[PATCH net v2] net: gue: reject invalid REMCSUM offsets

[Jérémy Jean]

Hello,

On Eric's suggestion (2026-08-24 13:38 UTC), I rewrote the v1 of the patch
to move the check into validate_gue_flags(). There is now a single check.

In case of backports, note that this fix depends on commit
d335dcc6f521 ("gue: validate REMCSUM private option length").

Actual patch below.

Cheers,
Jérémy

---


The REMCSUM option carries an absolute checksum start and checksum field
offset. gue_remcsum() passes them to skb_remcsum_process(), whose
partial path stores offset - start in the u16 skb->csum_offset variable.
If offset is less than start, this underflows.

A forwarded packet can retain CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and reach a NETIF_F_HW_CSUM
driver which trusts the metadata, leading skb_copy_and_csum_dev() to write
two bytes about 64 KiB beyond the destination buffer.

Reject reversed tuples in validate_gue_flags(), after the existing length
validation, so all GUE parsers enforce the ordering in one place.

Fixes: fe881ef11cf0 ("gue: Use checksum partial with remote checksum offload")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260820220210.3122690-2-Jeremy.Jean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Changes in v2:
- on a suggestion from Eric Dumazet, move the REMCSUM ordering check into
  validate_gue_flags().

 include/net/gue.h | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/gue.h b/include/net/gue.h
index caefd6da8693..f37361aab28d 100644
--- a/include/net/gue.h
+++ b/include/net/gue.h
@@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ static inline size_t guehdr_priv_flags_len(__be32 flags)
 }
 
 /* Validate standard and private flags. Returns non-zero (meaning invalid)
- * if there is an unknown standard or private flags, or the options length for
- * the flags exceeds the options length specific in hlen of the GUE header.
+ * if there is an unknown standard or private flags, if the options length for
+ * the flags exceeds the options length specified in hlen of the GUE header, or
+ * if a private option contains invalid data.
  */
 static inline int validate_gue_flags(struct guehdr *guehdr, size_t optlen)
 {
@@ -103,8 +104,8 @@ static inline int validate_gue_flags(struct guehdr *guehdr, size_t optlen)
 		/* Private flags are last four bytes accounted in
 		 * guehdr_flags_len
 		 */
-		__be32 pflags = *(__be32 *)((void *)&guehdr[1] +
-					    len - GUE_LEN_PRIV);
+		void *data = (void *)&guehdr[1] + len;
+		__be32 pflags = *(__be32 *)(data - GUE_LEN_PRIV);
 
 		if (pflags & ~GUE_PFLAGS_ALL)
 			return 1;
@@ -112,6 +113,16 @@ static inline int validate_gue_flags(struct guehdr *guehdr, size_t optlen)
 		len += guehdr_priv_flags_len(pflags);
 		if (len > optlen)
 			return 1;
+
+		if (pflags & GUE_PFLAG_REMCSUM) {
+			__be16 *pd = data;
+
+			/* The field offset pd[1] must not be less
+			 * than the start pd[0].
+			 */
+			if (ntohs(pd[1]) < ntohs(pd[0]))
+				return 1;
+		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.47.3