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Re: [PATCH net-next 14/15] net/tls: don't BUG() on leftover length in __skb_nsg()


  • To: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:12:53 -0700
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 6:51 AM Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> __skb_nsg() counts the scatterlist entries for a range of an skb with a
> copy of the __skb_to_sgvec() walk, including its BUG_ON(len) when the
> skb runs out before the range does.  tls_decrypt_sg() calls it on the
> same range it then passes to skb_to_sgvec(), so a bad range would BUG()
> here before it got to skb_to_sgvec()'s error return.
>
> __skb_nsg() already returns -EMSGSIZE for a frag_list nested too deep,
> and tls_decrypt_sg() fails the record on any return below 1.  Return
> -EINVAL for the leftover length too, with a DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE() for
> debug kernels.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/tls/tls_sw.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
> index 312e51270f29..1c578ea47a1b 100644
> --- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
> +++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
> @@ -142,7 +142,10 @@ static int __skb_nsg(struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, 
> int len,
>                          start = end;
>                  }
>          }
> -        BUG_ON(len);
> +       if (unlikely(len)) {
> +               DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +       }

Ugh, why DEBUG_NET_WARN...? Seems WARN_ON_ONCE() is more appropriate,
after all we're downgrading from a BUG_ON(). Another nice thing is
that it could have been done inline:

if (unlikely(WARN_ON_ONCE(len)))
  return -EINVAL;

But I suppose it doesn't matter much

Acked-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Thanks,
Mina



 


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