Subject: [syzbot ci] Re: l2tp: account for IP version in SKB headroom

From: syzbot ci <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:12:33 -0800

syzbot ci has tested the following series

[v1] l2tp: account for IP version in SKB headroom
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]
* [PATCH net-next 1/2] l2tp: account for IP version in SKB headroom
* [PATCH net-next 2/2] l2tp: unify headroom calculation

and found the following issue:
general protection fault in l2tp_eth_create

Full report is available here:
https://ci.syzbot.org/series/10f6234e-88a0-41c8-b9d2-a3e54f289fbd

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general protection fault in l2tp_eth_create

tree:      net-next
URL:       https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git
base:      58e443b773ef054ae069cf777ba19adb99d73829
arch:      amd64
compiler:  Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8
config:    https://ci.syzbot.org/builds/66fb3a44-8edb-4c92-9149-328653e46ccd/config
C repro:   https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/9b3d30fe-b87f-4b00-99a6-464f0a271312/c_repro
syz repro: https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/9b3d30fe-b87f-4b00-99a6-464f0a271312/syz_repro

netlink: 8 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `syz.0.17'.
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000012: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000090-0x0000000000000097]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5971 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:l2tp_session_udp_hdrlen net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h:340 [inline]
RIP: 0010:l2tp_session_overhead net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h:346 [inline]
RIP: 0010:l2tp_eth_adjust_mtu net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c:202 [inline]
RIP: 0010:l2tp_eth_create+0x2cd/0xca0 net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c:250
Code: 48 89 44 24 58 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 b9 68 54 f7 48 89 5c 24 60 4c 8b 33 4d 8d a6 94 00 00 00 4c 89 e0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 35 08 00 00 45 8b 24 24 31 ff 44 89 e6
RSP: 0018:ffffc900040c7160 EFLAGS: 00010207
RAX: 0000000000000012 RBX: ffff888114d00020 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888104f90000 RSI: 0000000000000028 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900040c7270 R08: 0000000000400dc0 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2022f77 R12: 0000000000000094
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888114d00000
FS:  0000555574b08500(0000) GS:ffff8882a9467000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055a269259270 CR3: 0000000105770000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 l2tp_nl_cmd_session_create+0x766/0xc60 net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c:639
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22a/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x61c/0x7a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1218
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa68/0xad0 net/socket.c:2592
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2646
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2678 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2683 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2681 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2681
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f371079c799
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fff7e0100f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3710a15fa0 RCX: 00007f371079c799
RDX: 0000000020000034 RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f3710832bd9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f3710a15fac R14: 00007f3710a15fa0 R15: 00007f3710a15fa0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:l2tp_session_udp_hdrlen net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h:340 [inline]
RIP: 0010:l2tp_session_overhead net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h:346 [inline]
RIP: 0010:l2tp_eth_adjust_mtu net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c:202 [inline]
RIP: 0010:l2tp_eth_create+0x2cd/0xca0 net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c:250
Code: 48 89 44 24 58 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 b9 68 54 f7 48 89 5c 24 60 4c 8b 33 4d 8d a6 94 00 00 00 4c 89 e0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 35 08 00 00 45 8b 24 24 31 ff 44 89 e6
RSP: 0018:ffffc900040c7160 EFLAGS: 00010207
RAX: 0000000000000012 RBX: ffff888114d00020 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888104f90000 RSI: 0000000000000028 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900040c7270 R08: 0000000000400dc0 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2022f77 R12: 0000000000000094
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888114d00000
FS:  0000555574b08500(0000) GS:ffff8882a9467000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055a269259270 CR3: 0000000105770000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	48 89 44 24 58       	mov    %rax,0x58(%rsp)
   5:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1)
   a:	74 08                	je     0x14
   c:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
   f:	e8 b9 68 54 f7       	call   0xf75468cd
  14:	48 89 5c 24 60       	mov    %rbx,0x60(%rsp)
  19:	4c 8b 33             	mov    (%rbx),%r14
  1c:	4d 8d a6 94 00 00 00 	lea    0x94(%r14),%r12
  23:	4c 89 e0             	mov    %r12,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 0f b6 04 28       	movzbl (%rax,%r13,1),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  31:	0f 85 35 08 00 00    	jne    0x86c
  37:	45 8b 24 24          	mov    (%r12),%r12d
  3b:	31 ff                	xor    %edi,%edi
  3d:	44 89 e6             	mov    %r12d,%esi

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