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Zhiling Zou 6b222adeb9 net: cap advertised IP tunnel headroom
IP tunnel devices derive their advertised needed_headroom from lower
output devices. A stack of user-created devices can make the derived
value larger than the 16-bit skb header offsets can represent. Once IP
output reserves it, skb head expansion can wrap those offsets.

The runtime transmit path already caps a growing needed_headroom at 512.
Apply the same cap when tunnel configuration publishes needed_headroom
derived from a lower output device.

Capping the advertised value is safe: IP tunnel transmit still expands
the skb when a packet needs more headroom. A nonsensical stacked
configuration can therefore incur an extra reallocation, but it cannot
publish an unbounded reservation to upper layers.

Fixes: 1a37e412a0 ("net: Use 16bits for *_headers fields of struct skbuff")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ba04a1fd6bfae2377607fad5d8f80f7eb80fd4c4.1786542637.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-08-18 12:42:30 +02:00
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