kernel/linux.git/net/bridge/br_input.c, branch v6.6.131

net: bridge: fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled

2026-03-25T10:05:42+00:00

[ Upstream commit e5e890630533bdc15b26a34bb8e7ef539bdf1322 ] When booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, the nd_tbl is never initialized because inet6_init() exits before ndisc_init() is called which initializes it. Then, if neigh_suppress is enabled and an ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery packet reaches the bridge, br_do_suppress_nd() will dereference ipv6_stub->nd_tbl which is NULL, passing it to neigh_lookup(). This causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000268 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [...] RIP: 0010:neigh_lookup+0x16/0xe0 [...] Call Trace: ? neigh_lookup+0x16/0xe0 br_do_suppress_nd+0x160/0x290 [bridge] br_handle_frame_finish+0x500/0x620 [bridge] br_handle_frame+0x353/0x440 [bridge] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x298/0x1110 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x3d/0xa0 process_backlog+0xa0/0x140 __napi_poll+0x2c/0x170 net_rx_action+0x2c4/0x3a0 handle_softirqs+0xd0/0x270 do_softirq+0x3f/0x60 Fix this by replacing IS_ENABLED(IPV6) call with ipv6_mod_enabled() in the callers. This is in essence disabling NS/NA suppression when IPv6 is disabled. Fixes: ed842faeb2bd ("bridge: suppress nd pkts on BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS ports") Reported-by: Guruprasad C P Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHXs0ORzd62QOG-Fttqa2Cx_A_VFp=utE2H2VTX5nqfgs7LDxQ@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304120357.9778-1-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: bridge: fix static key check

2026-02-06T15:48:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit cc0cf10fdaeadf5542d64a55b5b4120d3df90b7d ] Fix the check if netfilter's static keys are available. netfilter defines and exports static keys if CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL is enabled. (HAVE_JUMP_LABEL is never defined.) Fixes: 971502d77faa ("bridge: netfilter: unroll NF_HOOK helper in bridge input path") Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127101925.1754425-1-martin@kaiser.cx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: bridge: annotate data-races around fdb->{updated,used}

2026-01-30T09:27:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit b25a0b4a2193407aa72a4cd1df66a7ed07dd4f1e ] fdb->updated and fdb->used are read and written locklessly. Add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations. Fixes: 31cbc39b6344 ("net: bridge: add option to allow activity notifications for any fdb entries") Reported-by: syzbot+bfab43087ad57222ce96@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/695e3d74.050a0220.1c677c.035f.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108093806.834459-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: bridge: fix use-after-free due to MST port state bypass

2025-11-24T09:29:53+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8dca36978aa80bab9d4da130c211db75c9e00048 ] syzbot reported[1] a use-after-free when deleting an expired fdb. It is due to a race condition between learning still happening and a port being deleted, after all its fdbs have been flushed. The port's state has been toggled to disabled so no learning should happen at that time, but if we have MST enabled, it will bypass the port's state, that together with VLAN filtering disabled can lead to fdb learning at a time when it shouldn't happen while the port is being deleted. VLAN filtering must be disabled because we flush the port VLANs when it's being deleted which will stop learning. This fix adds a check for the port's vlan group which is initialized to NULL when the port is getting deleted, that avoids the port state bypass. When MST is enabled there would be a minimal new overhead in the fast-path because the port's vlan group pointer is cache-hot. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dd280197f0f7ab3917be Fixes: ec7328b59176 ("net: bridge: mst: Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) mode") Reported-by: syzbot+dd280197f0f7ab3917be@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/69088ffa.050a0220.29fc44.003d.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105111919.1499702-2-razor@blackwall.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: br_netfilter: skip conntrack input hook for promisc packets

