Re: [PATCH net] net: pktgen: fix out-of-bounds write in pktgen_finalize_skb()
Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 14:25:37 -0700
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This is an AI-generated review of your patch. The human sending this email has considered the AI review valid, or at least plausible. --- --- Patch [1]: [PATCH net] net: pktgen: fix out-of-bounds write in pktgen_finalize_skb() --- commit 482871be2b4cb4112bd717673de3a4fe3ab0b9c3 Author: Yuejie Shi <[email protected]> net: pktgen: fix out-of-bounds write in pktgen_finalize_skb() The patch changes the per-fragment length in pktgen_finalize_skb() from a truncating division to DIV_ROUND_UP(), and adds an i < frags bound to the fragment fill loop, so the loop can no longer write past skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[]. The reported KASAN overflow with pkt_size in [69675, 69689] and frags 17 does look fixed by this. > diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c > index ee64f3012321..60dbe60005eb 100644 > --- a/net/core/pktgen.c > +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c > @@ -2843,8 +2843,8 @@ static void pktgen_finalize_skb(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, struct sk_buff *skb, > } > > i = 0; > - frag_len = min_t(int, datalen / frags, PAGE_SIZE); > - while (datalen > 0) { > + frag_len = min_t(int, DIV_ROUND_UP(datalen, frags), PAGE_SIZE); > + while (datalen > 0 && i < frags) { [Severity: Medium] [Finding: main-2-0] [Sources: opus-5] With frag_len rounded up, can the partition now run out of bytes before i reaches frags - 1, so that the else branch over-charges the last fragment? frag_len is computed once and never re-clamped against the bytes still outstanding, and only the i == (frags - 1) branch uses min(datalen, PAGE_SIZE): /*last fragment, fill rest of data*/ if (i == (frags - 1)) skb_frag_fill_page_desc(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i], pkt_dev->page, 0, min(datalen, PAGE_SIZE)); else skb_frag_fill_page_desc(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i], pkt_dev->page, 0, frag_len); datalen -= skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]); skb->len += skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]); skb->data_len += skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]); Taking pkt_size 77 with frags 17, which the pkt_size setter accepts since it only clamps against 14 + 20 + 8: fill_packet_ipv4(): datalen = 77 - 42 = 35 pktgen_finalize_skb(): datalen -= sizeof(*pgh) -> 19 frag_len = DIV_ROUND_UP(19, 17) = 2 Iterations i = 0..8 consume 18 bytes and leave 1 byte. At i == 9 the i == (frags - 1) test is false (frags - 1 is 16), so the else branch charges the full frag_len of 2: datalen becomes -1 skb->len and skb->data_len are 1 byte larger than requested nr_frags ends at 10 instead of the requested 17 Another example is datalen 71 with frags 17: frag_len is 5, 15 iterations consume 75 bytes, overshooting by 4, and nr_frags ends at 15. The overshoot is bounded by frag_len - 1, so at most 16 bytes with MAX_SKB_FRAGS == 17, and fragment sizes still never exceed PAGE_SIZE, so this is a length-accounting problem rather than a memory-safety one. Does the inflated skb->len leave the frame inconsistent with the L3/L4 headers? fill_packet_ipv4() writes the lengths from the same datalen it hands to pktgen_finalize_skb(): udph->len = htons(datalen + 8); /* DATA + udphdr */ ... iplen = 20 + 8 + datalen; iph->tot_len = htons(iplen); fill_packet_ipv6() follows the same pattern. pktgen_xmit() also does pkt_dev->last_pkt_size = pkt_dev->skb->len, which feeds pkt_dev->tx_bytes, so the reported byte counts would drift from the configured pkt_size too. Before this change these same inputs partitioned exactly: with datalen 19 and frags 17 the truncated frag_len was 1, giving 16 one-byte fragments plus a last fragment of 3, and the i == (frags - 1) branch was always reached. Would using min(datalen, frag_len) in the else branch, or treating datalen <= frag_len as the last fragment, keep the sum equal to datalen in these cases? The commit message says: the fragments now cover datalen exactly and the loop always terminates on the last one. As a side effect pktgen stops emitting zero-length fragments when datalen < frags. Should this also mention that for small datalen with many fragments the loop terminates before the last fragment, and that fewer fragments than requested are produced? -- pw-bot: cr