kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6/addrconf.c, branch linux-7.1.y

ipv6: Fix a potential NPD in cleanup_prefix_route()

2026-06-11T09:57:11+00:00

addrconf_get_prefix_route() can return the fib6_null_entry sentinel entry which has a NULL fib6_table pointer. Therefore, before setting the route's expiration time, check that we are not working with this entry, as otherwise a NPD will be triggered [1]. Note that the other callers of addrconf_get_prefix_route() are not susceptible to this bug: 1. addrconf_prefix_rcv(): Requests a route with the 'RTF_ADDRCONF | RTF_PREFIX_RT' flags which are not set on fib6_null_entry. 2. modify_prefix_route(): Fixed by commit a747e02430df ("ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in modify_prefix_route()"). 3. __ipv6_ifa_notify(): Calls ip6_del_rt() which specifically checks for fib6_null_entry and returns an error. [1] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037] [...] Call Trace: __kasan_check_byte (mm/kasan/common.c:573) lock_acquire.part.0 (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842 (discriminator 1)) _raw_spin_lock_bh (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:182 (discriminator 1)) cleanup_prefix_route (net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1280) ipv6_del_addr (net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1342) inet6_addr_del.isra.0 (net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3119) inet6_rtm_deladdr (net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4812) rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6997) netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2555) netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344) netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1899) __sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:802 (discriminator 4)) ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2698) ___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2752) __sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2784) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121) Fixes: 5eb902b8e719 ("net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.") Reported-by: Ji'an Zhou Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609145448.768318-1-idosch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Revert "ipv6: preserve insertion order for same-scope addresses"

2026-05-29T20:00:54+00:00

Chris Adams reported that preserving insertion order for same-scope addresses is causing SSH connections to be dropped after stopping a VM while running NetworkManager. NetworkManager caches the IPv6 address configuration, when a RA arrives, it determines the list of addresses to configure and checks if the addresses are already in the right order in the kernel. If they aren't, NetworkManager removes and re-adds them to achieve the desired order. As the order changes, NetworkManager is confused and reconfigures the addresses on every update. In addition, this would also affect to cloud tooling that relies on IPv6 addresses order to identify primary and secondaries addresses. This reverts commit cb3de96eea66f5e4a580086c6a1be46e765f97f4. Fixes: cb3de96eea66 ("ipv6: preserve insertion order for same-scope addresses") Reported-by: Chris Adams Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260521135310.GC977@cmadams.net/ Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529112357.5079-1-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid output arguments for returning drop reason where possible - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s, thus making the table allocation size a power of two - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid buffer size drifting up - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection. This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023) - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now unnecessary function calling indirection Cross-tree stuff: - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it Netfilter: - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU. Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable Wireless: - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth - Radar detection improvements - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client probing - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware Driver API: - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink instances which span multiple PFs - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement in mlx5 and fbnic) - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement in mana) - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x) - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5) Misc: - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter Drivers - Software: - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared source MAC address - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control" - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload coalescing) - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB pages) - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt): - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost - Broadcom 800GE (bnge): - add link status and configuration handling - add various HW and SW statistics - Marvell/Cavium: - NPC HW block support for cn20k - Huawei (hinic3): - add mailbox / control queue - add rx VLAN offload - add driver info and link management - Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards - Realtek PCI (r8169): - add support for RTL8125cp - Realtek USB (r8152): - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling - shrink driver memory use for internal structures - improve Tx IRQ coalescing - improve TCP segmentation handling - add support for Spacemit K3 - Cadence (macb): - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM - support IEEE 802.3az EEE - rework usrio capabilities and handling - AMD (xgbe): - improve power management for S0i3 - improve TX resilience for link-down handling - Virtual: - Google cloud vNIC: - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode - improve HW-GRO handling - support UDP GSO for DQO format - PCIe NTB: - support queue count configuration - Ethernet PHYs: - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge - Broadcom: - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support - Micrel: - support for LAN9645X internal PHY - Realtek: - add RTL8224 pair order support - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC) - Maxlinear: - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear (mxl862xx): - support for bridge offloading - support for VLANs - support driver statistics - Bluetooth: - large number of fixes and new device IDs - Mediatek: - support MT6639 (MT7927) - support MT7902 SDIO - WiFi: - Intel (iwlwifi): - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - monitor mode support on IPQ5332 - basic hwmon temperature reporting - support IPQ5424 - Realtek: - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs - Cellular: - IPA v5.2 support" * tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits) net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id() wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init() net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete() selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks ...

