linux/net/core, branch v6.16

net: selftests: fix TCP packet checksum

2025-06-26T08:50:49Z

The length in the pseudo header should be the length of the L3 payload AKA the L4 header+payload. The selftest code builds the packet from the lower layers up, so all the headers are pushed already when it constructs L4. We need to subtract the lower layer headers from skb->len. Fixes: 3e1e58d64c3d ("net: add generic selftest support") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Gerhard Engleder Reported-by: Oleksij Rempel Tested-by: Oleksij Rempel Reviewed-by: Oleksij Rempel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250624183258.3377740-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming

2025-06-23T20:14:51Z

commit f1fce08e63fe ("netpoll: Eliminate redundant assignment") removed the initialization of the UDP checksum, which was wrong and broke netpoll IPv6 transmission due to bad checksumming. udph->check needs to be set before calling csum_ipv6_magic(). Fixes: f1fce08e63fe ("netpoll: Eliminate redundant assignment") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250620-netpoll_fix-v1-1-f9f0b82bc059@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: netmem: fix skb_ensure_writable with unreadable skbs

2025-06-17T22:48:20Z

skb_ensure_writable should succeed when it's trying to write to the header of the unreadable skbs, so it doesn't need an unconditional skb_frags_readable check. The preceding pskb_may_pull() call will succeed if write_len is within the head and fail if we're trying to write to the unreadable payload, so we don't need an additional check. Removing this check restores DSCP functionality with unreadable skbs as it's called from dscp_tg. Cc: willemb@google.com Cc: asml.silence@gmail.com Fixes: 65249feb6b3d ("net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags") Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250615200733.520113-1-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-6.16-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-06-12T16:50:36Z

Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski: "Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. Current release - regressions: - af_unix: allow passing cred for embryo without SO_PASSCRED/SO_PASSPIDFD Current release - new code bugs: - eth: airoha: correct enable mask for RX queues 16-31 - veth: prevent NULL pointer dereference in veth_xdp_rcv when peer disappears under traffic - ipv6: move fib6_config_validate() to ip6_route_add(), prevent invalid routes Previous releases - regressions: - phy: phy_caps: don't skip better duplex match on non-exact match - dsa: b53: fix untagged traffic sent via cpu tagged with VID 0 - Revert "wifi: mwifiex: Fix HT40 bandwidth issue.", it caused transient packet loss, exact reason not fully understood, yet Previous releases - always broken: - net: clear the dst when BPF is changing skb protocol (IPv4 <> IPv6) - sched: sfq: fix a potential crash on gso_skb handling - Bluetooth: intel: improve rx buffer posting to avoid causing issues in the firmware - eth: intel: i40e: make reset handling robust against multiple requests - eth: mlx5: ensure FW pages are always allocated on the local NUMA node, even when device is configure to 'serve' another node - wifi: ath12k: fix GCC_GCC_PCIE_HOT_RST definition for WCN7850, prevent kernel crashes - wifi: ath11k: avoid burning CPU in ath11k_debugfs_fw_stats_request() for 3 sec if fw_stats_done is not set" * tag 'net-6.16-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (70 commits) selftests: drv-net: rss_ctx: Add test for ntuple rules targeting default RSS context net: ethtool: Don't check if RSS context exists in case of context 0 af_unix: Allow passing cred for embryo without SO_PASSCRED/SO_PASSPIDFD. ipv6: Move fib6_config_validate() to ip6_route_add(). net: drv: netdevsim: don't napi_complete() from netpoll net/mlx5: HWS, Add error checking to hws_bwc_rule_complex_hash_node_get() veth: prevent NULL pointer dereference in veth_xdp_rcv net_sched: remove qdisc_tree_flush_backlog() net_sched: ets: fix a race in ets_qdisc_change() net_sched: tbf: fix a race in tbf_change() net_sched: red: fix a race in __red_change() net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune() net_sched: sch_sfq: reject invalid perturb period net: phy: phy_caps: Don't skip better duplex macth on non-exact match MAINTAINERS: Update Kuniyuki Iwashima's email address. selftests: net: add test case for NAT46 looping back dst net: clear the dst when changing skb protocol net/mlx5e: Fix number of lanes to UNKNOWN when using data_rate_oper net/mlx5e: Fix leak of Geneve TLV option object net/mlx5: HWS, make sure the uplink is the last destination ...

