kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6/addrconf.c, branch v6.19.11

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

2026-04-02T11:25:27+00:00

[ 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->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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipv6: Fix use-after-free in inet6_addr_del().

2026-01-14T03:09:11+00:00

syzbot reported use-after-free of inet6_ifaddr in inet6_addr_del(). [0] The cited commit accidentally moved ipv6_del_addr() for mngtmpaddr before reading its ifp->flags for temporary addresses in inet6_addr_del(). Let's move ipv6_del_addr() down to fix the UAF. [0]: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in inet6_addr_del.constprop.0+0x67a/0x6b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3117 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88807b89c86c by task syz.3.1618/9593 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9593 Comm: syz.3.1618 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595 inet6_addr_del.constprop.0+0x67a/0x6b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3117 addrconf_del_ifaddr+0x11e/0x190 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3181 inet6_ioctl+0x1e5/0x2b0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:582 sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1254 sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1375 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f164cf8f749 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f164de64038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f164d1e5fa0 RCX: 00007f164cf8f749 RDX: 0000200000000000 RSI: 0000000000008936 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007f164d013f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007f164d1e6038 R14: 00007f164d1e5fa0 R15: 00007ffde15c8288 Allocated by task 9593: kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:397 [inline] __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:414 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline] kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline] ipv6_add_addr+0x4e3/0x2010 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1120 inet6_addr_add+0x256/0x9b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3050 addrconf_add_ifaddr+0x1fc/0x450 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3160 inet6_ioctl+0x103/0x2b0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:580 sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1254 sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1375 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Freed by task 6099: kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:584 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline] __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline] slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline] slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:2569 [inline] slab_free_bulk mm/slub.c:6696 [inline] kmem_cache_free_bulk mm/slub.c:7383 [inline] kmem_cache_free_bulk+0x2bf/0x680 mm/slub.c:7362 kfree_bulk include/linux/slab.h:830 [inline] kvfree_rcu_bulk+0x1b7/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:1523 kvfree_rcu_drain_ready mm/slab_common.c:1728 [inline] kfree_rcu_monitor+0x1d0/0x2f0 mm/slab_common.c:1801 process_one_work+0x9ba/0x1b20 kernel/workqueue.c:3257 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline] worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x983/0xb10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 Fixes: 00b5b7aab9e42 ("net/ipv6: delete temporary address if mngtmpaddr is removed or unmanaged") Reported-by: syzbot+72e610f4f1a930ca9d8a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/696598e9.050a0220.3be5c5.0009.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113010538.2019411-1-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: clean up routes when manually removing address with a lifetime

2025-11-15T01:44:47+00:00

When an IPv6 address with a finite lifetime (configured with valid_lft and preferred_lft) is manually deleted, the kernel does not clean up the associated prefix route. This results in orphaned routes (marked "proto kernel") remaining in the routing table even after their corresponding address has been deleted. This is particularly problematic on networks using combination of SLAAC and bridges. 1. Machine comes up and performs RA on eth0. 2. User creates a bridge - does an ip -6 addr flush dev eth0; - adds the eth0 under the bridge. 3. SLAAC happens on br0. Even tho the address has "moved" to br0 there will still be a route pointing to eth0, but eth0 is not usable for IP any more. Reviewed-by: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113031700.3736285-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: Add sanity checks on ipv6_devconf.rpl_seg_enabled

