[PATCH] mbuf: fix read packet data

Marat Khalili marat.khalili at huawei.com
Thu Mar 19 10:36:52 CET 2026


For the fix:

Acked-by: Marat Khalili <marat.khalili at huawei.com>

The tests will fail though and need to be adjusted to the correct behaviour.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
> Sent: Thursday 19 March 2026 08:41
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>; Marat Khalili <marat.khalili at huawei.com>;
> Christophe Fontaine <cfontain at redhat.com>; Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.v.ananyev at yandex.ru>;
> Wathsala Vithanage <wathsala.vithanage at arm.com>; Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>;
> stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] mbuf: fix read packet data
> 
> The sum of offset + length, both 32 bit unsigned integers, could wrap
> around, causing comparisons to give the wrong result.
> This was fixed by using 64 bit instead of 32 bit for calculating the sum.
> 
> Note:
> When the branch is not taken for the initial "if ((uint64_t)off + len >
> rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(m))" comparison, the sum is known to not exceed the
> maximum possible value of rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(m), UINT32_MAX, and
> following sum calculations can proceed using 32 bit.
> 
> Fixes: b84110e7baa2 ("mbuf: add function to read packet data")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
> ---
>  lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.c | 2 +-
>  lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.c b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
> index a5d16e4c97..c2476e7704 100644
> --- a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
> +++ b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
> @@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ const void *__rte_pktmbuf_read(const struct rte_mbuf *m, uint32_t off,
>  	const struct rte_mbuf *seg = m;
>  	uint32_t buf_off = 0, copy_len;
> 
> -	if (off + len > rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(m))
> +	if ((uint64_t)off + len > rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(m))
>  		return NULL;
> 
>  	while (off >= rte_pktmbuf_data_len(seg)) {
> diff --git a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
> index 592af2388c..d6602f74bc 100644
> --- a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
> +++ b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
> @@ -1843,7 +1843,7 @@ const void *__rte_pktmbuf_read(const struct rte_mbuf *m, uint32_t off,
>  static inline const void *rte_pktmbuf_read(const struct rte_mbuf *m,
>  	uint32_t off, uint32_t len, void *buf)
>  {
> -	if (likely(off + len <= rte_pktmbuf_data_len(m)))
> +	if (likely((uint64_t)off + len <= rte_pktmbuf_data_len(m)))
>  		return rte_pktmbuf_mtod_offset(m, char *, off);
>  	else
>  		return __rte_pktmbuf_read(m, off, len, buf);
> --
> 2.43.0
> 



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