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| author | 2026-05-20 09:00:21 -0700 | |
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| committer | 2026-05-22 07:56:27 -0700 | |
| commit | f4feb1e20058e407cb00f45aff47f5b7e19a6bbf (patch) | |
| tree | d6cc431659bb60e3a2731bccafd8ba5ed18fe174 /tools/testing/selftests/dm-verity/git:/ssh:/git@git.zx2c4.com | |
| parent | Merge tag 'net-7.1-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net (diff) | |
tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()
tun_xdp_one() returns -EINVAL on a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN without
freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for it.
tun_sendmsg() discards that -EINVAL and still returns total_len, so
vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page; each
short frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk.
A local process that can open /dev/net/tun and /dev/vhost-net can hit
this path: it attaches a tun/tap device as the vhost-net backend and
feeds TX descriptors whose length minus the virtio-net header is below
ETH_HLEN. Each kick leaks the page-frag chunks for that batch, and a
tight submission loop exhausts host memory and triggers an OOM panic.
Free the page before returning -EINVAL, matching the XDP-program error
path in the same function.
Fixes: 049584807f1d ("tun: add missing verification for short frame")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520160020.375349-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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