linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] [net?] WARNING in __ip6_append

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Message-ID: <65085768c17da_898cd294ae@willemb.c.googlers.com.notmuch>
Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:58:00 -0400
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com,
        syzbot <syzbot+62cbf263225ae13ff153@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, dsahern@...nel.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [net?] WARNING in __ip6_append_data

David Howells wrote:
> David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think the attached is probably an equivalent cleaned up reproducer.  Note
> > that if the length given to sendfile() is less than 65536, it fails with
> > EINVAL before it gets into __ip6_append_data().
> 
> Actually, it only fails with EINVAL if the size is not a multiple of the block
> size of the source file because it's open O_DIRECT so, say, 65536-512 is fine
> (and works).
> 
> But thinking more on this further, is this even a bug in my code, I wonder?
> The length passed is 65536 - but a UDP packet can't carry that, so it
> shouldn't it have errored out before getting that far?  (which is what it
> seems to do when I try it).
> 
> I don't see how we get past the length check in ip6_append_data() with the
> reproducer we're given unless the MTU is somewhat bigger than 65536 (is that
> even possible?)

An ipv6 packet can carry 64KB of payload, so maxnonfragsize of 65535 + 40
sounds correct. But payload length passed of 65536 is not (ignoring ipv6
jumbograms). So that should probably trigger an EINVAL -- if that is indeed
what the repro does.