net: clear the dst when changing skb protocol

2025-06-12T00:02:29Z

A not-so-careful NAT46 BPF program can crash the kernel if it indiscriminately flips ingress packets from v4 to v6: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 ip6_rcv_core (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:190:20) ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:306:8) process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6186:4) napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6906:9) net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7028:13) do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:462:3) netif_rx (net/core/dev.c:5326:3) dev_loopback_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4015:2) ip_mc_finish_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:363:8) NF_HOOK (./include/linux/netfilter.h:314:9) ip_mc_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:400:5) dst_output (./include/net/dst.h:459:9) ip_local_out (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:130:9) ip_send_skb (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1496:8) udp_send_skb (net/ipv4/udp.c:1040:8) udp_sendmsg (net/ipv4/udp.c:1328:10) The output interface has a 4->6 program attached at ingress. We try to loop the multicast skb back to the sending socket. Ingress BPF runs as part of netif_rx(), pushes a valid v6 hdr and changes skb->protocol to v6. We enter ip6_rcv_core which tries to use skb_dst(). But the dst is still an IPv4 one left after IPv4 mcast output. Clear the dst in all BPF helpers which change the protocol. Try to preserve metadata dsts, those may carry non-routing metadata. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Fixes: d219df60a70e ("bpf: Add ipip6 and ip6ip decap support for bpf_skb_adjust_room()") Fixes: 1b00e0dfe7d0 ("bpf: update skb->protocol in bpf_skb_net_grow") Fixes: 6578171a7ff0 ("bpf: add bpf_skb_change_proto helper") Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250610001245.1981782-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37Z

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

net: prevent a NULL deref in rtnl_create_link()

2025-06-05T15:03:00Z

At the time rtnl_create_link() is running, dev->netdev_ops is NULL, we must not use netdev_lock_ops() or risk a NULL deref if CONFIG_NET_SHAPER is defined. Use netif_set_group() instead of dev_set_group(). RIP: 0010:netdev_need_ops_lock include/net/netdev_lock.h:33 [inline] RIP: 0010:netdev_lock_ops include/net/netdev_lock.h:41 [inline] RIP: 0010:dev_set_group+0xc0/0x230 net/core/dev_api.c:82 Call Trace: rtnl_create_link+0x748/0xd10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3674 rtnl_newlink_create+0x25c/0xb00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3813 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3940 [inline] rtnl_newlink+0x16d6/0x1c70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4055 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7cf/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6944 netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2534 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1313 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x75b/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1883 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline] Reported-by: syzbot+9fc858ba0312b42b577e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6840265f.a00a0220.d4325.0009.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Fixes: 7e4d784f5810 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during rtnetlink operations") Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250604105815.1516973-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: annotate data-races around cleanup_net_task

2025-06-05T15:02:26Z

from_cleanup_net() reads cleanup_net_task locklessly. Add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations to avoid a potential KCSAN warning, even if the race is harmless. Fixes: 0734d7c3d93c ("net: expedite synchronize_net() for cleanup_net()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250604093928.1323333-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bpf: Fix L4 csum update on IPv6 in CHECKSUM_COMPLETE

