kernel/linux.git/net/ipv4/route.c, branch v6.19.12

dst: fix races in rt6_uncached_list_del() and rt_del_uncached_list()

2026-01-14T03:08:18+00:00

syzbot was able to crash the kernel in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev() in an interesting way [1] Crash happens in list_del_init()/INIT_LIST_HEAD() while writing list->prev, while the prior write on list->next went well. static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list) { WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list); // This went well WRITE_ONCE(list->prev, list); // Crash, @list has been freed. } Issue here is that rt6_uncached_list_del() did not attempt to lock ul->lock, as list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached) returned true because the WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list) happened on the other CPU. We might use list_del_init_careful() and list_empty_careful(), or make sure rt6_uncached_list_del() always grabs the spinlock whenever rt->dst.rt_uncached_list has been set. A similar fix is neeed for IPv4. [1] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020 Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880294cfa78 by task kworker/u8:14/3450 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3450 Comm: kworker/u8:14 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595 INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline] list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline] rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline] rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020 addrconf_ifdown+0x143/0x18a0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3853 addrconf_notify+0x1bc/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1 notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline] netif_close_many+0x29c/0x410 net/core/dev.c:1785 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0xb50/0x2330 net/core/dev.c:12353 ops_exit_rtnl_list net/core/net_namespace.c:187 [inline] ops_undo_list+0x3dc/0x990 net/core/net_namespace.c:248 cleanup_net+0x4de/0x7b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:696 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 Allocated by task 803: kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline] kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline] __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270 dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89 ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline] icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333 mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline] mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 Freed by task 20: kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline] kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline] __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline] slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline] slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline] kmem_cache_free+0x18f/0x8d0 mm/slub.c:6781 dst_destroy+0x235/0x350 net/core/dst.c:121 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline] rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857 [inline] rcu_cpu_kthread+0xba5/0x1af0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2945 smpboot_thread_fn+0x542/0xa60 kernel/smpboot.c:160 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 Last potentially related work creation: kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3119 [inline] call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3239 refdst_drop include/net/dst.h:266 [inline] skb_dst_drop include/net/dst.h:278 [inline] skb_release_head_state+0x71/0x360 net/core/skbuff.c:1156 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1180 [inline] __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1196 [inline] sk_skb_reason_drop+0xe9/0x170 net/core/skbuff.c:1234 kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline] tcf_kfree_skb_list include/net/sch_generic.h:1127 [inline] __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4260 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x26aa/0x3210 net/core/dev.c:4785 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline] ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247 NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318 mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline] mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880294cfa00 which belongs to the cache ip6_dst_cache of size 232 The buggy address is located 120 bytes inside of freed 232-byte region [ffff8880294cfa00, ffff8880294cfae8) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x294cf memcg:ffff88803536b781 flags: 0x80000000000000(node=0|zone=1) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0080000000000000 ffff88802ff1c8c0 ffffea0000bf2bc0 dead000000000006 raw: 0000000000000000 00000000800c000c 00000000f5000000 ffff88803536b781 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected page_owner tracks the page as allocated page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 9, tgid 9 (kworker/0:0), ts 91119585830, free_ts 91088628818 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline] post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline] get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3915 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210 alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2486 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline] allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248 new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline] ___slab_alloc+0xb10/0x13e0 mm/slub.c:4656 __slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4779 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x101/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270 dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89 ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline] icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333 mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline] mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 page last free pid 5859 tgid 5859 stack trace: reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline] free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline] __free_frozen_pages+0xfe1/0x1170 mm/page_alloc.c:2943 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline] __put_partials+0x149/0x170 mm/slub.c:3886 __slab_free+0x2af/0x330 mm/slub.c:5952 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline] qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270 getname_flags+0xb8/0x540 fs/namei.c:146 getname include/linux/fs.h:2498 [inline] do_sys_openat2+0xbc/0x200 fs/open.c:1426 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline] __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline] __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline] __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1447 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 Fixes: 8d0b94afdca8 ("ipv6: Keep track of DST_NOCACHE routes in case of iface down/unregister") Fixes: 78df76a065ae ("ipv4: take rt_uncached_lock only if needed") Reported-by: syzbot+179fc225724092b8b2b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6964cdf2.050a0220.eaf7.009d.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112103825.3810713-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv4: route: Prevent rt_bind_exception() from rebinding stale fnhe

