Re: [PATCH net v3 1/4] net: ipv4: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU

Alice Mikityanska wrote:
> From: Alice Mikityanska <[email protected]>
> 
> This commit bounds cork->base.fragsize to IP_MAX_MTU to avoid a
> possible overflow of UDP length that triggers a WARN in
> udp_set_len_short when setsockopt IP_MTU_DISCOVER is set to
> IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, and a large packet is sent over a netdev with an
> unusually large MTU.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1. Set device MTU bigger than IP_MAX_MTU + 20. cork->base.fragsize will
>    be set to that MTU in ip_setup_cork.
> 2. Set IP_MTU_DISCOVER to IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE. It lets maxnonfragsize be
>    set to device MTU (cork->fragsize) in __ip_append_data, rather than
>    to IP_MAX_MTU.
> 3. Send 65528 bytes of payload (+8 bytes of UDP header, +20 bytes of
>    IPv4 header). Device MTU allows it (it's only one byte bigger than
>    IP_MAX_MTU + IPv4 header, and the device MTU is bigger than that).
> 4. The UDP length in the built packet is 65536, which overflows the
>    16-bit length field and triggers the WARN in udp_set_len_short.
> 
> Note: IP_PMTUDISC_DO with IPv4 is safe, because ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward
> always clamps at IP_MAX_MTU, unlike ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward.
> 
> The Fixes tag points at the first commit where I could reproduce the
> overflow with IPv4 and IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE.
> 
> Fixes: daba287b299e ("ipv4: fix DO and PROBE pmtu mode regarding local fragmentation with UFO/CORK")
> Reported-by: [email protected]
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
> Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <[email protected]>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4.6
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>