[PATCH net 1/2] net: Make PSP skb extension survive packet scrubbing
From: Wei Wang
Date: Sun Oct 25 2026 - 00:07:42 EST
skb_scrub_packet() drops all skb extensions unconditionally via
skb_ext_reset(). It runs on tunnel encap/decap (ip_tunnel_rcv, vxlan_rcv,
etc.) and cross-netns forwarding (dev_forward_skb, netkit_prep_forward,
skb_do_redirect).
When a virtual device such as netkit is associated with a PSP device in
another network namespace via PSP_CMD_DEV_ASSOC, incoming PSP packets
decapsulated by psp_dev_rcv() lose their SKB_EXT_PSP extension when
scrubbed during redirection into the peer netns. Without SKB_EXT_PSP,
__psp_sk_rx_policy_check() rejects incoming TCP data segments at the
socket layer with SKB_DROP_REASON_PSP_INPUT.
Introduce skb_ext_scrub(), a selective variant of skb_ext_reset() that
deletes every extension except SKB_EXT_PSP, and use it in
skb_scrub_packet(). Scrubbing is safe when the extension slab is shared
with clones: deleting an extension only clears the per-skb
active_extensions bit, and the shared slab payload is released lazily by
__skb_ext_put() once the last reference goes away.
Fixes: 06c2dce2d0f6 ("psp: add new netlink cmd for dev-assoc and dev-disassoc")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260910-bpf-meta-inside-skb-ext-v2-3-0b21e42180b0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/DLODSKPY6ON6.1G6SP3CFFLCPJ@xxxxxxxxx/
Co-developed-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/skbuff.h | 2 ++
net/core/skbuff.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index af1cbc2799b7..027404d70c72 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -5083,6 +5083,7 @@ void *__skb_ext_set(struct sk_buff *skb, enum skb_ext_id id,
void *skb_ext_add(struct sk_buff *skb, enum skb_ext_id id);
void __skb_ext_del(struct sk_buff *skb, enum skb_ext_id id);
void __skb_ext_put(struct skb_ext *ext);
+void skb_ext_scrub(struct sk_buff *skb);
static inline void skb_ext_put(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
@@ -5152,6 +5153,7 @@ static inline bool skb_has_extensions(struct sk_buff *skb)
static inline void __skb_ext_put(struct skb_ext *ext) {}
static inline void skb_ext_put(struct sk_buff *skb) {}
static inline void skb_ext_reset(struct sk_buff *skb) {}
+static inline void skb_ext_scrub(struct sk_buff *skb) {}
static inline void skb_ext_del(struct sk_buff *skb, int unused) {}
static inline void __skb_ext_copy(struct sk_buff *d, const struct sk_buff *s) {}
static inline void skb_ext_copy(struct sk_buff *dst, const struct sk_buff *s) {}
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 93c2f440b9ec..3eb0159129e2 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -6380,7 +6380,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_try_coalesce);
* operations.
* skb_scrub_packet can also be used to clean a skb before injecting it in
* another namespace (@xnet == true). We have to clear all information in the
- * skb that could impact namespace isolation.
+ * skb that could impact namespace isolation. Note that PSP skb extension is
+ * meant to carry information across namespaces by design.
*/
void skb_scrub_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet)
{
@@ -6388,7 +6389,7 @@ void skb_scrub_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet)
skb->skb_iif = 0;
skb->ignore_df = 0;
skb_dst_drop(skb);
- skb_ext_reset(skb);
+ skb_ext_scrub(skb);
nf_reset_ct(skb);
nf_reset_trace(skb);
@@ -7431,6 +7432,23 @@ void __skb_ext_put(struct skb_ext *ext)
kmem_cache_free(skbuff_ext_cache, ext);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__skb_ext_put);
+
+void skb_ext_scrub(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ unsigned int id;
+
+ if (likely(!skb->active_extensions))
+ return;
+
+ for (id = 0; id < SKB_EXT_NUM; id++) {
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET_PSP)
+ if (id == SKB_EXT_PSP)
+ continue;
+#endif
+ skb_ext_del(skb, id);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_ext_scrub);
#endif /* CONFIG_SKB_EXTENSIONS */
static void kfree_skb_napi_cache(struct sk_buff *skb)
--
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