2025-09-03T00:01:14+00:00

In ipv6_rpl_srh_rcv() we use min(net->ipv6.devconf_all->rpl_seg_enabled, idev->cnf.rpl_seg_enabled) is intended to return 0 when either value is zero, but if one of the values is negative it will in fact return non-zero. Signed-off-by: Yue Haibing Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250901123726.1972881-3-yuehaibing@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-07-30T15:58:55+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing - Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container) - Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX - Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK - Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP - Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface - Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB - Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap, improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users - Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque - Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly once - Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code - Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization - Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets - Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing - MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling - Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink - Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed - Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries - Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM - Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code refactoring. Add a number of selftests - Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol should be used for an inbound SA lookup - Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS - Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries. Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links - Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch - Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack - Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer - Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT Driver API: - Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink - Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing fields - Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE / Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc - Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs. Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL inputs - Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth management - Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration Device drivers: - Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge) - Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL - Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt): - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations - idpf: add flow steering - add link_down_events statistic - clean up the TSPLL code - preparations for live VM migration - nVidia/Mellanox: - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring) - optimize context memory usage for matchers - expose serial numbers in devlink info - support PCIe congestion metrics - Meta (fbnic): - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink - support dumping FW logs - Marvell/Cavium: - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips - Amazon: - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access) - Ethernet virtual: - VirtIO net: - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets - Google (gve): - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization - Microsoft vNIC: - add handler for device-originated servicing events - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation - support Tx bandwidth clamping - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - AMD: - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp): - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation - Broadcom switches (b53): - support BCM5325 switches - add bcm63xx EPHY power control - Synopsys (stmmac): - lots of code refactoring and cleanups - TI: - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree - icssg: PRP offload support - Microchip: - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support - Intel: - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and time-sensitive networking (taprio) - support packet pre-emption in both - RealTek (r8169): - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126 - Airoha: - add PPPoE offload support - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583 - Ethernet PHYs: - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs: - add MDI/MDI-X control support - add RX error counters - add cable test support - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type) - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x - support WoL for QCA807x - CAN drivers: - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info - WiFi: - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz) - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO) - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support - add Radio Measurement action fields - support per-radio RTS threshold - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is used by TKIP, not only WEP) - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling - WiFi drivers: - RealTek (rtw88): - IBSS mode for SDIO devices - RealTek (rtw89): - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7 - concurrent station + P2P support - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU - Intel (iwlwifi): - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix compatibility issues - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN) - some FIPS interoperability - MediaTek (mt76): - firmware recovery improvements - more MLO work - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k): - fix scan on multi-radio devices - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features - encapsulation/decapsulation offload - Broadcom (brcm80211): - support SDIO 43751 device - Bluetooth: - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS - Bluetooth drivers: - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading" * tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits) dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options ipv6: annotate data-races around rt->fib6_nsiblings ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev() ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify() vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname() igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support ...

Merge tag 'libcrypto-updates-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux

2025-07-29T00:58:52+00:00

Pull crypto library updates from Eric Biggers: "This is the main crypto library pull request for 6.17. The main focus this cycle is on reorganizing the SHA-1 and SHA-2 code, providing high-quality library APIs for SHA-1 and SHA-2 including HMAC support, and establishing conventions for lib/crypto/ going forward: - Migrate the SHA-1 and SHA-512 code (and also SHA-384 which shares most of the SHA-512 code) into lib/crypto/. This includes both the generic and architecture-optimized code. Greatly simplify how the architecture-optimized code is integrated. Add an easy-to-use library API for each SHA variant, including HMAC support. Finally, reimplement the crypto_shash support on top of the library API. - Apply the same reorganization to the SHA-256 code (and also SHA-224 which shares most of the SHA-256 code). This is a somewhat smaller change, due to my earlier work on SHA-256. But this brings in all the same additional improvements that I made for SHA-1 and SHA-512. There are also some smaller changes: - Move the architecture-optimized ChaCha, Poly1305, and BLAKE2s code from arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/crypto/ to lib/crypto/$(SRCARCH)/. For these algorithms it's just a move, not a full reorganization yet. - Fix the MIPS chacha-core.S to build with the clang assembler. - Fix the Poly1305 functions to work in all contexts. - Fix a performance regression in the x86_64 Poly1305 code. - Clean up the x86_64 SHA-NI optimized SHA-1 assembly code. Note that since the new organization of the SHA code is much simpler, the diffstat of this pull request is negative, despite the addition of new fully-documented library APIs for multiple SHA and HMAC-SHA variants. These APIs will allow further simplifications across the kernel as users start using them instead of the old-school crypto API. (I've already written a lot of such conversion patches, removing over 1000 more lines of code. But most of those will target 6.18 or later)" * tag 'libcrypto-updates-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux: (67 commits) lib/crypto: arm64/sha512-ce: Drop compatibility macros for older binutils lib/crypto: x86/sha1-ni: Convert to use rounds macros lib/crypto: x86/sha1-ni: Minor optimizations and cleanup crypto: sha1 - Remove sha1_base.h lib/crypto: x86/sha1: Migrate optimized code into library lib/crypto: sparc/sha1: Migrate optimized code into library lib/crypto: s390/sha1: Migrate optimized code into library lib/crypto: powerpc/sha1: Migrate optimized code into library lib/crypto: mips/sha1: Migrate optimized code into library lib/crypto: arm64/sha1: Migrate optimized code into library lib/crypto: arm/sha1: Migrate optimized code into library crypto: sha1 - Use same state format as legacy drivers crypto: sha1 - Wrap library and add HMAC support lib/crypto: sha1: Add HMAC support lib/crypto: sha1: Add SHA-1 library functions lib/crypto: sha1: Rename sha1_init() to sha1_init_raw() crypto: x86/sha1 - Rename conflicting symbol lib/crypto: sha2: Add hmac_sha*_init_usingrawkey() lib/crypto: arm/poly1305: Remove unneeded empty weak function lib/crypto: x86/poly1305: Fix performance regression on short messages ...