2025-05-31T02:53:51Z

In Cilium, we use bpf_csum_diff + bpf_l4_csum_replace to, among other things, update the L4 checksum after reverse SNATing IPv6 packets. That use case is however not currently supported and leads to invalid skb->csum values in some cases. This patch adds support for IPv6 address changes in bpf_l4_csum_update via a new flag. When calling bpf_l4_csum_replace in Cilium, it ends up calling inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff: 1: void inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff(__sum16 *sum, struct sk_buff *skb, 2: __wsum diff, bool pseudohdr) 3: { 4: if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) { 5: csum_replace_by_diff(sum, diff); 6: if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_COMPLETE && pseudohdr) 7: skb->csum = ~csum_sub(diff, skb->csum); 8: } else if (pseudohdr) { 9: *sum = ~csum_fold(csum_add(diff, csum_unfold(*sum))); 10: } 11: } The bug happens when we're in the CHECKSUM_COMPLETE state. We've just updated one of the IPv6 addresses. The helper now updates the L4 header checksum on line 5. Next, it updates skb->csum on line 7. It shouldn't. For an IPv6 packet, the updates of the IPv6 address and of the L4 checksum will cancel each other. The checksums are set such that computing a checksum over the packet including its checksum will result in a sum of 0. So the same is true here when we update the L4 checksum on line 5. We'll update it as to cancel the previous IPv6 address update. Hence skb->csum should remain untouched in this case. The same bug doesn't affect IPv4 packets because, in that case, three fields are updated: the IPv4 address, the IP checksum, and the L4 checksum. The change to the IPv4 address and one of the checksums still cancel each other in skb->csum, but we're left with one checksum update and should therefore update skb->csum accordingly. That's exactly what inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff does. This special case for IPv6 L4 checksums is also described atop inet_proto_csum_replace16, the function we should be using in this case. This patch introduces a new bpf_l4_csum_replace flag, BPF_F_IPV6, to indicate that we're updating the L4 checksum of an IPv6 packet. When the flag is set, inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff will skip the skb->csum update. Fixes: 7d672345ed295 ("bpf: add generic bpf_csum_diff helper") Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Link: https://patch.msgid.link/96a6bc3a443e6f0b21ff7b7834000e17fb549e05.1748509484.git.paul.chaignon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Fix checksum update for ILA adj-transport

2025-05-31T02:53:51Z

During ILA address translations, the L4 checksums can be handled in different ways. One of them, adj-transport, consist in parsing the transport layer and updating any found checksum. This logic relies on inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff and produces an incorrect skb->csum when in state CHECKSUM_COMPLETE. This bug can be reproduced with a simple ILA to SIR mapping, assuming packets are received with CHECKSUM_COMPLETE: $ ip a show dev eth0 14: eth0@if15: mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 62:ae:35:9e:0f:8d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0 inet6 3333:0:0:1::c078/64 scope global valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fd00:10:244:1::c078/128 scope global nodad valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::60ae:35ff:fe9e:f8d/64 scope link proto kernel_ll valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever $ ip ila add loc_match fd00:10:244:1 loc 3333:0:0:1 \ csum-mode adj-transport ident-type luid dev eth0 Then I hit [fd00:10:244:1::c078]:8000 with a server listening only on [3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000. With the bug, the SYN packet is dropped with SKB_DROP_REASON_TCP_CSUM after inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff changed skb->csum. The translation and drop are visible on pwru [1] traces: IFACE TUPLE FUNC eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[fd00:10:244:1::c078]:8000(tcp) ipv6_rcv eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[fd00:10:244:1::c078]:8000(tcp) ip6_rcv_core eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[fd00:10:244:1::c078]:8000(tcp) nf_hook_slow eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[fd00:10:244:1::c078]:8000(tcp) inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) tcp_v6_early_demux eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) ip6_route_input eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) ip6_input eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) ip6_input_finish eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) raw6_local_deliver eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) ipv6_raw_deliver eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) tcp_v6_rcv eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) __skb_checksum_complete eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) kfree_skb_reason(SKB_DROP_REASON_TCP_CSUM) eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) skb_release_head_state eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) skb_release_data eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) skb_free_head eth0:9 [fd00:10:244:3::3d8]:51420->[3333:0:0:1::c078]:8000(tcp) kfree_skbmem This is happening because inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff is updating skb->csum when it shouldn't. The L4 checksum is updated such that it "cancels" the IPv6 address change in terms of checksum computation, so the impact on skb->csum is null. Note this would be different for an IPv4 packet since three fields would be updated: the IPv4 address, the IP checksum, and the L4 checksum. Two would cancel each other and skb->csum would still need to be updated to take the L4 checksum change into account. This patch fixes it by passing an ipv6 flag to inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff, to skip the skb->csum update if we're in the IPv6 case. Note the behavior of the only other user of inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff, the BPF subsystem, is left as is in this patch and fixed in the subsequent patch. With the fix, using the reproduction from above, I can confirm skb->csum is not touched by inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff and the TCP SYN proceeds to the application after the ILA translation. Link: https://github.com/cilium/pwru [1] Fixes: 65d7ab8de582 ("net: Identifier Locator Addressing module") Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b5539869e3550d46068504feb02d37653d939c0b.1748509484.git.paul.chaignon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski