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<title>kernel/linux.git/include/net/ip6_fib.h, branch v6.6.132</title>
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<updated>2026-04-02T11:07:18+00:00</updated>
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<title>ipv6: Don't remove permanent routes with exceptions from tb6_gc_hlist.</title>
<updated>2026-04-02T11:07:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@google.com</email>
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<published>2026-03-20T07:23:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4be7b99c253f0c85a255cc1db7127ba3232dfa30 ]

The cited commit mechanically put fib6_remove_gc_list()
just after every fib6_clean_expires() call.

When a temporary route is promoted to a permanent route,
there may already be exception routes tied to it.

If fib6_remove_gc_list() removes the route from tb6_gc_hlist,
such exception routes will no longer be aged.

Let's replace fib6_remove_gc_list() with a new helper
fib6_may_remove_gc_list() and use fib6_age_exceptions() there.

Note that net-&gt;ipv6 is only compiled when CONFIG_IPV6 is
enabled, so fib6_{add,remove,may_remove}_gc_list() are guarded.

Fixes: 5eb902b8e719 ("net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260320072317.2561779-3-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:21:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kui-Feng Lee</name>
<email>thinker.li@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-08T22:06:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5eb902b8e7193cdcb33242af0a56502e6b5206e9 ]

FIB6 GC walks trees of fib6_tables to remove expired routes. Walking a tree
can be expensive if the number of routes in a table is big, even if most of
them are permanent. Checking routes in a separated list of routes having
expiration will avoid this potential issue.

Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kui-Feng Lee &lt;thinker.li@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Stable-dep-of: f72514b3c569 ("ipv6: clear RA flags when adding a static route")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv6: introduce dst_rt6_info() helper</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T18:59:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-26T15:19:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e8dfd42c17faf183415323db1ef0c977be0d6489 ]

Instead of (struct rt6_info *)dst casts, we can use :

 #define dst_rt6_info(_ptr) \
         container_of_const(_ptr, struct rt6_info, dst)

Some places needed missing const qualifiers :

ip6_confirm_neigh(), ipv6_anycast_destination(),
ipv6_unicast_destination(), has_gateway()

v2: added missing parts (David Ahern)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3301ab7d5aeb ("net/ipv6: release expired exception dst cached in socket")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/ipv6: Revert remove expired routes with a separated list of routes</title>
<updated>2024-01-01T12:42:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsahern@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-19T03:02:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dade3f6a1e4e35a5ae916d5e78b3229ec34c78ec ]

This reverts commit 3dec89b14d37ee635e772636dad3f09f78f1ab87.

The commit has some race conditions given how expires is managed on a
fib6_info in relation to gc start, adding the entry to the gc list and
setting the timer value leading to UAF. Revert the commit and try again
in a later release.

Fixes: 3dec89b14d37 ("net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes")
Cc: Kui-Feng Lee &lt;thinker.li@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219030243.25687-1-dsahern@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: fib: avoid warn splat in flow dissector</title>
<updated>2023-08-31T10:33:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-30T11:00:37+00:00</published>
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New skbs allocated via nf_send_reset() have skb-&gt;dev == NULL.

fib*_rules_early_flow_dissect helpers already have a 'struct net'
argument but its not passed down to the flow dissector core, which
will then WARN as it can't derive a net namespace to use:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/core/flow_dissector.c:1016 __skb_flow_dissect+0xa91/0x1cd0
 [..]
  ip_route_me_harder+0x143/0x330
  nf_send_reset+0x17c/0x2d0 [nf_reject_ipv4]
  nft_reject_inet_eval+0xa9/0xf2 [nft_reject_inet]
  nft_do_chain+0x198/0x5d0 [nf_tables]
  nft_do_chain_inet+0xa4/0x110 [nf_tables]
  nf_hook_slow+0x41/0xc0
  ip_local_deliver+0xce/0x110
  ..

Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Fixes: 812fa71f0d96 ("netfilter: Dissect flow after packet mangling")
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217826
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230830110043.30497-1-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T11:26:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kui-Feng Lee</name>
<email>thinker.li@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-15T18:07:05+00:00</published>
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FIB6 GC walks trees of fib6_tables to remove expired routes. Walking a tree
can be expensive if the number of routes in a table is big, even if most of
them are permanent. Checking routes in a separated list of routes having
expiration will avoid this potential issue.

Signed-off-by: Kui-Feng Lee &lt;thinker.li@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv6: Remove in6addr_any alternatives.</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T07:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-27T23:54:54+00:00</published>
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Some code defines the IPv6 wildcard address as a local variable and
use it with memcmp() or ipv6_addr_equal().

Let's use in6addr_any and ipv6_addr_any() instead.

