kernel/linux.git/net/netlink, branch v5.10.259

net: netlink: don't set nsid on local notifications

2026-06-19T11:21:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 88b126b39f9757e9debc322d4679239e9af089c7 ] In most cases, notifications on sockets with NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID do not contain NSID in their ancillary data in case the event is local to the listener. However, when a self-referential NSID is allocated for a namespace, every local notification starts sending this ID to the user space. This is problematic, because the listener cannot tell if those notifications are local or not anymore without making extra requests to figure out if the provided NSID is local or not. The listener can also not figure out the local NSID beforehand as it can be allocated at any point in time by other processes, changing the structure of the future notifications for everyone. The value is practically not useful, since it's the namespace's own ID that the application has to obtain from other sources in order to figure out if it's the same or not. So, for the application it's just an extra busy work with no benefits. Moreover, applications that do not know about this quirk may be mishandling notifications with NSID set as notifications from remote namespaces. This is the case for ovs-vswitchd and the iproute2's 'ip monitor' that stops printing 'current' and starts printing the nsid number mid-session. Lack of clear documentation for this behavior is also not helping. A search though open-source projects doesn't reveal any projects that use NETNSA_NSID_NOT_ASSIGNED and rely on metadata to contain self-referential NSIDs (expected, since the value is not useful). Quite the opposite, as already mentioned, there are few applications that rely on NSID to not be present in local events. Since the value is not useful and actively harmful in some cases, let's not report it for local events, making the notifications more consistent. Also adding some blank lines for readability. Fixes: 59324cf35aba ("netlink: allow to listen "all" netns") Reported-by: Matteo Perin Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520172317.175168-3-i.maximets@ovn.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: netlink: fix sending unassigned nsid after assigned one

2026-06-19T11:21:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 70f8592ee90585272018a725054b6eb2ab7e99ca ] If the current skb is not shared, it is re-used directly for all the sockets subscribed to the notification. If we have remote all-nsid socket receiving a message first, then the 'nsid_is_set' will be set to 'true'. If the nsid is NOT_ASSIGNED for the next socket in the list, the 'nsid_is_set' will remain 'true' and the negative value is be delivered to the user space. All subsequent nsid values will be delivered as well, since there is no code path that sets the flag back to 'false'. Fix that by always dropping the flag to 'false' first. Fixes: 7212462fa6fd ("netlink: don't send unknown nsid") Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520172317.175168-2-i.maximets@ovn.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: Use nlmsg_unicast() instead of netlink_unicast()

2025-12-06T21:08:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 01757f536ac825e3614d583fee9acb48c64ed084 ] It has 'if (err >0 )' statement in nlmsg_unicast(), so use nlmsg_unicast() instead of netlink_unicast(), this looks more concise. v2: remove the change in netfilter. Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: f1fc201148c7 ("sctp: Hold sock lock while iterating over address list") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast()

2025-08-28T14:22:38+00:00

commit 759dfc7d04bab1b0b86113f1164dc1fec192b859 upstream. netlink_attachskb() checks for the socket's read memory allocation constraints. Firstly, it has: rmem < READ_ONCE(sk->sk_rcvbuf) to check if the just increased rmem value fits into the socket's receive buffer. If not, it proceeds and tries to wait for the memory under: rmem + skb->truesize > READ_ONCE(sk->sk_rcvbuf) The checks don't cover the case when skb->truesize + sk->sk_rmem_alloc is equal to sk->sk_rcvbuf. Thus the function neither successfully accepts these conditions, nor manages to reschedule the task - and is called in retry loop for indefinite time which is caught as: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU rcu: 0-....: (25999 ticks this GP) idle=ef2/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=262269/262269 fqs=6212 (t=26000 jiffies g=230833 q=259957) NMI backtrace for cpu 0 CPU: 0 PID: 22 Comm: kauditd Not tainted 5.10.240 #68 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc42 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:120 nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold lib/nmi_backtrace.c:105 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:335 rcu_sched_clock_irq.cold kernel/rcu/tree.c:2590 update_process_times kernel/time/timer.c:1953 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:227 tick_sched_timer kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1399 __hrtimer_run_queues kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1652 hrtimer_interrupt kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1717 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1113 asm_call_irq_on_stack arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:808 netlink_attachskb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1234 netlink_unicast net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1349 kauditd_send_queue kernel/audit.c:776 kauditd_thread kernel/audit.c:897 kthread kernel/kthread.c:328 ret_from_fork arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304 Restore the original behavior of the check which commit in Fixes accidentally missed when restructuring the code. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org). Fixes: ae8f160e7eb2 ("netlink: Fix wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250728080727.255138-1-pchelkin@ispras.ru Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netlink: make sure we allow at least one dump skb

