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authorQingfang Deng <qingfang.deng@linux.dev>2026-04-15 10:24:51 +0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-04-20 11:35:17 -0700
commitcc1ff87bce1ccd38410ab10960f576dcd17db679 (patch)
tree6d5bc0dc6df8cd6664041012d4a4740bca42baf0
parentd6c19b31a3c1d519fabdcf0aa239e6b6109b9473 (diff)
pppoe: drop PFC frames
RFC 2516 Section 7 states that Protocol Field Compression (PFC) is NOT RECOMMENDED for PPPoE. In practice, pppd does not support negotiating PFC for PPPoE sessions, and the current PPPoE driver assumes an uncompressed (2-byte) protocol field. However, the generic PPP layer function ppp_input() is not aware of the negotiation result, and still accepts PFC frames. If a peer with a broken implementation or an attacker sends a frame with a compressed (1-byte) protocol field, the subsequent PPP payload is shifted by one byte. This causes the network header to be 4-byte misaligned, which may trigger unaligned access exceptions on some architectures. To reduce the attack surface, drop PPPoE PFC frames. Introduce ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto() helper function to be used in both ppp_generic.c and pppoe.c to avoid open-coding. Fixes: 7fb1b8ca8fa1 ("ppp: Move PFC decompression to PPP generic layer") Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <qingfang.deng@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415022456.141758-2-qingfang.deng@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ppp_defs.h16
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
index b0d3bc49c685..57c68efa5ff8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -2245,7 +2245,7 @@ ppp_do_recv(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb, struct channel *pch)
*/
static void __ppp_decompress_proto(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- if (skb->data[0] & 0x01)
+ if (ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto(skb))
*(u8 *)skb_push(skb, 1) = 0x00;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
index d546a7af0d54..bdd61c504a1c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static int pppoe_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
if (skb_mac_header_len(skb) < ETH_HLEN)
goto drop;
- if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct pppoe_hdr)))
+ if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, PPPOE_SES_HLEN))
goto drop;
ph = pppoe_hdr(skb);
@@ -403,6 +403,12 @@ static int pppoe_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
if (skb->len < len)
goto drop;
+ /* skb->data points to the PPP protocol header after skb_pull_rcsum.
+ * Drop PFC frames.
+ */
+ if (ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto(skb))
+ goto drop;
+
if (pskb_trim_rcsum(skb, len))
goto drop;
diff --git a/include/linux/ppp_defs.h b/include/linux/ppp_defs.h
index b7e57fdbd413..b1d1f46d7d3b 100644
--- a/include/linux/ppp_defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ppp_defs.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#define _PPP_DEFS_H_
#include <linux/crc-ccitt.h>
+#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <uapi/linux/ppp_defs.h>
#define PPP_FCS(fcs, c) crc_ccitt_byte(fcs, c)
@@ -25,4 +26,19 @@ static inline bool ppp_proto_is_valid(u16 proto)
return !!((proto & 0x0101) == 0x0001);
}
+/**
+ * ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto - checks if PPP protocol in a skb is compressed
+ * @skb: skb to check
+ *
+ * Check if the PPP protocol field is compressed (the least significant
+ * bit of the most significant octet is 1). skb->data must point to the PPP
+ * protocol header.
+ *
+ * Return: Whether the PPP protocol field is compressed.
+ */
+static inline bool ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ return unlikely(skb->data[0] & 0x01);
+}
+
#endif /* _PPP_DEFS_H_ */