CVE-2025-21629

net: reenable NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM offload for BIG TCP packets

published January 15, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: reenable NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM offload for BIG TCP packets

The blamed commit disabled hardware offoad of IPv6 packets with

extension headers on devices that advertise NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM,

based on the definition of that feature in skbuff.h:

* * - %NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM

* - Driver (device) is only able to checksum plain

* TCP or UDP packets over IPv6. These are specifically

* unencapsulated packets of the form IPv6|TCP or

* IPv6|UDP where the Next Header field in the IPv6

* header is either TCP or UDP. IPv6 extension headers

* are not supported with this feature. This feature

* cannot be set in features for a device with

* NETIF_F_HW_CSUM also set. This feature is being

* DEPRECATED (see below).

The change causes skb_warn_bad_offload to fire for BIG TCP

packets.

[ 496.310233] WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 23472 at net/core/dev.c:3129 skb_warn_bad_offload+0xc4/0xe0

[ 496.310297] ? skb_warn_bad_offload+0xc4/0xe0

[ 496.310300] skb_checksum_help+0x129/0x1f0

[ 496.310303] skb_csum_hwoffload_help+0x150/0x1b0

[ 496.310306] validate_xmit_skb+0x159/0x270

[ 496.310309] validate_xmit_skb_list+0x41/0x70

[ 496.310312] sch_direct_xmit+0x5c/0x250

[ 496.310317] __qdisc_run+0x388/0x620

BIG TCP introduced an IPV6_TLV_JUMBO IPv6 extension header to

communicate packet length, as this is an IPv6 jumbogram. But, the

feature is only enabled on devices that support BIG TCP TSO. The

header is only present for PF_PACKET taps like tcpdump, and not

transmitted by physical devices.

For this specific case of extension headers that are not

transmitted, return to the situation before the blamed commit

and support hardware offload.

ipv6_has_hopopt_jumbo() tests not only whether this header is present,

but also that it is the only extension header before a terminal (L4)

header.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00430 · 36.2th percentile
Published
2025-01-15T13:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JAN 13:06Z
    net: reenable NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM offload for BIG TCP packets
    cvelistv5