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net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers
authorHyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Fri, 15 May 2026 22:28:53 +0000 (07:28 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 23 May 2026 11:40:45 +0000 (13:40 +0200)
commit 48f6a5356a33dd78e7144ae1faef95ffc990aae0 upstream.

Two frag-transfer helpers (__pskb_copy_fclone() and skb_shift()) fail
to propagate the SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG bit in skb_shinfo()->flags when
moving frags from source to destination.  __pskb_copy_fclone() defers
the rest of the shinfo metadata to skb_copy_header() after copying
frag descriptors, but that helper only carries over gso_{size,segs,
type} and never touches skb_shinfo()->flags; skb_shift() moves frag
descriptors directly and leaves flags untouched.  As a result, the
destination skb keeps a reference to the same externally-owned or
page-cache-backed pages while reporting skb_has_shared_frag() as
false.

The mismatch is harmful in any in-place writer that uses
skb_has_shared_frag() to decide whether shared pages must be detoured
through skb_cow_data().  ESP input is one such writer (esp4.c,
esp6.c), and a single nft 'dup to <local>' rule -- or any other
nf_dup_ipv4() / xt_TEE caller -- is enough to land a pskb_copy()'d
skb in esp_input() with the marker stripped, letting an unprivileged
user write into the page cache of a root-owned read-only file via
authencesn-ESN stray writes.

Set SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG on the destination whenever frag descriptors
were actually moved from the source.  skb_copy() and skb_copy_expand()
share skb_copy_header() too but linearize all paged data into freshly
allocated head storage and emerge with nr_frags == 0, so
skb_has_shared_frag() returns false on its own; they need no change.

The same omission exists in skb_gro_receive() and skb_gro_receive_list().
The former moves the incoming skb's frag descriptors into the
accumulator's last sub-skb via two paths (a direct frag-move loop and
the head_frag + memcpy path); the latter chains the incoming skb whole
onto p's frag_list.  Downstream skb_segment() reads only
skb_shinfo(p)->flags, and skb_segment_list() reuses each sub-skb's
shinfo as the nskb -- both p and lp must carry the marker.

The same omission also exists in tcp_clone_payload(), which builds an
MTU probe skb by moving frag descriptors from skbs on sk_write_queue
into a freshly allocated nskb.  The helper falls into the same family
and warrants the same fix for consistency; no TCP TX-side in-place
writer is currently known to reach a user page through this gap, but
a future consumer depending on the marker would regress silently.

The same omission exists in skb_segment(): the per-iteration flag
merge takes only head_skb's flag, and the inner switch that rebinds
frag_skb to list_skb on head_skb-frags exhaustion does not fold the
new frag_skb's flag into nskb.  Fold frag_skb's flag at both sites
so segments drawing frags from frag_list members carry the marker.

Fixes: cef401de7be8 ("net: fix possible wrong checksum generation")
Fixes: f4c50a4034e6 ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags")
Suggested-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Suggested-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Suggested-by: Lin Ma <malin89@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Jingguo Tan <tanjingguo@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Aaron Esau <aaron1esau@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Rajat Gupta <rajat.gupta@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ageeJfJHwgzmKXbh@v4bel
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 5.15:
 - skb_gro_receive() and skb_gro_receive_list() are in skbuff.c here
 - Drop change to tcp_clone_payload(), which does not exist here
 - Adjust context in skb_shift()
]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/skbuff.c

index aadb87aa5e7ebb33b958ceda4d7724c98aa73870..a8d09eff26f11c16dd0f41b4f001211201a03a3a 100644 (file)
@@ -1661,6 +1661,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__pskb_copy_fclone(struct sk_buff *skb, int headroom,
                        skb_frag_ref(skb, i);
                }
                skb_shinfo(n)->nr_frags = i;
+               skb_shinfo(n)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
        }
 
        if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
@@ -3650,6 +3651,8 @@ onlymerged:
        tgt->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
        skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
 
+       skb_shinfo(tgt)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
+
        /* Yak, is it really working this way? Some helper please? */
        skb->len -= shiftlen;
        skb->data_len -= shiftlen;
@@ -4017,6 +4020,8 @@ int skb_gro_receive_list(struct sk_buff *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
        p->truesize += skb->truesize;
        p->len += skb->len;
 
+       skb_shinfo(p)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
+
        NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow = 1;
 
        return 0;
@@ -4251,7 +4256,8 @@ normal:
                skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset(head_skb, offset,
                                                 skb_put(nskb, hsize), hsize);
 
-               skb_shinfo(nskb)->flags |= skb_shinfo(head_skb)->flags &
+               skb_shinfo(nskb)->flags |= (skb_shinfo(head_skb)->flags |
+                                           skb_shinfo(frag_skb)->flags) &
                                           SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
 
                if (skb_zerocopy_clone(nskb, frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
@@ -4268,6 +4274,9 @@ normal:
                                nfrags = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->nr_frags;
                                frag = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->frags;
                                frag_skb = list_skb;
+
+                               skb_shinfo(nskb)->flags |= skb_shinfo(frag_skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
+
                                if (!skb_headlen(list_skb)) {
                                        BUG_ON(!nfrags);
                                } else {
@@ -4490,10 +4499,12 @@ done:
        p->data_len += len;
        p->truesize += delta_truesize;
        p->len += len;
+       skb_shinfo(p)->flags |= skbinfo->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
        if (lp != p) {
                lp->data_len += len;
                lp->truesize += delta_truesize;
                lp->len += len;
+               skb_shinfo(lp)->flags |= skbinfo->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
        }
        NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow = 1;
        return 0;