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Weiming Shi 6f1a9140ec net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions
Tunnel xmit functions (iptunnel_xmit, ip6tunnel_xmit) lack their own
recursion limit. When a bond device in broadcast mode has GRE tap
interfaces as slaves, and those GRE tunnels route back through the
bond, multicast/broadcast traffic triggers infinite recursion between
bond_xmit_broadcast() and ip_tunnel_xmit()/ip6_tnl_xmit(), causing
kernel stack overflow.

The existing XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT (8) in the no-qdisc path is not
sufficient because tunnel recursion involves route lookups and full IP
output, consuming much more stack per level. Use a lower limit of 4
(IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT) to prevent overflow.

Add recursion detection using dev_xmit_recursion helpers directly in
iptunnel_xmit() and ip6tunnel_xmit() to cover all IPv4/IPv6 tunnel
paths including UDP encapsulated tunnels (VXLAN, Geneve, etc.).

Move dev_xmit_recursion helpers from net/core/dev.h to public header
include/linux/netdevice.h so they can be used by tunnel code.

 BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in blake2s.constprop.0+0xe7/0x160
 Write of size 32 at addr ffff88810033fed0 by task kworker/0:1/11
 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __build_flow_key.constprop.0 (net/ipv4/route.c:515)
  ip_rt_update_pmtu (net/ipv4/route.c:1073)
  iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:84)
  ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847)
  gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802)
  bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312)
  bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279)
  bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841)
  ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237)
  ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438)
  iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86)
  gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802)
  bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312)
  bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279)
  bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841)
  ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237)
  ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438)
  iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86)
  ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847)
  gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802)
  bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312)
  bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279)
  bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841)
  mld_sendpack
  mld_ifc_work
  process_one_work
  worker_thread
  </TASK>

Fixes: 745e20f1b6 ("net: add a recursion limit in xmit path")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306160133.3852900-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-03-10 13:30:30 +01:00
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