The pointer arithmentic for accessing the tail tag only works for linear skbs.

For nonlinear skbs, it reads uninitialized memory inside the skb headroom, essentially randomizing the tag. I have observed it gets set to 6 most of the time.

Example where ksz9477_rcv thinks that the packet from port 1 comes from port 6 (which does not exist for the ksz9896 that's in use), dropping the packet. Debug prints added by me (not included in this patch):

[ 256.645337] ksz9477_rcv:323 tag0=6 [ 256.645349] skb len=47 headroom=78 headlen=0 tailroom=0 mac=(64,14) mac_len=14 net=(78,0) trans=78 shinfo(txflags=0 nr_frags=1 gso(size=0 type=0 segs=0)) csum(0x0 start=0 offset=0 ip_summed=0 complete_sw=0 valid=0 level=0) hash(0x0 sw=0 l4=0) proto=0x00f8 pkttype=1 iif=3 priority=0x0 mark=0x0 alloc_cpu=0 vlan_all=0x0 encapsulation=0 inner(proto=0x0000, mac=0, net=0, trans=0) [ 256.645377] dev name=end1 feat=0x0002e10200114bb3 [ 256.645386] skb headroom: 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645395] skb headroom: 00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645403] skb headroom: 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645411] skb headroom: 00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645420] skb headroom: 00000040: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 1c 19 f2 e2 db 08 06 [ 256.645428] skb frag: 00000000: 00 01 08 00 06 04 00 01 00 1c 19 f2 e2 db 0a 02 [ 256.645436] skb frag: 00000010: 00 83 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 02 a0 2f 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645444] skb frag: 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 [ 256.645452] ksz_common_rcv:92 dsa_conduit_find_user returned NULL

Call skb_linearize before trying to access the tag.

This patch fixes ksz9477_rcv which is used by the ksz9896 I have at hand, and also applies the same fix to ksz8795_rcv which seems to have the same problem.

Signed-off-by: Jakob Unterwurzacher jakob.unterwurzacher@cherry.de CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 016e43a26bab ("net: dsa: ksz: Add KSZ8795 tag code") Fixes: 8b8010fb7876 ("dsa: add support for Microchip KSZ tail tagging") Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean olteanv@gmail.com --- v1: Initial submission https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250509071820.4100022-1-jakob.unterwurzacher... v2: Add Fixes tags, Cc stable, "[PATCH net]" prefix https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250512144416.3697054-1-jakob.unterwurzacher... v3: Move declarations before skb_linearize call, pick up Reviewed-By

net/dsa/tag_ksz.c | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/dsa/tag_ksz.c b/net/dsa/tag_ksz.c index c33d4bf17929..0b7564b53790 100644 --- a/net/dsa/tag_ksz.c +++ b/net/dsa/tag_ksz.c @@ -140,7 +140,12 @@ static struct sk_buff *ksz8795_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)

static struct sk_buff *ksz8795_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { - u8 *tag = skb_tail_pointer(skb) - KSZ_EGRESS_TAG_LEN; + u8 *tag; + + if (skb_linearize(skb)) + return NULL; + + tag = skb_tail_pointer(skb) - KSZ_EGRESS_TAG_LEN;

return ksz_common_rcv(skb, dev, tag[0] & KSZ8795_TAIL_TAG_EG_PORT_M, KSZ_EGRESS_TAG_LEN); @@ -311,10 +316,16 @@ static struct sk_buff *ksz9477_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,

static struct sk_buff *ksz9477_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { - /* Tag decoding */ - u8 *tag = skb_tail_pointer(skb) - KSZ_EGRESS_TAG_LEN; - unsigned int port = tag[0] & KSZ9477_TAIL_TAG_EG_PORT_M; unsigned int len = KSZ_EGRESS_TAG_LEN; + unsigned int port; + u8 *tag; + + if (skb_linearize(skb)) + return NULL; + + /* Tag decoding */ + tag = skb_tail_pointer(skb) - KSZ_EGRESS_TAG_LEN; + port = tag[0] & KSZ9477_TAIL_TAG_EG_PORT_M;

/* Extra 4-bytes PTP timestamp */ if (tag[0] & KSZ9477_PTP_TAG_INDICATION) {