[PATCH net v3] net: gro: Fix nesting of TCP GSO SKBs in skb_gro_receive_list()

zhaoping.shu at mediatek.com zhaoping.shu at mediatek.com
Wed Aug 12 18:40:56 PDT 2026


From: HW He <hw.he at mediatek.com>

A device supports GRO_HW, and the device driver enables the
NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST feature. During a tethering test,
skb_gro_receive_list() reaggregates the GSO packet. However,
skb_segment_list() cannot segment this packet back into
the original packets, which leads to IP fragmentation or packet drop.

Scenario (Tethering/Forwarding):
1.Driver submits a single TCP packet, P1. P1 is kept in the
gro_list as the first packet.

2. The driver submits a TCP GSO skb, P2. P2 has already aggregated
multiple TCP packets by HW_GRO, and its non-linear data is stored in
frags[].

3. P1 and P2 match the GRO rules, and since there is no local socket,
they are aggregated by skb_gro_receive_list(). The resulting skb,
P3, has a frag_list entry that still contains frags[]:
P3: [ Linear Data ] -> frag_list -> [ Linear Data ]
                                    [ frag[1] ]
                                    [ frag[2] ]
                                    ...
4. Later, tcp4_gso_segment() or tcp6_gso_segment() calls
skb_segment_list() to segment P3. However, skb_segment_list() only
segments the entries in frag_list. It does not segment the frags[]
inside P2, so P3 is not restored to the original packets, which leads
to IP fragmentation or packet drop in the following path.

When NETIF_F_GRO_HW is enabled, do not set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_flist.
Fall through to the regular skb_gro_receive() path instead of
skb_gro_receive_list().

Fixes: 8d95dc474f85 ("net: add code for TCP fraglist GRO")
Signed-off-by: HW He <hw.he at mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhaoping Shu <zhaoping.shu at mediatek.com>
---
[2]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/14706032
[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/14702209
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c   | 7 +++----
 net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
index 3b1fdcd3cb29..641c47fb1ea2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
@@ -395,9 +395,6 @@ static void tcp4_check_fraglist_gro(struct list_head *head, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct net *net;
 	int iif, sdif;
 
-	if (likely(!(skb->dev->features & NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST)))
-		return;
-
 	p = tcp_gro_lookup(head, th);
 	if (p) {
 		NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_flist = NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->is_flist;
@@ -430,7 +427,9 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp4_gro_receive(struct list_head *head, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (!th)
 		goto flush;
 
-	tcp4_check_fraglist_gro(head, skb, th);
+	if (unlikely((skb->dev->features & NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST) &&
+		     !(skb->dev->features & NETIF_F_GRO_HW)))
+		tcp4_check_fraglist_gro(head, skb, th);
 
 	return tcp_gro_receive(head, skb, th);
 
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c b/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
index f2a659cd6183..e983f55c4419 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static __always_inline struct sk_buff *tcp6_gro_receive(struct list_head *head,
 	if (!th)
 		goto flush;
 
-	if (unlikely(skb->dev->features & NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST))
+	if (unlikely((skb->dev->features & NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST) &&
+		     !(skb->dev->features & NETIF_F_GRO_HW)))
 		tcp6_check_fraglist_gro(head, skb, th);
 
 	return tcp_gro_receive(head, skb, th);
-- 
2.17.0




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