ipv6: move IFA_F_PERMANENT percpu allocation in process scope

2026-04-10T02:32:45+00:00

Observed at boot time: CPU: 43 UID: 0 PID: 3595 Comm: (t-daemon) Not tainted 6.12.0 #1 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x4e/0x70 pcpu_alloc_noprof.cold+0x1f/0x4b fib_nh_common_init+0x4c/0x110 fib6_nh_init+0x387/0x740 ip6_route_info_create+0x46d/0x640 addrconf_f6i_alloc+0x13b/0x180 addrconf_permanent_addr+0xd0/0x220 addrconf_notify+0x93/0x540 notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0 __dev_notify_flags+0x5c/0xf0 dev_change_flags+0x54/0x70 do_setlink+0x36c/0xce0 rtnl_setlink+0x11f/0x1d0 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x142/0x3f0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100 netlink_unicast+0x242/0x390 netlink_sendmsg+0x21b/0x470 __sys_sendto+0x1dc/0x1f0 __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x7d/0x160 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7f5c3852f127 Code: 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d 85 ef 0c 00 00 41 89 ca 74 10 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 71 c3 55 48 83 ec 30 44 89 4c 24 2c 4c 89 44 RSP: 002b:00007ffe86caf4c8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000556c5cd93210 RCX: 00007f5c3852f127 RDX: 0000000000000020 RSI: 0000556c5cd938b0 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffe86caf5a0 R08: 00007ffe86caf4e0 R09: 0000000000000080 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000556c5cd932d0 R13: 00000000021d05d1 R14: 00000000021d05d1 R15: 0000000000000001 IFA_F_PERMANENT addresses require the allocation of a bunch of percpu pointers, currently in atomic scope. Similar to commit 51454ea42c1a ("ipv6: fix locking issues with loops over idev->addr_list"), move fixup_permanent_addr() outside the &idev->lock scope, and do the allocations with GFP_KERNEL. With such change fixup_permanent_addr() is invoked with the BH enabled, and the ifp lock acquired there needs the BH variant. Note that we don't need to acquire a reference to the permanent addresses before releasing the mentioned write lock, because addrconf_permanent_addr() runs under RTNL and ifa removal always happens under RTNL, too. Also the PERMANENT flag is constant in the relevant scope, as it can be cleared only by inet6_addr_modify() under the RTNL lock. Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Link: https://patch.msgid.link/46a7a030727e236af2dc7752994cd4f04f4a91d2.1775658924.git.pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 7.0-rc6+

2026-04-03T15:14:13+00:00

Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Minor conflict in kernel/bpf/verifier.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

ipv6: prevent possible UaF in addrconf_permanent_addr()

2026-03-31T00:25:10+00:00

The mentioned helper try to warn the user about an exceptional condition, but the message is delivered too late, accessing the ipv6 after its possible deletion. Reorder the statement to avoid the possible UaF; while at it, place the warning outside the idev->lock as it needs no protection. Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/8c8bfe2e1a324e501f0e15fef404a77443fd8caf.1774365668.git.pabeni%40redhat.com Fixes: f1705ec197e7 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ef973c3a8cb4f8f1787ed469f3e5391b9fe95aa0.1774601542.git.pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bpf: Remove inclusions of crypto/sha1.h

2026-03-24T15:40:45+00:00

Since commit 603b44162325 ("bpf: Update the bpf_prog_calc_tag to use SHA256") made BPF program tags use SHA-256 instead of SHA-1, the header no longer needs to be included. Remove the relevant inclusions so that they no longer unnecessarily come up in searches for which kernel code is still using the obsolete SHA-1 algorithm. Since net/ipv6/addrconf.c was relying on the transitive inclusion of (for an unrelated purpose) via , make it include explicitly in order to keep that file building. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Acked-by: Paul Chaignon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260314214555.112386-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

ipv6: Don't remove permanent routes with exceptions from tb6_gc_hlist.

2026-03-23T23:59:31+00:00

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->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 Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260320072317.2561779-3-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses

2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00

Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script: // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments virtual patch @gfp depends on patch && !(file in "tools") && !(file in "samples")@ identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex, kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex, kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex, kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex}; @@ ALLOC(... - , GFP_KERNEL ) $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang: Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01 Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds