Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: gso: Fix skb_segment splat when splitting gso_size mangled skb having linear-headed frag_list

[Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:23 AM Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik@metanetworks.com> wrote:
>
> Historically, support for frag_list packets entering skb_segment() was
> limited to frag_list members terminating on exact same gso_size
> boundaries. This is verified with a BUG_ON since commit 89319d3801d1
> ("net: Add frag_list support to skb_segment"), quote:
>
>     As such we require all frag_list members terminate on exact MSS
>     boundaries.  This is checked using BUG_ON.
>     As there should only be one producer in the kernel of such packets,
>     namely GRO, this requirement should not be difficult to maintain.
>
> However, since commit 6578171a7ff0 ("bpf: add bpf_skb_change_proto helper"),
> the "exact MSS boundaries" assumption no longer holds:
> An eBPF program using bpf_skb_change_proto() DOES modify 'gso_size', but
> leaves the frag_list members as originally merged by GRO with the
> original 'gso_size'. Example of such programs are bpf-based NAT46 or
> NAT64.
>
> This lead to a kernel BUG_ON for flows involving:
>  - GRO generating a frag_list skb
>  - bpf program performing bpf_skb_change_proto() or bpf_skb_adjust_room()
>  - skb_segment() of the skb
>
> See example BUG_ON reports in [0].
>
> In commit 13acc94eff12 ("net: permit skb_segment on head_frag frag_list skb"),
> skb_segment() was modified to support the "gso_size mangling" case of
> a frag_list GRO'ed skb, but *only* for frag_list members having
> head_frag==true (having a page-fragment head).
>
> Alas, GRO packets having frag_list members with a linear kmalloced head
> (head_frag==false) still hit the BUG_ON.
>
> This commit adds support to skb_segment() for a 'head_skb' packet having
> a frag_list whose members are *non* head_frag, with gso_size mangled, by
> disabling SG and thus falling-back to copying the data from the given
> 'head_skb' into the generated segmented skbs - as suggested by Willem de
> Bruijn [1].
>
> Since this approach involves the penalty of skb_copy_and_csum_bits()
> when building the segments, care was taken in order to enable this
> solution only when required:
>  - untrusted gso_size, by testing SKB_GSO_DODGY is set
>    (SKB_GSO_DODGY is set by any gso_size mangling functions in
>     net/core/filter.c)
>  - the frag_list is non empty, its item is a non head_frag, *and* the
>    headlen of the given 'head_skb' does not match the gso_size.
>
> [0]
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190826170724.25ff616f@pixies/
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/9265b93f-253d-6b8c-f2b8-4b54eff1835c@fb.com/
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CA+FuTSfVsgNDi7c=GUU8nMg2hWxF2SjCNLXetHeVPdnxAW5K-w@mail.gmail.com/
>
> Fixes: 6578171a7ff0 ("bpf: add bpf_skb_change_proto helper")
> Suggested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>