2024-04-27T15:11:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 751de2012eafa4d46d8081056761fa0e9cc8a178 ] For historical reasons, when bridge device is in promisc mode, packets that are directed to the taps follow bridge input hook path. This patch adds a workaround to reset conntrack for these packets. Jianbo Liu reports warning splats in their test infrastructure where cloned packets reach the br_netfilter input hook to confirm the conntrack object. Scratch one bit from BR_INPUT_SKB_CB to annotate that this packet has reached the input hook because it is passed up to the bridge device to reach the taps. [ 57.571874] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:616 br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.572749] Modules linked in: xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat xt_addrtype xt_conntrack nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss oid_registry overlay rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_isc si ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5ctl mlx5_core [ 57.575158] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.8.0+ #19 [ 57.575700] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 57.576662] RIP: 0010:br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.577195] Code: fe ff ff 41 bd 04 00 00 00 be 04 00 00 00 e9 4a ff ff ff be 04 00 00 00 48 89 ef e8 f3 a9 3c e1 66 83 ad b4 00 00 00 04 eb 91 <0f> 0b e9 f1 fe ff ff 0f 0b e9 df fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 b3 53 47 e1 [ 57.578722] RSP: 0018:ffff88885f845a08 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 57.579207] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff88812dfe8000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 57.579830] RDX: ffff88885f845a60 RSI: ffff8881022dc300 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 57.580454] RBP: ffff88885f845a60 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000003 [ 57.581076] R10: 00000000ffff1300 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 57.581695] R13: ffff8881047ffe00 R14: ffff888108dbee00 R15: ffff88814519b800 [ 57.582313] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88885f840000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 57.583040] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 57.583564] CR2: 000000c4206aa000 CR3: 0000000103847001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 [ 57.584194] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 57.584820] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 57.585440] Call Trace: [ 57.585721] [ 57.585976] ? __warn+0x7d/0x130 [ 57.586323] ? br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.586811] ? report_bug+0xf1/0x1c0 [ 57.587177] ? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70 [ 57.587539] ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60 [ 57.587929] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ 57.588336] ? br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.588825] nf_hook_slow+0x3d/0xd0 [ 57.589188] ? br_handle_vlan+0x4b/0x110 [ 57.589579] br_pass_frame_up+0xfc/0x150 [ 57.589970] ? br_port_flags_change+0x40/0x40 [ 57.590396] br_handle_frame_finish+0x346/0x5e0 [ 57.590837] ? ipt_do_table+0x32e/0x430 [ 57.591221] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.591656] br_nf_hook_thresh+0x4b/0xf0 [br_netfilter] [ 57.592286] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.592802] br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x178/0x480 [br_netfilter] [ 57.593348] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.593782] ? nf_nat_ipv4_pre_routing+0x25/0x60 [nf_nat] [ 57.594279] br_nf_pre_routing+0x24c/0x550 [br_netfilter] [ 57.594780] ? br_nf_hook_thresh+0xf0/0xf0 [br_netfilter] [ 57.595280] br_handle_frame+0x1f3/0x3d0 [ 57.595676] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.596118] ? br_handle_frame_finish+0x5e0/0x5e0 [ 57.596566] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x25b/0xfc0 [ 57.597017] ? __napi_build_skb+0x37/0x40 [ 57.597418] __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0xfb/0x220 Fixes: 62e7151ae3eb ("netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack") Reported-by: Jianbo Liu Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: bridge: use DEV_STATS_INC()

