The second half of the MTU guard in __ip6_append_data() has been dead code since the initial git import: if (mtu <= fragheaderlen || ((mtu - fragheaderlen) & ~7) + fragheaderlen <= sizeof(struct frag_hdr)) goto emsgsize; (x & ~7) is unsigned and >= 0, and fragheaderlen is at least sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) = 40 > sizeof(struct frag_hdr) = 8, so the second condition can never be true. For mtu - fragheaderlen in [1,7], (x & ~7) == 0, so maxfraglen = ((mtu - fragheaderlen) & ~7) + fragheaderlen - 8 underflows below fragheaderlen. Every later bound computed as maxfraglen - fragheaderlen then wraps to 0xfffffff8, in particular the datalen clamp inside the fragment loop, which never fires and lets fraglen = datalen + fragheaderlen escape the MTU constraint. With MSG_MORE on an egress device without NETIF_F_SG, alloclen = mtu while skb_put() is called with the unclamped fraglen, so a single sendmsg() on a raw IPv6 socket with a 1240-byte HOPOPTS cmsg and IPV6_MTU = fragheaderlen + 1 triggers: skbuff: skb_over_panic: len:61280 put:61280 ... kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c skb_put __ip6_append_data ip6_append_data rawv6_sendmsg The same re-lowering exists with a transport-mode xfrm bundle: ESP/AH bytes counted in rt->dst.header_len are not part of fragheaderlen (ESP lacks XFRM_TYPE_NON_FRAGMENT), and ip6_append_data_mtu() subtracts dst.header_len from mtu for the first fragment, so after the entry guard passes, the recomputed maxfraglen can be pushed below fragheaderlen the same way. Replace the dead expression with a single check that requires room for at least one 8-octet payload block after the fragment header, matching the minimum ip6_fragment() already enforces: reserved_headerlen = fragheaderlen; if (!skb && !(rt->dst.flags & DST_XFRM_TUNNEL)) reserved_headerlen += rt->dst.header_len; if (mtu < reserved_headerlen + sizeof(struct frag_hdr) + 8) goto emsgsize; For the transport-mode xfrm case, pre-reserving dst.header_len in the entry check makes the later ip6_append_data_mtu() recompute safe: the subtracted mtu still satisfies the same minimum, so the recomputed maxfraglen cannot drop below fragheaderlen either. The check runs before any zerocopy uarg is allocated, so the emsgsize path needs no cleanup. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: bo cao --- Changes in v3: collapse the fix into the entry check of __ip6_append_data() and leave ip6_append_data_mtu() unchanged, as suggested in review of v2; this also removes the emsgsize cleanup hazard for the zerocopy uarg and the separate maxfraglen check. --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c index 25fe0ba98b1a..936dad85f1c9 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ static int __ip6_append_data(struct sock *sk, bool paged, hold_tskey = false, extra_uref = false; struct ipv6_txoptions *opt = v6_cork->opt; int csummode = CHECKSUM_NONE; - unsigned int maxnonfragsize, headersize; + unsigned int maxnonfragsize, headersize, reserved_headerlen; unsigned int wmem_alloc_delta = 0; skb = skb_peek_tail(queue); @@ -1499,8 +1499,11 @@ static int __ip6_append_data(struct sock *sk, (opt ? opt->opt_flen + opt->opt_nflen : 0) + rt->rt6i_nfheader_len; - if (mtu <= fragheaderlen || - ((mtu - fragheaderlen) & ~7) + fragheaderlen <= sizeof(struct frag_hdr)) + reserved_headerlen = fragheaderlen; + if (!skb && !(rt->dst.flags & DST_XFRM_TUNNEL)) + reserved_headerlen += rt->dst.header_len; + + if (mtu < reserved_headerlen + sizeof(struct frag_hdr) + 8) goto emsgsize; maxfraglen = ((mtu - fragheaderlen) & ~7) + fragheaderlen - -- 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)