[PATCH 2/2] selftests/tc-testing: Verify IFE can handle truncated inner Ethernet header

From: Ren Wei

Date: Wed Jun 10 2026 - 14:40:07 EST


From: Victor Nogueira <victor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Add a tdc test that exercises the act_ife decode path with a malformed
IFE packet whose encapsulated inner Ethernet header is truncated.

The injected frame has a valid outer Ethernet header (ethertype 0xED3E)
and a minimal IFE header (metalen 2, i.e. no metadata TLVs), but the
payload that should hold the original frame is a single byte instead of
a full Ethernet header. Once ife_decode() strips the outer header and
the IFE metadata, fewer than ETH_HLEN bytes are left, which previously
let eth_type_trans() read past the end of the linear data.

Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../tc-testing/tc-tests/actions/ife.json | 55 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/actions/ife.json b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/actions/ife.json
index 808aef4afe22..ece7ec41bf99 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/actions/ife.json
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/actions/ife.json
@@ -1378,5 +1378,60 @@
"teardown": [
"$TC actions flush action ife"
]
+ },
+ {
+ "id": "4e6b",
+ "name": "Decode IFE packet with truncated inner Ethernet header",
+ "category": [
+ "actions",
+ "ife"
+ ],
+ "plugins": {
+ "requires": [
+ "nsPlugin",
+ "scapyPlugin"
+ ]
+ },
+ "setup": [
+ [
+ "$TC actions flush action ife",
+ 0,
+ 1,
+ 255
+ ],
+ "$TC qdisc add dev $DEV1 clsact"
+ ],
+ "scapy": [
+ {
+ "iface": "$DEV0",
+ "count": 1,
+ "packet": "Ether(type=0xED3E) / Raw(b'\\x00\\x02\\xaa')"
+ }
+ ],
+ "cmdUnderTest": "$TC filter add dev $DEV1 ingress protocol all matchall action ife decode pipe index 10",
+ "expExitCode": "0",
+ "verifyCmd": "$TC -s -j actions get action ife index 10",
+ "matchJSON": [
+ {
+ "total acts": 0
+ },
+ {
+ "actions": [
+ {
+ "kind": "ife",
+ "mode": "decode",
+ "index": 10,
+ "stats": {
+ "bytes": 3,
+ "packets": 1,
+ "drops": 1
+ }
+ }
+ ]
+ }
+ ],
+ "teardown": [
+ "$TC qdisc del dev $DEV1 clsact"
+ ]
}
]
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