On an HSR RedBox, frames forwarded to the interlink go through hsr_get_untagged_frame() and arrive in hsr_xmit() as skb_clone(frame->skb_std). Two reachable alias cases make the writes there unsafe: (a) A tagged multicast or broadcast frame received on a slave is also delivered to the master through another clone of the same buffer: hsr_deliver_master() writes the node MAC and hsr_xmit() writes hsr->macaddress_redbox into the same six source bytes, so the local stack receives the RedBox MAC instead of the originating node's - deterministic without backpressure. (b) A master-originated frame forwarded to the interlink aliases the original TX skb, which packet taps or the TX path may still hold. The master-origin substitutions (hsr_addr_subst_dest() and the outgoing-slave source write) and the RedBox rewrite would all modify that shared data. Privatize the interlink-bound skb with skb_cow() before any address mutation whenever it can alias a live consumer: for all master-originated frames, and for ring frames the master also consumes (is_local_dest && !is_local_exclusive - the exact inverse of the port loop's master skip rules, so the condition does not depend on port order). Every interlink skb reaching hsr_xmit() is a clone from get_untagged_frame(), so the selected cases always pay one private copy. On the hardware tag-insertion path, the selected master-originated and locally consumed ring frames are now isolated before the interlink address write: the interlink write can no longer change an already queued clone of the same frame. Ring frames the master does not consume (is_local_dest == false, e.g. unicast ring-to-SAN) keep the zero-copy path; aliases that already exist there - for example between the interlink clone and a peer slave's hardware-tag-insertion clone - are pre-existing and unchanged by this patch. On allocation failure the frame is dropped with the same accounting as a tagged-frame creation failure. Fixes: 5055cccfc2d1 ("net: hsr: Provide RedBox support (HSR-SAN)") Signed-off-by: Xin Xie --- net/hsr/hsr_forward.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c b/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c index 0774981a65..67aaf5a862 100644 --- a/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c +++ b/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c @@ -420,6 +420,22 @@ static void hsr_deliver_master(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, static int hsr_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct hsr_port *port, struct hsr_frame_info *frame) { + /* An interlink-bound skb from get_untagged_frame() can still alias + * another live consumer: for master-originated frames the clone + * shares the original TX skb (which taps or the TX path may still + * hold); for ring frames the master also consumes them when they + * are destined to the local node without being exclusive to it. + * Privatize before any address mutation. + */ + if (port->type == HSR_PT_INTERLINK && + (frame->port_rcv->type == HSR_PT_MASTER || + (frame->is_local_dest && !frame->is_local_exclusive)) && + skb_cow(skb, 0)) { + frame->port_rcv->dev->stats.rx_dropped++; + kfree_skb(skb); + return NET_XMIT_DROP; + } + if (frame->port_rcv->type == HSR_PT_MASTER) { hsr_addr_subst_dest(frame->node_src, skb, port); -- 2.43.0