Re: [PATCH net] ipv6/gro: fix an out of bounds memory bug in ipv6_gro_receive()
From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Oct 28 2022 - 08:40:57 EST
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 3:11 AM Ziyang Xuan (William)
<william.xuanziyang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Thank you for your suggestion.
>
> I have analyzed the problem more deeply. The odd IPv6 packet and
> big packet length value(IPv6 payload length more than 65535)
> together cause the problem.
>
> skb->network_header and skb->transport_header are all u16 type.
> They would occuer overflow errors during ipv6_gro_receive() processing.
> That cause the value error for __skb_push(skb, value).
>
> So the problem is a bug in tun device.
>
> I will combine my previous problem "net: tun: limit first seg size to avoid oversized linearization"
> together to give the fix patch later.
SGTM, thanks !