2023-09-19T11:35:15+00:00

syzbot/KCSAN reported data-races in br_handle_frame_finish() [1] This function can run from multiple cpus without mutual exclusion. Adopt SMP safe DEV_STATS_INC() to update dev->stats fields. Handles updates to dev->stats.tx_dropped while we are at it. [1] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in br_handle_frame_finish / br_handle_frame_finish read-write to 0xffff8881374b2178 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1: br_handle_frame_finish+0xd4f/0xef0 net/bridge/br_input.c:189 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x1ed/0x220 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x50f/0x540 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:304 [inline] br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x1e3/0x2a0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:178 br_nf_pre_routing+0x526/0xba0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:508 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:144 [inline] nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:272 [inline] br_handle_frame+0x4c9/0x940 net/bridge/br_input.c:417 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xa8a/0x21e0 net/core/dev.c:5417 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5521 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:5637 process_backlog+0x21f/0x380 net/core/dev.c:5965 __napi_poll+0x60/0x3b0 net/core/dev.c:6527 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6594 [inline] net_rx_action+0x32b/0x750 net/core/dev.c:6727 __do_softirq+0xc1/0x265 kernel/softirq.c:553 run_ksoftirqd+0x17/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:921 smpboot_thread_fn+0x30a/0x4a0 kernel/smpboot.c:164 kthread+0x1d7/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304 read-write to 0xffff8881374b2178 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0: br_handle_frame_finish+0xd4f/0xef0 net/bridge/br_input.c:189 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x1ed/0x220 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x50f/0x540 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:304 [inline] br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x1e3/0x2a0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:178 br_nf_pre_routing+0x526/0xba0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:508 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:144 [inline] nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:272 [inline] br_handle_frame+0x4c9/0x940 net/bridge/br_input.c:417 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xa8a/0x21e0 net/core/dev.c:5417 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5521 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:5637 process_backlog+0x21f/0x380 net/core/dev.c:5965 __napi_poll+0x60/0x3b0 net/core/dev.c:6527 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6594 [inline] net_rx_action+0x32b/0x750 net/core/dev.c:6727 __do_softirq+0xc1/0x265 kernel/softirq.c:553 do_softirq+0x5e/0x90 kernel/softirq.c:454 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x64/0x70 kernel/softirq.c:381 __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:167 [inline] _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x36/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline] batadv_tt_local_purge+0x1a8/0x1f0 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:1356 batadv_tt_purge+0x2b/0x630 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:3560 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2630 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x5b8/0xa30 kernel/workqueue.c:2703 worker_thread+0x525/0x730 kernel/workqueue.c:2784 kthread+0x1d7/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304 value changed: 0x00000000000d7190 -> 0x00000000000d7191 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 PID: 14848 Comm: kworker/u4:11 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc1-syzkaller-00236-gad8a69f361b9 #0 Fixes: 1c29fc4989bc ("[BRIDGE]: keep track of received multicast packets") Reported-by: syzbot Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Roopa Prabhu Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230918091351.1356153-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

skbuff: bridge: Add layer 2 miss indication

2023-05-31T06:37:00+00:00

For EVPN non-DF (Designated Forwarder) filtering we need to be able to prevent decapsulated traffic from being flooded to a multi-homed host. Filtering of multicast and broadcast traffic can be achieved using the following flower filter: # tc filter add dev bond0 egress pref 1 proto all flower indev vxlan0 dst_mac 01:00:00:00:00:00/01:00:00:00:00:00 action drop Unlike broadcast and multicast traffic, it is not currently possible to filter unknown unicast traffic. The classification into unknown unicast is performed by the bridge driver, but is not visible to other layers such as tc. Solve this by adding a new 'l2_miss' bit to the tc skb extension. Clear the bit whenever a packet enters the bridge (received from a bridge port or transmitted via the bridge) and set it if the packet did not match an FDB or MDB entry. If there is no skb extension and the bit needs to be cleared, then do not allocate one as no extension is equivalent to the bit being cleared. The bit is not set for broadcast packets as they never perform a lookup and therefore never incur a miss. A bit that is set for every flooded packet would also work for the current use case, but it does not allow us to differentiate between registered and unregistered multicast traffic, which might be useful in the future. To keep the performance impact to a minimum, the marking of packets is guarded by the 'tc_skb_ext_tc' static key. When 'false', the skb is not touched and an skb extension is not allocated. Instead, only a 5 bytes nop is executed, as demonstrated below for the call site in br_handle_frame(). Before the patch: ``` memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(struct br_input_skb_cb)); c37b09: 49 c7 44 24 28 00 00 movq $0x0,0x28(%r12) c37b10: 00 00 p = br_port_get_rcu(skb->dev); c37b12: 49 8b 44 24 10 mov 0x10(%r12),%rax memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(struct br_input_skb_cb)); c37b17: 49 c7 44 24 30 00 00 movq $0x0,0x30(%r12) c37b1e: 00 00 c37b20: 49 c7 44 24 38 00 00 movq $0x0,0x38(%r12) c37b27: 00 00 ``` After the patch (when static key is disabled): ``` memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(struct br_input_skb_cb)); c37c29: 49 c7 44 24 28 00 00 movq $0x0,0x28(%r12) c37c30: 00 00 c37c32: 49 8d 44 24 28 lea 0x28(%r12),%rax c37c37: 48 c7 40 08 00 00 00 movq $0x0,0x8(%rax) c37c3e: 00 c37c3f: 48 c7 40 10 00 00 00 movq $0x0,0x10(%rax) c37c46: 00 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct static_key *key, bool branch) { asm_volatile_goto("1:" c37c47: 0f 1f 44 00 00 nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1) br_tc_skb_miss_set(skb, false); p = br_port_get_rcu(skb->dev); c37c4c: 49 8b 44 24 10 mov 0x10(%r12),%rax ``` Subsequent patches will extend the flower classifier to be able to match on the new 'l2_miss' bit and enable / disable the static key when filters that match on it are added / deleted. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bridge: Pass VLAN ID to br_flood()

