Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: zero unused hash fields

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:17:09 +0100

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 12:01:55PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> When GSO tunnel is negotiated virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb() tries to
> initialize the tunnel metadata but forget to zero unused rxhash
> fields. This may leak information to another side. Fixing this by
> zeroing the unused hash fields.
> 
> Fixes: a2fb4bc4e2a6a ("net: implement virtio helpers to handle UDP GSO tunneling")x

nit: there is a stray 'x' at the end of the line above

> Cc: <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  include/linux/virtio_net.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> index 20e0584db1dd..4d1780848d0e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> @@ -401,6 +401,10 @@ virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb(const struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	if (!tnl_hdr_negotiated)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +        vhdr->hash_hdr.hash_value = 0;
> +        vhdr->hash_hdr.hash_report = 0;
> +        vhdr->hash_hdr.padding = 0;
> +

nit: The indentation seems off, probably a spaces vs tabs issue

>  	/* Let the basic parsing deal with plain GSO features. */
>  	skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type &= ~tnl_gso_type;
>  	ret = virtio_net_hdr_from_skb(skb, hdr, true, false, vlan_hlen);
> -- 
> 2.42.0
> 
>