[PATCH 5.15/6.1/6.6 2/2] sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()

From: Alexander Martyniuk

Date: Thu Jun 25 2026 - 12:54:28 EST


From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 2cd7e6971fc2787408ceef17906ea152791448cf upstream.

udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() / udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() are expected to run with
BH disabled. After commit 6f1a9140ecda ("add xmit recursion limit to
tunnel xmit functions"), on the path:

udp(6)_tunnel_xmit_skb() -> ip(6)tunnel_xmit()

dev_xmit_recursion_inc()/dec() must stay balanced on the same CPU.

Without local_bh_disable(), the context may move between CPUs, which can
break the inc/dec pairing. This may lead to incorrect recursion level
detection and cause packets to be dropped in ip(6)_tunnel_xmit() or
__dev_queue_xmit().

Fix it by disabling BH around both IPv4 and IPv6 SCTP UDP xmit paths.

In my testing, after enabling the SCTP over UDP:

# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899

# ip net exec ha iperf3 -s

- without this patch:

# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.2 MBytes 31.2 Mbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.1 MBytes 31.1 Mbits/sec receiver

- with this patch:

# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec receiver

Fixes: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions")
Fixes: 046c052b475e ("sctp: enable udp tunneling socks")
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c874a8548221dcd56ff03c65ba75a74e6cf99119.1776017727.git.lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sctp/ipv6.c | 2 ++
net/sctp/protocol.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/sctp/ipv6.c b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
index 12469cf1a49d..99686b87b99a 100644
--- a/net/sctp/ipv6.c
+++ b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
@@ -263,9 +263,11 @@ static int sctp_v6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sctp_transport *t)
skb_set_inner_ipproto(skb, IPPROTO_SCTP);
label = ip6_make_flowlabel(sock_net(sk), skb, fl6->flowlabel, true, fl6);

+ local_bh_disable();
udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(dst, sk, skb, NULL, &fl6->saddr, &fl6->daddr,
tclass, ip6_dst_hoplimit(dst), label,
sctp_sk(sk)->udp_port, t->encap_port, false);
+ local_bh_enable();
return 0;
}

diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
index 2185f44198de..0f7e241178f5 100644
--- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
@@ -1085,9 +1085,11 @@ static inline int sctp_v4_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sctp_transport *t)
skb_reset_inner_mac_header(skb);
skb_reset_inner_transport_header(skb);
skb_set_inner_ipproto(skb, IPPROTO_SCTP);
+ local_bh_disable();
udp_tunnel_xmit_skb((struct rtable *)dst, sk, skb, fl4->saddr,
fl4->daddr, dscp, ip4_dst_hoplimit(dst), df,
sctp_sk(sk)->udp_port, t->encap_port, false, false);
+ local_bh_enable();
return 0;
}

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