2025-11-12T14:46:36+00:00

The sit driver's packet transmission path calls: sit_tunnel_xmit() -> update_or_create_fnhe(), which lead to fnhe_remove_oldest() being called to delete entries exceeding FNHE_RECLAIM_DEPTH+random. The race window is between fnhe_remove_oldest() selecting fnheX for deletion and the subsequent kfree_rcu(). During this time, the concurrent path's __mkroute_output() -> find_exception() can fetch the soon-to-be-deleted fnheX, and rt_bind_exception() then binds it with a new dst using a dst_hold(). When the original fnheX is freed via RCU, the dst reference remains permanently leaked. CPU 0 CPU 1 __mkroute_output() find_exception() [fnheX] update_or_create_fnhe() fnhe_remove_oldest() [fnheX] rt_bind_exception() [bind dst] RCU callback [fnheX freed, dst leak] This issue manifests as a device reference count leak and a warning in dmesg when unregistering the net device: unregister_netdevice: waiting for sitX to become free. Usage count = N Ido Schimmel provided the simple test validation method [1]. The fix clears 'oldest->fnhe_daddr' before calling fnhe_flush_routes(). Since rt_bind_exception() checks this field, setting it to zero prevents the stale fnhe from being reused and bound to a new dst just before it is freed. [1] ip netns add ns1 ip -n ns1 link set dev lo up ip -n ns1 address add 192.0.2.1/32 dev lo ip -n ns1 link add name dummy1 up type dummy ip -n ns1 route add 192.0.2.2/32 dev dummy1 ip -n ns1 link add name gretap1 up arp off type gretap \ local 192.0.2.1 remote 192.0.2.2 ip -n ns1 route add 198.51.0.0/16 dev gretap1 taskset -c 0 ip netns exec ns1 mausezahn gretap1 \ -A 198.51.100.1 -B 198.51.0.0/16 -t udp -p 1000 -c 0 -q & taskset -c 2 ip netns exec ns1 mausezahn gretap1 \ -A 198.51.100.1 -B 198.51.0.0/16 -t udp -p 1000 -c 0 -q & sleep 10 ip netns pids ns1 | xargs kill ip netns del ns1 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 67d6d681e15b ("ipv4: make exception cache less predictible") Signed-off-by: Chuang Wang Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111064328.24440-1-nashuiliang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv4: icmp: Pass IPv4 control block structure as an argument to __icmp_send()

2025-09-11T10:22:38+00:00

__icmp_send() is used to generate ICMP error messages in response to various situations such as MTU errors (i.e., "Fragmentation Required") and too many hops (i.e., "Time Exceeded"). The skb that generated the error does not necessarily come from the IPv4 layer and does not always have a valid IPv4 control block in skb->cb. Therefore, commit 9ef6b42ad6fd ("net: Add __icmp_send helper.") changed the function to take the IP options structure as argument instead of deriving it from the skb's control block. Some callers of this function such as icmp_send() pass the IP options structure from the skb's control block as in these call paths the control block is known to be valid, but other callers simply pass a zeroed structure. A subsequent patch will need __icmp_send() to access more information from the IPv4 control block (specifically, the ifindex of the input interface). As a preparation for this change, change the function to take the IPv4 control block structure as an argument instead of the IP options structure. This makes the function similar to its IPv6 counterpart that already takes the IPv6 control block structure as an argument. No functional changes intended. Reviewed-by: Petr Machata Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250908073238.119240-3-idosch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

ipv4: start using dst_dev_rcu()

2025-08-30T02:36:32+00:00

Change icmpv4_xrlim_allow(), ip_defrag() to prevent possible UAF. Change ipmr_prepare_xmit(), ipmr_queue_fwd_xmit(), ip_mr_output(), ipv4_neigh_lookup() to use lockdep enabled dst_dev_rcu(). Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250828195823.3958522-9-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dst: introduce dst->dev_rcu

