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| author | Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> | 2026-04-03 09:45:12 +0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-04-06 18:46:53 -0700 |
| commit | 0f42e3f4fe2a58394e37241d02d9ca6ab7b7d516 (patch) | |
| tree | 9eb39aa80be867ded493024bf76a5351d84d4bf9 | |
| parent | 24ad7ff668896325591fa0b570f2cca6c55f136f (diff) | |
net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head
SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE is intentionally set to a non-power-of-2
value (e.g. 704 on x86_64) to avoid collisions with generic kmalloc
bucket sizes. This ensures that skb_kfree_head() can reliably use
skb_end_offset to distinguish skb heads allocated from
skb_small_head_cache vs. generic kmalloc caches.
However, when KFENCE is enabled, kfence_ksize() returns the exact
requested allocation size instead of the slab bucket size. If a caller
(e.g. bpf_test_init) allocates skb head data via kzalloc() and the
requested size happens to equal SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE, then
slab_build_skb() -> ksize() returns that exact value. After subtracting
skb_shared_info overhead, skb_end_offset ends up matching
SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM, causing skb_kfree_head() to incorrectly free
the object to skb_small_head_cache instead of back to the original
kmalloc cache, resulting in a slab cross-cache free:
kmem_cache_free(skbuff_small_head): Wrong slab cache. Expected
skbuff_small_head but got kmalloc-1k
Fix this by always calling kfree(head) in skb_kfree_head(). This keeps
the free path generic and avoids allocator-specific misclassification
for KFENCE objects.
Fixes: bf9f1baa279f ("net: add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head")
Reported-by: Antonius <antonius@bluedragonsec.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8a0jxC5L5N7hq-DT2_NhUyjBxrPocoiDazzsBk4TGgT1r4-A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403014517.142550-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/skbuff.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 0e217041958a..43ee86dcf2ea 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -1083,10 +1083,7 @@ static int skb_pp_frag_ref(struct sk_buff *skb) static void skb_kfree_head(void *head, unsigned int end_offset) { - if (end_offset == SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM) - kmem_cache_free(net_hotdata.skb_small_head_cache, head); - else - kfree(head); + kfree(head); } static void skb_free_head(struct sk_buff *skb) |