MR: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/7330
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-101033
Upstream Status: net.git
commit e3c674db356c4303804b2415e7c2b11776cdd8c3
Author: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Date: Thu Sep 4 14:53:50 2025 +0200
tunnels: reset the GSO metadata before reusing the skb
If a GSO skb is sent through a Geneve tunnel and if Geneve options are
added, the split GSO skb might not fit in the MTU anymore and an ICMP
frag needed packet can be generated. In such case the ICMP packet might
go through the segmentation logic (and dropped) later if it reaches a
path were the GSO status is checked and segmentation is required.
This is especially true when an OvS bridge is used with a Geneve tunnel
attached to it. The following set of actions could lead to the ICMP
packet being wrongfully segmented:
1. An skb is constructed by the TCP layer (e.g. gso_type SKB_GSO_TCPV4,
segs >= 2).
2. The skb hits the OvS bridge where Geneve options are added by an OvS
action before being sent through the tunnel.
3. When the skb is xmited in the tunnel, the split skb does not fit
anymore in the MTU and iptunnel_pmtud_build_icmp is called to
generate an ICMP fragmentation needed packet. This is done by reusing
the original (GSO!) skb. The GSO metadata is not cleared.
4. The ICMP packet being sent back hits the OvS bridge again and because
skb_is_gso returns true, it goes through queue_gso_packets...
5. ...where __skb_gso_segment is called. The skb is then dropped.
6. Note that in the above example on re-transmission the skb won't be a
GSO one as it would be segmented (len > MSS) and the ICMP packet
should go through.
Fix this by resetting the GSO information before reusing an skb in
iptunnel_pmtud_build_icmp and iptunnel_pmtud_build_icmpv6.
Fixes: 4cb47a8644 ("tunnels: PMTU discovery support for directly bridged IP packets")
Reported-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250904125351.159740-1-atenart@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sdubroca@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Approved-by: CKI KWF Bot <cki-ci-bot+kwf-gitlab-com@redhat.com>
Merged-by: Patrick Talbert <ptalbert@redhat.com>
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