Add selftest for the IPv6 fragmentation regression which affected several stable kernels.
Commit a18dfa9925b9 ("ipv6: save dontfrag in cork") was backported to stable without some prerequisite commits. This caused a regression when sending IPv6 UDP packets by preventing fragmentation and instead returning -1 (EMSGSIZE).
Add selftest to check for this issue by attempting to send a packet larger than the interface MTU. The packet will be fragmented on a working kernel, with sendmsg(2) correctly returning the expected number of bytes sent. When the regression is present, sendmsg returns -1 and sets errno to EMSGSIZE.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/aElivdUXqd1OqgMY@karahi.gladserv.com Signed-off-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com --- Thanks again Willem for the review.
v6 changes: - port -> network byte order - remove unecessary variable err - check return value of close()
v5 changes: - disable_dad: delete - not needed for lo - main: simplify failure paths - main: char -> static char buf - setup: remove pointless return value - setup: remove unused variable fd - setup: merge with interface_up() to simplify - setup: check all system call return values - remove no longer used headers
v4 changes: - fix "else should follow close brace" (checkpatch ERROR)
v3 changes: - add usleep instead of busy polling on sendmsg - simplify error handling by using error() and leaving cleanup to O/S - use loopback interface - don't bother creating TAP - send to localhost (::1)
v2 changes: - remove superfluous namespace calls - unshare(2) suffices - remove usleep(). Don't wait for the interface to be ready, just send, and handle the (less likely) error case by retrying. - set destination address only once - document our use of the IPv6 link-local source address - send to port 9 (DISCARD) instead of 4242 (DONT PANIC) - ensure sockets are closed on failure paths - use KSFT exit codes for clarity
v5: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250902142502.27278-1-bacs@librecast.net v4: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250901123757.13112-1-bacs@librecast.net v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250901112248.5218-1-bacs@librecast.net v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250831102908.14655-1-bacs@librecast.net v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250825092548.4436-3-bacs@librecast.net
tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 1 + .../selftests/net/ipv6_fragmentation.c | 114 ++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 116 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/ipv6_fragmentation.c
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore index 47c293c2962f..3d4b4a53dfda 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ ip_local_port_range ipsec ipv6_flowlabel ipv6_flowlabel_mgr +ipv6_fragmentation log.txt msg_oob msg_zerocopy diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile index eef0b8f8a7b0..276e0481d996 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ TEST_GEN_FILES += tfo TEST_PROGS += tfo_passive.sh TEST_PROGS += broadcast_pmtu.sh TEST_PROGS += ipv6_force_forwarding.sh +TEST_GEN_PROGS += ipv6_fragmentation TEST_PROGS += route_hint.sh
# YNL files, must be before "include ..lib.mk" diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ipv6_fragmentation.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ipv6_fragmentation.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..267ef62b5c72 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ipv6_fragmentation.c @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* + * Author: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net + * + * Kernel selftest for the IPv6 fragmentation regression which affected stable + * kernels: + * + * https://lore.kernel.org/stable/aElivdUXqd1OqgMY@karahi.gladserv.com + * + * Commit: a18dfa9925b9 ("ipv6: save dontfrag in cork") was backported to stable + * without some prerequisite commits. + * + * This caused a regression when sending IPv6 UDP packets by preventing + * fragmentation and instead returning -1 (EMSGSIZE). + * + * This selftest demonstrates the issue by sending an IPv6 UDP packet to + * localhost (::1) on the loopback interface from the autoconfigured link-local + * address. + * + * sendmsg(2) returns bytes sent correctly on a working kernel, and returns -1 + * (EMSGSIZE) when the regression is present. + * + * The regression was not present in the mainline kernel, but add this test to + * catch similar breakage in future. + */ + +#define _GNU_SOURCE + +#include <error.h> +#include <net/if.h> +#include <netinet/in.h> +#include <sched.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <sys/ioctl.h> +#include <sys/socket.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include "../kselftest.h" + +#define MTU 1500 +#define LARGER_THAN_MTU 8192 + +static void setup(void) +{ + struct ifreq ifr = { + .ifr_name = "lo" + }; + int ctl; + + /* we need to set MTU, so do this in a namespace to play nicely */ + if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNET) == -1) + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "unshare"); + + ctl = socket(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0); + if (ctl == -1) + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "socket"); + + /* ensure MTU is smaller than what we plan to send */ + ifr.ifr_mtu = MTU; + if (ioctl(ctl, SIOCSIFMTU, &ifr) == -1) + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "ioctl: set MTU"); + + /* bring up interface */ + if (ioctl(ctl, SIOCGIFFLAGS, &ifr) == -1) + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "ioctl SIOCGIFFLAGS"); + ifr.ifr_flags = ifr.ifr_flags | IFF_UP; + if (ioctl(ctl, SIOCSIFFLAGS, &ifr) == -1) + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "ioctl: bring interface up"); + + if (close(ctl) == -1) + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "close"); +} + +int main(void) +{ + struct in6_addr addr = { + .s6_addr[15] = 0x01, /* ::1 */ + }; + struct sockaddr_in6 sa = { + .sin6_family = AF_INET6, + .sin6_addr = addr, + .sin6_port = htons(9) /* port 9/udp (DISCARD) */ + }; + static char buf[LARGER_THAN_MTU] = {0}; + struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = sizeof(buf) }; + struct msghdr msg = { + .msg_iov = &iov, + .msg_iovlen = 1, + .msg_name = (struct sockaddr *)&sa, + .msg_namelen = sizeof(sa), + }; + ssize_t rc; + int s; + + printf("Testing IPv6 fragmentation\n"); + setup(); + s = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); +send_again: + rc = sendmsg(s, &msg, 0); + if (rc == -1) { + /* if interface wasn't ready, try again */ + if (errno == EADDRNOTAVAIL) { + usleep(1000); + goto send_again; + } + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "sendmsg"); + } else if (rc != LARGER_THAN_MTU) { + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "sendmsg returned %zi, expected %i", + rc, LARGER_THAN_MTU); + } + printf("[PASS] sendmsg() returned %zi\n", rc); + if (close(s) == -1) + error(KSFT_FAIL, errno, "close"); + return KSFT_PASS; +}
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