[PATCH net v3] net: axienet: safely drop oversized RX frames
Can Ayberk Demir
ayberkdemir at gmail.com
Fri May 9 03:47:55 PDT 2025
From: Can Ayberk DEMIR <ayberkdemir at gmail.com>
In AXI Ethernet (axienet) driver, receiving an Ethernet frame larger
than the allocated skb buffer may cause memory corruption or kernel panic,
especially when the interface MTU is small and a jumbo frame is received.
Fixes: 8a3b7a252dca ("drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx: added Xilinx AXI Ethernet driver")
This bug was discovered during testing on a Kria K26 platform. When an
oversized frame is received and `skb_put()` is called without checking
the tailroom, the following kernel panic occurs:
skb_panic+0x58/0x5c
skb_put+0x90/0xb0
axienet_rx_poll+0x130/0x4ec
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception in interrupt
Signed-off-by: Can Ayberk DEMIR <ayberkdemir at gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Fixed 'ndev' undeclared error → replaced with 'lp->ndev'
- Added rx_dropped++ for statistics
- Added Fixes: tag
Changes in v2:
- This patch addresses style issues pointed out in v1.
---
.../net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 47 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
index 1b7a653c1f4e..7a12132e2b7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
@@ -1223,28 +1223,37 @@ static int axienet_rx_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
dma_unmap_single(lp->dev, phys, lp->max_frm_size,
DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
- skb_put(skb, length);
- skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, lp->ndev);
- /*skb_checksum_none_assert(skb);*/
- skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
-
- /* if we're doing Rx csum offload, set it up */
- if (lp->features & XAE_FEATURE_FULL_RX_CSUM) {
- csumstatus = (cur_p->app2 &
- XAE_FULL_CSUM_STATUS_MASK) >> 3;
- if (csumstatus == XAE_IP_TCP_CSUM_VALIDATED ||
- csumstatus == XAE_IP_UDP_CSUM_VALIDATED) {
- skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
+ if (unlikely(length > skb_tailroom(skb))) {
+ netdev_warn(lp->ndev,
+ "Dropping oversized RX frame (len=%u, tailroom=%u)\n",
+ length, skb_tailroom(skb));
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ lp->ndev->stats.rx_dropped++;
+ skb = NULL;
+ } else {
+ skb_put(skb, length);
+ skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, lp->ndev);
+ /*skb_checksum_none_assert(skb);*/
+ skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
+
+ /* if we're doing Rx csum offload, set it up */
+ if (lp->features & XAE_FEATURE_FULL_RX_CSUM) {
+ csumstatus = (cur_p->app2 &
+ XAE_FULL_CSUM_STATUS_MASK) >> 3;
+ if (csumstatus == XAE_IP_TCP_CSUM_VALIDATED ||
+ csumstatus == XAE_IP_UDP_CSUM_VALIDATED) {
+ skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
+ }
+ } else if (lp->features & XAE_FEATURE_PARTIAL_RX_CSUM) {
+ skb->csum = be32_to_cpu(cur_p->app3 & 0xFFFF);
+ skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_COMPLETE;
}
- } else if (lp->features & XAE_FEATURE_PARTIAL_RX_CSUM) {
- skb->csum = be32_to_cpu(cur_p->app3 & 0xFFFF);
- skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_COMPLETE;
- }
- napi_gro_receive(napi, skb);
+ napi_gro_receive(napi, skb);
- size += length;
- packets++;
+ size += length;
+ packets++;
+ }
}
new_skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, lp->max_frm_size);
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
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