linux/net/packet
Chengen Du 79eecf631c af_packet: Handle outgoing VLAN packets without hardware offloading
The issue initially stems from libpcap. The ethertype will be overwritten
as the VLAN TPID if the network interface lacks hardware VLAN offloading.
In the outbound packet path, if hardware VLAN offloading is unavailable,
the VLAN tag is inserted into the payload but then cleared from the sk_buff
struct. Consequently, this can lead to a false negative when checking for
the presence of a VLAN tag, causing the packet sniffing outcome to lack
VLAN tag information (i.e., TCI-TPID). As a result, the packet capturing
tool may be unable to parse packets as expected.

The TCI-TPID is missing because the prb_fill_vlan_info() function does not
modify the tp_vlan_tci/tp_vlan_tpid values, as the information is in the
payload and not in the sk_buff struct. The skb_vlan_tag_present() function
only checks vlan_all in the sk_buff struct. In cooked mode, the L2 header
is stripped, preventing the packet capturing tool from determining the
correct TCI-TPID value. Additionally, the protocol in SLL is incorrect,
which means the packet capturing tool cannot parse the L3 header correctly.

Link: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/1105
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240520070348.26725-1-chengen.du@canonical.com/T/#u
Fixes: 393e52e33c ("packet: deliver VLAN TCI to userspace")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chengen Du <chengen.du@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240713114735.62360-1-chengen.du@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-07-14 20:27:36 -07:00
..
af_packet.c af_packet: Handle outgoing VLAN packets without hardware offloading 2024-07-14 20:27:36 -07:00
diag.c net/packet: Add getsockopt support for PACKET_COPY_THRESH 2024-03-11 15:52:05 -07:00
internal.h packet: Move reference count in packet_sock to atomic_long_t 2023-12-04 14:45:04 -08:00
Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00