net/sched: act_skbmod: fix length calculations and avoid invalid header warnings

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syzbot reported a warning in skb_network_header_len() triggered
by tcf_skbmod_act():

  !skb_transport_header_was_set(skb)
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14949 at include/linux/skbuff.h:3243 skb_network_header_len include/linux/skbuff.h:3243 [inline]
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14949 at net/sched/act_skbmod.c:55 tcf_skbmod_act+0xfe8/0x1810 net/sched/act_skbmod.c:55

There are a few issues in tcf_skbmod_act():

1. Calling skb_network_header_len() assumes skb->transport_header is set,
   which is not guaranteed when tcf_skbmod_act() runs at TC ingress.
2. Unconditionally calling skb_mac_header_len() at the beginning of
   tcf_skbmod_act() triggers a warning on L3 devices (e.g. TUN) where the
   MAC header is unset, evaluating to an underflowed garbage length.
3. On TC ingress, skb->data points to the network header. Adding the MAC
   header length to the IP header length causes skb_ensure_writable() to
   request more bytes than the actual IP packet length, dropping valid
   short packets (e.g. 28-byte UDP/IPv4 packets).

Fix these by:
- Using skb_network_offset(skb) + sizeof(struct iphdr/ipv6hdr) for
  SKBMOD_F_ECN so that the required length is correctly calculated on
  both ingress (offset == 0) and egress (offset == mac_len).
- Setting max_edit_len to ETH_HLEN for Ethernet header modifications
  after validating ARPHRD_ETHER.

Fixes: 56af5e749f ("net/sched: act_skbmod: Add SKBMOD_F_ECN option support")
Reported-by: syzbot+1d56f14f95c0480cfdc9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a8b39c0.dbb3a75c.13dd47.0051.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260823182241.1958695-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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Eric Dumazet 2026-08-23 18:22:41 +00:00 • committed by Paolo Abeni

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