[PATCH net-next v5 02/14] ip_tunnel: make __iptunnel_pull_header() return a drop reason

From: Anton Danilov

Date: Wed Sep 30 2026 - 15:50:37 EST


__iptunnel_pull_header() returns -ENOMEM whenever it fails. It can
fail in two pskb_may_pull() calls, one for the tunnel header and one
for the inner Ethernet header of ETH_P_TEB, and in the skb_unclone()
done for GSO packets. pskb_may_pull() fails when the packet is shorter
than the requested length as well as when pulling from the frags cannot
allocate, so a truncated packet and an allocation failure look the same
to the callers. The ones that report a drop reason can only pick
SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM, as vxlan_rcv() does, and so would the GRE
receive paths converted by the following patches. In ip6_gre,
gre_rcv() pulls the header before the tunnel lookup, so a packet from
any sender whose ETH_P_TEB inner Ethernet header or WCCPv2 extra word
is cut short would be reported as an out of memory condition.

Make __iptunnel_pull_header() and iptunnel_pull_header() return the
reason pskb_may_pull_reason() already computes, SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM
when skb_unclone() fails, and SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET on success. A failure
is still non-zero, so the callers that only test the result keep
working. Three callers, in ip_gre and ip6_gre, test it with "< 0"
instead; the enum has no negative values, so that test would always be
false, and the compiler does not warn about it. Make them test for a
non-zero value.

Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Anton Danilov <littlesmilingcloud@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 10 ++++++----
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 4 ++--
net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/ip_tunnels.h b/include/net/ip_tunnels.h
index 7102aa11fae2..5cccf4c0e691 100644
--- a/include/net/ip_tunnels.h
+++ b/include/net/ip_tunnels.h
@@ -614,11 +614,13 @@ static inline u8 ip_tunnel_ecn_encap(u8 tos, const struct iphdr *iph,
return INET_ECN_encapsulate(tos, inner);
}

-int __iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
- __be16 inner_proto, bool raw_proto, bool xnet);
+enum skb_drop_reason
+__iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
+ __be16 inner_proto, bool raw_proto, bool xnet);

-static inline int iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
- __be16 inner_proto, bool xnet)
+static inline enum skb_drop_reason
+iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
+ __be16 inner_proto, bool xnet)
{
return __iptunnel_pull_header(skb, hdr_len, inner_proto, false, xnet);
}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index 51fcd603939c..3ee437fa3eae 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static int erspan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi,
if (__iptunnel_pull_header(skb,
len,
htons(ETH_P_TEB),
- false, false) < 0)
+ false, false))
goto drop;

if (tunnel->collect_md) {
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int __ipgre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi,
const struct iphdr *tnl_params;

if (__iptunnel_pull_header(skb, hdr_len, tpi->proto,
- raw_proto, false) < 0)
+ raw_proto, false))
goto drop;

/* Special case for ipgre_header_parse(), which expects the
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
index bab42b9e277f..6c2855adff28 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
@@ -106,19 +106,24 @@ void iptunnel_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct rtable *rt, struct sk_buff *skb,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iptunnel_xmit);

-int __iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
- __be16 inner_proto, bool raw_proto, bool xnet)
+enum skb_drop_reason
+__iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
+ __be16 inner_proto, bool raw_proto, bool xnet)
{
- if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, hdr_len)))
- return -ENOMEM;
+ enum skb_drop_reason reason;
+
+ reason = pskb_may_pull_reason(skb, hdr_len);
+ if (unlikely(reason))
+ return reason;

skb_pull_rcsum(skb, hdr_len);

if (!raw_proto && inner_proto == htons(ETH_P_TEB)) {
struct ethhdr *eh;

- if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN)))
- return -ENOMEM;
+ reason = pskb_may_pull_reason(skb, ETH_HLEN);
+ if (unlikely(reason))
+ return reason;

eh = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
if (likely(eth_proto_is_802_3(eh->h_proto)))
@@ -135,7 +140,10 @@ int __iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, 0);
skb_scrub_packet(skb, xnet);

- return iptunnel_pull_offloads(skb);
+ if (unlikely(iptunnel_pull_offloads(skb)))
+ return SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM;
+
+ return SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__iptunnel_pull_header);

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 258239a7c53b..0392f6ba862b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static int ip6erspan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb,

if (__iptunnel_pull_header(skb, len,
htons(ETH_P_TEB),
- false, false) < 0)
+ false, false))
return PACKET_REJECT;

if (tunnel->parms.collect_md) {
--
2.47.3