:
  every segment reaches the peer, no KASAN report.

Changes in v5:
- Patch 3: drop an already encapsulated GSO packet in
  ipmr_prepare_xmit() before the route lookup, so the vif does not count
  it, and call iptunnel_handle_offloads() without error handling, since
  skb_cow() leaves no header to unclone (Eric Dumazet, Sashiko). Simon's
  Reviewed-by stays, as this is the change Eric asked for.
- Outer tot_len 0 (Eric): 50 x 1310-byte datagrams merged by UDP GRO
  forwarding make a 65528-byte packet, so the outer header gets tot_len
  0 from iph_set_totlen(); before, htons() truncated it to 12. In 3 runs
  nft ip forward chains still match it with meta l4proto 4 and
  ip protocol 4 (100 of 100), while a netdev egress chain on the output
  device does not match meta l4proto 4 (0 of 100), as
  nft_set_pktinfo_ipv4_validate() takes the length from iph_totlen().
  All 5000 segments reach the peer, with software and device
  segmentation.
- skb_gso_transport_seglen() also leaves out the inner SCTP header of
  an encapsulated SCTP GSO packet (Sashiko on patch 2). That predates
  this series, and multicast routing does not see such packets:
  sctp_v4_addr_valid() and sctp_v4_available() reject multicast
  addresses.
- Rebase onto net.
- v4: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cover.1792838740.git.julius@bairaktaris.de/

Changes in v4:
- Add patch 2 (Sashiko).
- Patch 3: drop GSO packets that are already encapsulated, and set the
  outer length with iph_set_totlen() (Sashiko).
- Drop v3 patch 2 (TCP fixed-ID flag on encapsulation): multicast
  routing does not carry TCP, and the flag also needs the decap and
  GRE/UDP segmentation paths, which go to a separate series (Sashiko).
- Rebase onto net.
- v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cover.1792293419.git.julius@bairaktaris.de/

Changes in v3:
- Patch 1: name the VXLAN out-of-bounds write (Sashiko).
- Add patch 2 (Sashiko).
- Patch 3: reserve one outer IP ID per segment (Sashiko).
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261011162957.1328474-1-julius@bairaktaris.de/

Changes in v2:
- Add patches 1 and 3; v1 let DF GSO packets reach ip_encap() on tunnel
  vifs, where they were dropped during segmentation (Sashiko).
- Keep the additive MTU comparison and check mtu > encap before
  subtracting, so a route MTU below 20 cannot wrap (Sashiko).
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261010131842.2157365-1-julius@bairaktaris.de/

I used Claude (Anthropic) to help write these patches.

Julius Bairaktaris (4):
  net: make room for the tunnel header in skb_segment_list()
  net: gso: count the inner UDP header of encapsulated UDP GSO packets
  ipmr: set up GSO state for tunnel vifs
  ipmr: do not drop GSO packets that fit the MTU after segmentation

 net/core/gso.c    |  2 ++
 net/core/skbuff.c |  4 ++++
 net/ipv4/ipmr.c   | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


base-commit: 30c71476d842b094651bd7712f6c8ee8716147d0
-- 
2.53.0


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