[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Oct 26 11:28:50 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt19.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From b4d0fb426457ec05821825863ec4e7e93fc22f2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:57:53 -0700
Subject: skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull

commit 6ae459bdaaeebc632b16e54dcbabb490c6931d61 upstream.

VXLAN device can receive skb with checksum partial. But the checksum
offset could be in outer header which is pulled on receive. This results
in negative checksum offset for the skb. Such skb can cause the assert
failure in skb_checksum_help(). Following patch fixes the bug by setting
checksum-none while pulling outer header.

Following is the kernel panic msg from old kernel hitting the bug.

------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:1906!
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81518034>] skb_checksum_help+0x144/0x150
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
[<ffffffffa0164c28>] queue_userspace_packet+0x408/0x470 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa016614d>] ovs_dp_upcall+0x5d/0x60 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa0166236>] ovs_dp_process_packet_with_key+0xe6/0x100 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa016629b>] ovs_dp_process_received_packet+0x4b/0x80 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa016c51a>] ovs_vport_receive+0x2a/0x30 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa0171383>] vxlan_rcv+0x53/0x60 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa01734cb>] vxlan_udp_encap_recv+0x8b/0xf0 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffff8157addc>] udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x2dc/0x3b0
[<ffffffff8157b56f>] __udp4_lib_rcv+0x1cf/0x6c0
[<ffffffff8157ba7a>] udp_rcv+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff8154fdbd>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0xdd/0x280
[<ffffffff81550128>] ip_local_deliver+0x88/0x90
[<ffffffff8154fa7d>] ip_rcv_finish+0x10d/0x370
[<ffffffff81550365>] ip_rcv+0x235/0x300
[<ffffffff8151ba1d>] __netif_receive_skb+0x55d/0x620
[<ffffffff8151c360>] netif_receive_skb+0x80/0x90
[<ffffffff81459935>] virtnet_poll+0x555/0x6f0
[<ffffffff8151cd04>] net_rx_action+0x134/0x290
[<ffffffff810683d8>] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x210
[<ffffffff8162fe6c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[<ffffffff810161a5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[<ffffffff810687be>] irq_exit+0x8e/0xb0
[<ffffffff81630733>] do_IRQ+0x63/0xe0
[<ffffffff81625f2e>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e

Reported-by: Anupam Chanda <achanda at vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
Acked-by: Tom Herbert <tom at herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 89524732dd5e..cfe9676d2e71 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -2438,6 +2438,9 @@ static inline void skb_postpull_rcsum(struct sk_buff *skb,
 {
 	if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_COMPLETE)
 		skb->csum = csum_sub(skb->csum, csum_partial(start, len, 0));
+	else if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL &&
+		 skb_checksum_start_offset(skb) <= len)
+		skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
 }

 unsigned char *skb_pull_rcsum(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len);




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