2023-04-21T07:25:49+00:00

Subsequent patches are going to add per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression, which will require br_flood() to potentially suppress ARP / NS packets on a per-{Port, VLAN} basis. As a preparation, pass the VLAN ID of the packet as another argument to br_flood(). Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bridge: Add missing parentheses

2022-11-12T05:34:55+00:00

No changes in generated code. Reported-by: Petr Machata Reviewed-by: Petr Machata Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110085422.521059-1-idosch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bridge: Add MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support

2022-11-04T03:46:32+00:00

Hosts that support 802.1X authentication are able to authenticate themselves by exchanging EAPOL frames with an authenticator (Ethernet bridge, in this case) and an authentication server. Access to the network is only granted by the authenticator to successfully authenticated hosts. The above is implemented in the bridge using the "locked" bridge port option. When enabled, link-local frames (e.g., EAPOL) can be locally received by the bridge, but all other frames are dropped unless the host is authenticated. That is, unless the user space control plane installed an FDB entry according to which the source address of the frame is located behind the locked ingress port. The entry can be dynamic, in which case learning needs to be enabled so that the entry will be refreshed by incoming traffic. There are deployments in which not all the devices connected to the authenticator (the bridge) support 802.1X. Such devices can include printers and cameras. One option to support such deployments is to unlock the bridge ports connecting these devices, but a slightly more secure option is to use MAB. When MAB is enabled, the MAC address of the connected device is used as the user name and password for the authentication. For MAB to work, the user space control plane needs to be notified about MAC addresses that are trying to gain access so that they will be compared against an allow list. This can be implemented via the regular learning process with the sole difference that learned FDB entries are installed with a new "locked" flag indicating that the entry cannot be used to authenticate the device. The flag cannot be set by user space, but user space can clear the flag by replacing the entry, thereby authenticating the device. Locked FDB entries implement the following semantics with regards to roaming, aging and forwarding: 1. Roaming: Locked FDB entries can roam to unlocked (authorized) ports, in which case the "locked" flag is cleared. FDB entries cannot roam to locked ports regardless of MAB being enabled or not. Therefore, locked FDB entries are only created if an FDB entry with the given {MAC, VID} does not already exist. This behavior prevents unauthenticated devices from disrupting traffic destined to already authenticated devices. 2. Aging: Locked FDB entries age and refresh by incoming traffic like regular entries. 3. Forwarding: Locked FDB entries forward traffic like regular entries. If user space detects an unauthorized MAC behind a locked port and wishes to prevent traffic with this MAC DA from reaching the host, it can do so using tc or a different mechanism. Enable the above behavior using a new bridge port option called "mab". It can only be enabled on a bridge port that is both locked and has learning enabled. Locked FDB entries are flushed from the port once MAB is disabled. A new option is added because there are pure 802.1X deployments that are not interested in notifications about locked FDB entries. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Schultz Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski