Re: kernel >= 4.0: crashes when using traceroute6 with isatap

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed May 06 2015 - 18:42:47 EST


On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 00:04 +0200, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2015, 12:10:00 schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> > On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 11:15 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> > > (Cc'ing netdev.)
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Wolfgang Walter <linux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2015, 02:16:36 schrieb Wolfgang Walter:
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >>
> > > >> kernel 4.0 (and 4.0.1) crashes immediately when I use traceroute6 with
> > > >> an
> > > >> isatap-tunnel.
> > > >
> > > > I did some further tests. To trigger the crash you need
> > > >
> > > > * isatap-tunnel (probably any sit-tunnel will do it)
> > > > * raw-socket
> > > > * udp
> > > >
> > > > Using icmpv6 or tcp i.e. does not trigger it.
> > >
> > > Do you have a script to reproduce it?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the bug report!
> > > --
> >
> > Please Wolfgang try to revert 32dce968dd987adfb0c00946d78dad9154f64759
> > ("ipv6: Allow for partial checksums on non-ufo packets")
>
> Indeed, that fixes the problem.

Yes, setting skb->csum to 0 is clearly wrong for CHECKSUM_PARTIAL

Would you try :

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 7fde1f265c90e90f16291e6c861b6e242111c25b..694ae630e1ca67e25ab1e5f6dd0b3597db3669b0 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -1416,6 +1416,10 @@ alloc_new_skb:
data += fragheaderlen;
skb->transport_header = (skb->network_header +
fragheaderlen);
+ if (csummode == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
+ skb->csum_start = skb_transport_header(skb) - skb->head;
+ skb->csum_offset = offsetof(struct udphdr, check);
+ }
if (fraggap) {
skb->csum = skb_copy_and_csum_bits(
skb_prev, maxfraglen,



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