ipv6: add `force_forwarding` sysctl to enable per-interface forwarding

2025-07-25T20:06:19+00:00

It is currently impossible to enable ipv6 forwarding on a per-interface basis like in ipv4. To enable forwarding on an ipv6 interface we need to enable it on all interfaces and disable it on the other interfaces using a netfilter rule. This is especially cumbersome if you have lots of interfaces and only want to enable forwarding on a few. According to the sysctl docs [0] the `net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding` enables forwarding for all interfaces, while the interface-specific `net.ipv6.conf..forwarding` configures the interface Host/Router configuration. Introduce a new sysctl flag `force_forwarding`, which can be set on every interface. The ip6_forwarding function will then check if the global forwarding flag OR the force_forwarding flag is active and forward the packet. To preserve backwards-compatibility reset the flag (on all interfaces) to 0 if the net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding flag is set to 0. Add a short selftest that checks if a packet gets forwarded with and without `force_forwarding`. [0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: Gabriel Goller Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722081847.132632-1-g.goller@proxmox.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: s/dev_get_flags/netif_get_flags/

2025-07-19T00:27:47+00:00

Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality") introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-6-sdf@fomichev.me Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

lib/crypto: sha1: Rename sha1_init() to sha1_init_raw()

2025-07-14T15:22:31+00:00

Rename the existing sha1_init() to sha1_init_raw(), since it conflicts with the upcoming library function. This will later be removed, but this keeps the kernel building for the introduction of the library. Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250712232329.818226-3-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

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

2025-07-11T18:42:38+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.16-rc6-2). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c c701574c5412 ("wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix invalid array index in ssid assignment during hw scan") b3a431fe2e39 ("wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix off by one in mt7925_mcu_hw_scan()") drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mac.c 62da647a2b20 ("wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add MLO support to mt7996_tx_check_aggr()") dc66a129adf1 ("wifi: mt76: add a wrapper for wcid access with validation") drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/main.c 3dd6f67c669c ("wifi: mt76: Move RCU section in mt7996_mcu_add_rate_ctrl()") 8989d8e90f5f ("wifi: mt76: mt7996: Do not set wcid.sta to 1 in mt7996_mac_sta_event()") net/mac80211/cfg.c 58fcb1b4287c ("wifi: mac80211: reject VHT opmode for unsupported channel widths") 037dc18ac3fb ("wifi: mac80211: add support for storing station S1G capabilities") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski