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chromium: disable IP_TOS for UDP
On Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:19:49 +0200,
"Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:
>
> We need to do something, or chrome will keep doing these coredumps.
>
I vote for your way. It is way simpler whan fixing the wild world, because
each fix needs someone to investigate why it crashes.
> > Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> >
> > > Seems that new chromium plays with TOS at UDP for HTTP/3 and our pledge
> > > prevents it, and kills the process. It dumps ~100Mb core and after that it
> > > fallback to HTTP/1.1.
> >
> > We are encountering this too many places, so I'd like everyone to consider
> > this 2-step approach, becuase Linux dual-stack has utterly poisoned the
> > ecosystem and noone looks at setsockopt return values accurately.
> >
> > 1. netinet6 accepts IPPROTO_IP/IP_TOS and converts it to IPPROTO_IPV6/IPV6_TCLASS
> >
> > 2. For programs which are pledged, allow that through
> >
> > Index: netinet6/ip6_output.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_output.c,v
> > diff -u -p -u -r1.308 ip6_output.c
> > --- netinet6/ip6_output.c 5 Aug 2026 09:43:19 -0000 1.308
> > +++ netinet6/ip6_output.c 8 Sep 2026 23:53:46 -0000
> > @@ -1032,6 +1032,12 @@ ip6_ctloutput(int op, struct socket *so,
> > privileged = (inp->inp_socket->so_state & SS_PRIV);
> > uproto = (int)so->so_proto->pr_protocol;
> >
> > + /* Linux poisoned the ecosystem */
> > + if (level == IPPROTO_IP && optname == IP_TOS) {
> > + level = IPPROTO_IPV6;
> > + optname = IPV6_TCLASS;
> > + }
> > +
> > if (level != IPPROTO_IPV6)
> > return (EINVAL);
> >
> >
> > Index: kern/kern_pledge.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/kern_pledge.c,v
> > diff -u -p -u -r1.365 kern_pledge.c
> > --- kern/kern_pledge.c 4 Sep 2026 02:38:28 -0000 1.365
> > +++ kern/kern_pledge.c 8 Sep 2026 23:37:52 -0000
> > @@ -1451,9 +1464,17 @@ pledge_sockopt(struct proc *p, int set,
> > }
> > break;
> > case AF_INET6:
> > - if (level == IPPROTO_IPV6) {
> > + switch (level) {
> > + case IPPROTO_IPV6:
> > switch (optname) {
> > case IPV6_TCLASS:
> > + return (0);
> > + }
> > + break;
> > + /* Because Linux makes the universe stink */
> > + case IPPROTO_IP:
> > + switch (optname) {
> > + case IP_TOS:
> > return (0);
> > }
> > }
> >
>
--
wbr, Kirill
chromium: disable IP_TOS for UDP