Re: [PATCH nf] ipvs: reload ip header after head reallocation

Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
	Hello,

On Wed, 8 Jul 2026, Florian Westphal wrote:

> __ip_vs_get_out_rt() might realloc skb->head due to ttl decrement.
> 
> Fixes: 8d8e20e2d7bb ("ipvs: Decrement ttl")
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-6
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>

	Looks good to me, thanks!

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>

> ---
>  LLM assisted find, no real-world bug report behind this.
> 
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c
> index ce542ed4b013..9fef4335da13 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c
> @@ -736,13 +736,11 @@ int
>  ip_vs_bypass_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ip_vs_conn *cp,
>  		  struct ip_vs_protocol *pp, struct ip_vs_iphdr *ipvsh)
>  {
> -	struct iphdr  *iph = ip_hdr(skb);
> -
> -	if (__ip_vs_get_out_rt(cp->ipvs, cp->af, skb, NULL, iph->daddr,
> +	if (__ip_vs_get_out_rt(cp->ipvs, cp->af, skb, NULL, ip_hdr(skb)->daddr,
>  			       IP_VS_RT_MODE_NON_LOCAL, NULL, ipvsh) < 0)
>  		goto tx_error;
>  
> -	ip_send_check(iph);
> +	ip_send_check(ip_hdr(skb));
>  
>  	/* Another hack: avoid icmp_send in ip_fragment */
>  	skb->ignore_df = 1;
> -- 
> 2.54.0

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
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