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch &lt;mbloch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dst: Prevent false sharing vs. dst_entry:: __refcnt</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T01:52:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wangyang Guo</name>
<email>wangyang.guo@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-23T20:55:29+00:00</published>
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dst_entry::__refcnt is highly contended in scenarios where many connections
happen from and to the same IP. The reference count is an atomic_t, so the
reference count operations have to take the cache-line exclusive.

Aside of the unavoidable reference count contention there is another
significant problem which is caused by that: False sharing.

perf top identified two affected read accesses. dst_entry::lwtstate and
rtable::rt_genid.

dst_entry:__refcnt is located at offset 64 of dst_entry, which puts it into
a seperate cacheline vs. the read mostly members located at the beginning
of the struct.

That prevents false sharing vs. the struct members in the first 64
bytes of the structure, but there is also

  dst_entry::lwtstate

which is located after the reference count and in the same cache line. This
member is read after a reference count has been acquired.

struct rtable embeds a struct dst_entry at offset 0. struct dst_entry has a
size of 112 bytes, which means that the struct members of rtable which
follow the dst member share the same cache line as dst_entry::__refcnt.
Especially

  rtable::rt_genid

is also read by the contexts which have a reference count acquired
already.

When dst_entry:__refcnt is incremented or decremented via an atomic
operation these read accesses stall. This was found when analysing the
memtier benchmark in 1:100 mode, which amplifies the problem extremly.

Move the rt[6i]_uncached[_list] members out of struct rtable and struct
rt6_info into struct dst_entry to provide padding and move the lwtstate
member after that so it ends up in the same cache line.

The resulting improvement depends on the micro-architecture and the number
of CPUs. It ranges from +20% to +120% with a localhost memtier/memcached
benchmark.

[ tglx: Rearrange struct ]

Signed-off-by: Wangyang Guo &lt;wangyang.guo@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230323102800.042297517@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2022-02-17T19:44:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-17T19:44:20+00:00</published>
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No conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv6: fix data-race in fib6_info_hw_flags_set / fib6_purge_rt</title>
<updated>2022-02-17T17:48:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-16T17:32:17+00:00</published>
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Because fib6_info_hw_flags_set() is called without any synchronization,
all accesses to gi6-&gt;offload, fi-&gt;trap and fi-&gt;offload_failed
need some basic protection like READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE().

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in fib6_info_hw_flags_set / fib6_purge_rt

read to 0xffff8881087d5886 of 1 bytes by task 13953 on cpu 0:
 fib6_drop_pcpu_from net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1007 [inline]
 fib6_purge_rt+0x4f/0x580 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1033
 fib6_del_route net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1983 [inline]
 fib6_del+0x696/0x890 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2028
 __ip6_del_rt net/ipv6/route.c:3876 [inline]
 ip6_del_rt+0x83/0x140 net/ipv6/route.c:3891
 __ipv6_dev_ac_dec+0x2b5/0x370 net/ipv6/anycast.c:374
 ipv6_dev_ac_dec net/ipv6/anycast.c:387 [inline]
 __ipv6_sock_ac_close+0x141/0x200 net/ipv6/anycast.c:207
 ipv6_sock_ac_close+0x79/0x90 net/ipv6/anycast.c:220
 inet6_release+0x32/0x50 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:476
 __sock_release net/socket.c:650 [inline]
 sock_close+0x6c/0x150 net/socket.c:1318
 __fput+0x295/0x520 fs/file_table.c:280
 ____fput+0x11/0x20 fs/file_table.c:313
 task_work_run+0x8e/0x110 kernel/task_work.c:164
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:175 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x160/0x190 kernel/entry/common.c:207
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:289 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x20/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:300
 do_syscall_64+0x50/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

write to 0xffff8881087d5886 of 1 bytes by task 1912 on cpu 1:
 fib6_info_hw_flags_set+0x155/0x3b0 net/ipv6/route.c:6230
 nsim_fib6_rt_hw_flags_set drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:668 [inline]
 nsim_fib6_rt_add drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:691 [inline]
 nsim_fib6_rt_insert drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:756 [inline]
 nsim_fib6_event drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:853 [inline]
 nsim_fib_event drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:886 [inline]
 nsim_fib_event_work+0x284f/0x2cf0 drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:1477
 process_one_work+0x3f6/0x960 kernel/workqueue.c:2307
 worker_thread+0x616/0xa70 kernel/workqueue.c:2454
 kthread+0x2c7/0x2e0 kernel/kthread.c:327
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

value changed: 0x22 -&gt; 0x2a

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 1912 Comm: kworker/1:3 Not tainted 5.16.0-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: events nsim_fib_event_work

Fixes: 0c5fcf9e249e ("IPv6: Add "offload failed" indication to routes")
Fixes: bb3c4ab93e44 ("ipv6: Add "offload" and "trap" indications to routes")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amit Cohen &lt;amcohen@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216173217.3792411-2-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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