2025-08-30T02:36:31+00:00

Followup of commit 88fe14253e18 ("net: dst: add four helpers to annotate data-races around dst->dev"). We want to gradually add explicit RCU protection to dst->dev, including lockdep support. Add an union to alias dst->dev_rcu and dst->dev. Add dst_dev_net_rcu() helper. Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250828195823.3958522-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-08-29T18:48:01+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc4). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c 02614eee26fb ("idpf: do not linearize big TSO packets") 6c4e68480238 ("idpf: remove obsolete stashing code") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ipv4: fix regression in local-broadcast routes

2025-08-28T08:52:30+00:00

Commit 9e30ecf23b1b ("net: ipv4: fix incorrect MTU in broadcast routes") introduced a regression where local-broadcast packets would have their gateway set in __mkroute_output, which was caused by fi = NULL being removed. Fix this by resetting the fib_info for local-broadcast packets. This preserves the intended changes for directed-broadcast packets. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 9e30ecf23b1b ("net: ipv4: fix incorrect MTU in broadcast routes") Reported-by: Brett A C Sheffield Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/20250822165231.4353-4-bacs@librecast.net Signed-off-by: Oscar Maes Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250827062322.4807-1-oscmaes92@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

ipv4: Convert ->flowi4_tos to dscp_t.

2025-08-27T00:34:31+00:00

Convert the ->flowic_tos field of struct flowi_common from __u8 to dscp_t, rename it ->flowic_dscp and propagate these changes to struct flowi and struct flowi4. We've had several bugs in the past where ECN bits could interfere with IPv4 routing, because these bits were not properly cleared when setting ->flowi4_tos. These bugs should be fixed now and the dscp_t type has been introduced to ensure that variables carrying DSCP values don't accidentally have any ECN bits set. Several variables and structure fields have been converted to dscp_t already, but the main IPv4 routing structure, struct flowi4, is still using a __u8. To avoid any future regression, this patch converts it to dscp_t. There are many users to convert at once. Fortunately, around half of ->flowi4_tos users already have a dscp_t value at hand, which they currently convert to __u8 using inet_dscp_to_dsfield(). For all of these users, we just need to drop that conversion. But, although we try to do the __u8 <-> dscp_t conversions at the boundaries of the network or of user space, some places still store TOS/DSCP variables as __u8 in core networking code. Those can hardly be converted either because the data structure is part of UAPI or because the same variable or field is also used for handling ECN in other parts of the code. In all of these cases where we don't have a dscp_t variable at hand, we need to use inet_dsfield_to_dscp() when interacting with ->flowi4_dscp. Changes since v1: * Fix space alignment in __bpf_redirect_neigh_v4() (Ido). Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/29acecb45e911d17446b9a3dbdb1ab7b821ea371.1756128932.git.gnault@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ipv4: allow directed broadcast routes to use dst hint

2025-08-25T23:07:16+00:00

Currently, ip_extract_route_hint uses RTN_BROADCAST to decide whether to use the route dst hint mechanism. This check is too strict, as it prevents directed broadcast routes from using the hint, resulting in poor performance during bursts of directed broadcast traffic. Fix this in ip_extract_route_hint and modify ip_route_use_hint to preserve the intended behaviour. Signed-off-by: Oscar Maes Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250819174642.5148-2-oscmaes92@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ipv4: fix incorrect MTU in broadcast routes

2025-07-15T00:29:41+00:00

Currently, __mkroute_output overrules the MTU value configured for broadcast routes. This buggy behaviour can be reproduced with: ip link set dev eth1 mtu 9000 ip route del broadcast 192.168.0.255 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 ip route add broadcast 192.168.0.255 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 mtu 1500 The maximum packet size should be 1500, but it is actually 8000: ping -b 192.168.0.255 -s 8000 Fix __mkroute_output to allow MTU values to be configured for for broadcast routes (to support a mixed-MTU local-area-network). Signed-off-by: Oscar Maes Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250710142714.12986-1-oscmaes92@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski