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authorWeiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>2026-03-07 00:01:34 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-03-19 16:14:54 +0100
commitb56b8d19bd05e2a8338385c770bc2b60590bc81e (patch)
tree17baa2c2d921de0af13676353699582402502163 /net
parent18ac7002c2da8f997f761baaa6d7477301d6fd34 (diff)
net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions
[ Upstream commit 6f1a9140ecda3baba3d945b9a6155af4268aafc4 ] Tunnel xmit functions (iptunnel_xmit, ip6tunnel_xmit) lack their own recursion limit. When a bond device in broadcast mode has GRE tap interfaces as slaves, and those GRE tunnels route back through the bond, multicast/broadcast traffic triggers infinite recursion between bond_xmit_broadcast() and ip_tunnel_xmit()/ip6_tnl_xmit(), causing kernel stack overflow. The existing XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT (8) in the no-qdisc path is not sufficient because tunnel recursion involves route lookups and full IP output, consuming much more stack per level. Use a lower limit of 4 (IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT) to prevent overflow. Add recursion detection using dev_xmit_recursion helpers directly in iptunnel_xmit() and ip6tunnel_xmit() to cover all IPv4/IPv6 tunnel paths including UDP encapsulated tunnels (VXLAN, Geneve, etc.). Move dev_xmit_recursion helpers from net/core/dev.h to public header include/linux/netdevice.h so they can be used by tunnel code. BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in blake2s.constprop.0+0xe7/0x160 Write of size 32 at addr ffff88810033fed0 by task kworker/0:1/11 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work Call Trace: <TASK> __build_flow_key.constprop.0 (net/ipv4/route.c:515) ip_rt_update_pmtu (net/ipv4/route.c:1073) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:84) ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237) ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237) ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86) ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) mld_sendpack mld_ifc_work process_one_work worker_thread </TASK> Fixes: 745e20f1b626 ("net: add a recursion limit in xmit path") Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306160133.3852900-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.h35
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c13
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.h b/net/core/dev.h
index da18536cbd35..49173702e15e 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.h
+++ b/net/core/dev.h
@@ -361,41 +361,6 @@ static inline void napi_assert_will_not_race(const struct napi_struct *napi)
void kick_defer_list_purge(unsigned int cpu);
-#define XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT 8
-
-#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
-static inline bool dev_xmit_recursion(void)
-{
- return unlikely(__this_cpu_read(softnet_data.xmit.recursion) >
- XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT);
-}
-
-static inline void dev_xmit_recursion_inc(void)
-{
- __this_cpu_inc(softnet_data.xmit.recursion);
-}
-
-static inline void dev_xmit_recursion_dec(void)
-{
- __this_cpu_dec(softnet_data.xmit.recursion);
-}
-#else
-static inline bool dev_xmit_recursion(void)
-{
- return unlikely(current->net_xmit.recursion > XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT);
-}
-
-static inline void dev_xmit_recursion_inc(void)
-{
- current->net_xmit.recursion++;
-}
-
-static inline void dev_xmit_recursion_dec(void)
-{
- current->net_xmit.recursion--;
-}
-#endif
-
int dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib(struct net_device *dev,
struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
index 2e61ac137128..b1b6bf949f65 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
@@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ void iptunnel_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct rtable *rt, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct iphdr *iph;
int err;
+ if (dev_recursion_level() > IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT) {
+ net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s, fix it urgently!\n",
+ dev->name);
+ DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors);
+ ip_rt_put(rt);
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ dev_xmit_recursion_inc();
+
skb_scrub_packet(skb, xnet);
skb_clear_hash_if_not_l4(skb);
@@ -88,6 +99,8 @@ void iptunnel_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct rtable *rt, struct sk_buff *skb,
pkt_len = 0;
iptunnel_xmit_stats(dev, pkt_len);
}
+
+ dev_xmit_recursion_dec();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iptunnel_xmit);