netdev - [PATCH v4 net 1/2] net: vlan: always set hard_header_len with VLAN

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Message-ID: <20260126040426.2570396-2-chenzhen126@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:04:25 +0800
From: Chen Zhen <chenzhen126@...wei.com>
To: <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>,
	<pabeni@...hat.com>, <horms@...nel.org>
CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<huyizhen2@...wei.com>, <gaoxingwang1@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 net 1/2] net: vlan: always set hard_header_len with VLAN_HLEN

When tx-vlan-hw-insert is toggled to on, vlan device hard_header_len
will be reduced to dev->hard_header_len since commit 029f5fc31cdb
("8021q: set hard_header_len when VLAN offload features are toggled"),
but the header_ops remains unchanged, ndisc skb will be allocated
with this len and filled in vlan hdr in vlan_dev_hard_header(), but
with reorder_hdr off, the skb room is not enough so it triggers
skb_panic() as below:

skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffffa0535126 len:90 put:14
 head:ffff916c04232ec0 data:ffff916c04232ebe tail:0x58 end:0x180 dev:veth0.10
------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:197!
 <TASK>
  skb_push+0x39/0x40 net/core/skbuff.c:207
  eth_header+0x26/0xb0 net/ethernet/eth.c:90
  vlan_dev_hard_header+0x58/0x130 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:85 [8021q]
  neigh_connected_output+0xae/0x100 net/core/neighbour.c:1589
  ip6_finish_output2+0x2cc/0x650 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:213
  ip6_finish_output+0x27/0xd0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:246
  ndisc_send_skb+0x1d0/0x370 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:516
  ndisc_send_ns+0x5a/0xb0 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:672
  addrconf_dad_work+0x2b5/0x380 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4258
  process_one_work+0x17f/0x320 kernel/workqueue.c:2743

In case of possible crash from other callers, fix this by always
reserving VLAN_HLEN in hard_header_len even if the header_ops would
not request it.

Fixes: 029f5fc31cdb ("8021q: set hard_header_len when VLAN offload features are toggled")
Signed-off-by: Chen Zhen <chenzhen126@...wei.com>
---
 net/8021q/vlan.c     | 5 -----
 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 8 +++-----
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index 2b74ed56eb16..a7b5da7f9999 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -323,11 +323,6 @@ static void vlan_transfer_features(struct net_device *dev,
 
 	netif_inherit_tso_max(vlandev, dev);
 
-	if (vlan_hw_offload_capable(dev->features, vlan->vlan_proto))
-		vlandev->hard_header_len = dev->hard_header_len;
-	else
-		vlandev->hard_header_len = dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN;
-
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FCOE)
 	vlandev->fcoe_ddp_xid = dev->fcoe_ddp_xid;
 #endif
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
index fbf296137b09..9e81669bffd6 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
@@ -572,13 +572,11 @@ static int vlan_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
 #endif
 
 	dev->needed_headroom = real_dev->needed_headroom;
-	if (vlan_hw_offload_capable(real_dev->features, vlan->vlan_proto)) {
+	dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN;
+	if (vlan_hw_offload_capable(real_dev->features, vlan->vlan_proto))
 		dev->header_ops      = &vlan_passthru_header_ops;
-		dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len;
-	} else {
+	else
 		dev->header_ops      = &vlan_header_ops;
-		dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN;
-	}
 
 	dev->netdev_ops = &vlan_netdev_ops;
 
-- 
2.33.0