[PATCH net] udp: only allow UFO for packets from SOCK_DGRAM sockets

From: Michal Kubecek
Date: Mon Mar 02 2015 - 12:27:21 EST


If an over-MTU UDP datagram is sent through a SOCK_RAW socket to a
UFO-capable device, ip_ufo_append_data() sets skb->ip_summed to
CHECKSUM_PARTIAL unconditionally as all GSO code assumes transport layer
checksum is to be computed on segmentation. However, in this case,
skb->csum_start and skb->csum_offset are never set as raw socket
transmit path bypasses udp_send_skb() where they are usually set. As a
result, driver may access invalid memory when trying to calculate the
checksum and store the result (as observed in virtio_net driver).

Moreover, the very idea of modifying the userspace provided UDP header
is IMHO against raw socket semantics (I wasn't able to find a document
clearly stating this or the opposite, though). And while allowing
CHECKSUM_NONE in the UFO case would be more efficient, it would be a bit
too intrusive change just to handle a corner case like this. Therefore
disallowing UFO for packets from SOCK_DGRAM seems to be the best option.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 3 ++-
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index d68199d..a7aea20 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -888,7 +888,8 @@ static int __ip_append_data(struct sock *sk,
cork->length += length;
if (((length > mtu) || (skb && skb_is_gso(skb))) &&
(sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_UDP) &&
- (rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_UFO) && !rt->dst.header_len) {
+ (rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_UFO) && !rt->dst.header_len &&
+ (sk->sk_type == SOCK_DGRAM)) {
err = ip_ufo_append_data(sk, queue, getfrag, from, length,
hh_len, fragheaderlen, transhdrlen,
maxfraglen, flags);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 7deebf1..0a04a37 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -1298,7 +1298,8 @@ emsgsize:
if (((length > mtu) ||
(skb && skb_is_gso(skb))) &&
(sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_UDP) &&
- (rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_UFO)) {
+ (rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_UFO) &&
+ (sk->sk_type == SOCK_DGRAM)) {
err = ip6_ufo_append_data(sk, queue, getfrag, from, length,
hh_len, fragheaderlen,
transhdrlen, mtu, flags, rt);
--
1.8.4.5

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