linux-kernel - [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: xt_CHECKSUM: avoid bad offload warnings on GSO packets

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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:48:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: xt_CHECKSUM: avoid bad offload warnings on
 GSO packets

When --checksum_fill action is applied to a GSO packet, checksum_tg() calls
skb_checksum_help() which is only meant to be applied to non-GSO packets so
that it issues a warning.

This can be easily triggered by using e.g.

  iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -j CHECKSUM --checksum-fill

and sending TCP stream via a device with GSO enabled.

While this can be considered a misconfiguration, I believe the bad offload
warning is supposed to catch bugs in drivers and networking stack, not
misconfigured firewalls. So let's ignore such packets and only issue a one
time warning with pr_warn_once() rather than a WARN with stack trace and
tainted kernel.

Reported-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_CHECKSUM.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_CHECKSUM.c b/net/netfilter/xt_CHECKSUM.c
index 0f642ef8cd26..9a007153ba7f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_CHECKSUM.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_CHECKSUM.c
@@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("ip6t_CHECKSUM");
 static unsigned int
 checksum_tg(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct xt_action_param *par)
 {
-	if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)
-		skb_checksum_help(skb);
+	if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
+		if (unlikely(skb_is_gso(skb)))
+			pr_warn_once("cannot mangle checksum of a GSO packet\n");
+		else
+			skb_checksum_help(skb);
+	}
 
 	return XT_CONTINUE;
 }
-- 
2.14.1