2025-07-17T16:27:58+00:00

commit a215b5723922f8099078478122f02100e489cb80 upstream. Commit under Fixes tightened up the memory accounting for Netlink sockets. Looks like the accounting is too strict for some existing use cases, Marek reported issues with nl80211 / WiFi iw CLI. To reduce number of iterations Netlink dumps try to allocate messages based on the size of the buffer passed to previous recvmsg() calls. If user space uses a larger buffer in recvmsg() than sk_rcvbuf we will allocate an skb we won't be able to queue. Make sure we always allow at least one skb to be queued. Same workaround is already present in netlink_attachskb(). Alternative would be to cap the allocation size to rcvbuf - rmem_alloc but as I said, the workaround is already present in other places. Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/9794af18-4905-46c6-b12c-365ea2f05858@samsung.com Fixes: ae8f160e7eb2 ("netlink: Fix wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.") Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250711001121.3649033-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netlink: Fix rmem check in netlink_broadcast_deliver().

2025-07-17T16:27:57+00:00

commit a3c4a125ec725cefb40047eb05ff9eafd57830b4 upstream. We need to allow queuing at least one skb even when skb is larger than sk->sk_rcvbuf. The cited commit made a mistake while converting a condition in netlink_broadcast_deliver(). Let's correct the rmem check for the allow-one-skb rule. Fixes: ae8f160e7eb24 ("netlink: Fix wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250711053208.2965945-1-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netlink: Fix wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.

2025-07-17T16:27:52+00:00

[ Upstream commit ae8f160e7eb24240a2a79fc4c815c6a0d4ee16cc ] Netlink has this pattern in some places if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) > sk->sk_rcvbuf) atomic_add(skb->truesize, &sk->sk_rmem_alloc); , which has the same problem fixed by commit 5a465a0da13e ("udp: Fix multiple wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc."). For example, if we set INT_MAX to SO_RCVBUFFORCE, the condition is always false as the two operands are of int. Then, a single socket can eat as many skb as possible until OOM happens, and we can see multiple wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc. Let's fix it by using atomic_add_return() and comparing the two variables as unsigned int. Before: [root@fedora ~]# ss -f netlink Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port -1668710080 0 rtnl:nl_wraparound/293 * After: [root@fedora ~]# ss -f netlink Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port 2147483072 0 rtnl:nl_wraparound/290 * ^ `--- INT_MAX - 576 Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Jason Baron Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cover.1750285100.git.jbaron@akamai.com/ Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250704054824.1580222-1-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netlink: terminate outstanding dump on socket close

2024-12-14T18:47:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1904fb9ebf911441f90a68e96b22aa73e4410505 ] Netlink supports iterative dumping of data. It provides the families the following ops: - start - (optional) kicks off the dumping process - dump - actual dump helper, keeps getting called until it returns 0 - done - (optional) pairs with .start, can be used for cleanup The whole process is asynchronous and the repeated calls to .dump don't actually happen in a tight loop, but rather are triggered in response to recvmsg() on the socket. This gives the user full control over the dump, but also means that the user can close the socket without getting to the end of the dump. To make sure .start is always paired with .done we check if there is an ongoing dump before freeing the socket, and if so call .done. The complication is that sockets can get freed from BH and .done is allowed to sleep. So we use a workqueue to defer the call, when needed. Unfortunately this does not work correctly. What we defer is not the cleanup but rather releasing a reference on the socket. We have no guarantee that we own the last reference, if someone else holds the socket they may release it in BH and we're back to square one. The whole dance, however, appears to be unnecessary. Only the user can interact with dumps, so we can clean up when socket is closed. And close always happens in process context. Some async code may still access the socket after close, queue notification skbs to it etc. but no dumps can start, end or otherwise make progress. Delete the workqueue and flush the dump state directly from the release handler. Note that further cleanup is possible in -next, for instance we now always call .done before releasing the main module reference, so dump doesn't have to take a reference of its own. Reported-by: syzkaller Fixes: ed5d7788a934 ("netlink: Do not schedule work from sk_destruct") Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241106015235.2458807-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

genetlink: hold RCU in genlmsg_mcast()

2024-11-08T15:21:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit 56440d7ec28d60f8da3bfa09062b3368ff9b16db ] While running net selftests with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST=y I saw one lockdep splat [1]. genlmsg_mcast() uses for_each_net_rcu(), and must therefore hold RCU. Instead of letting all callers guard genlmsg_multicast_allns() with a rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair, do it in genlmsg_mcast(). This also means the @flags parameter is useless, we need to always use GFP_ATOMIC. [1] [10882.424136] ============================= [10882.424166] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage [10882.424309] 6.12.0-rc2-virtme #1156 Not tainted [10882.424400] ----------------------------- [10882.424423] net/netlink/genetlink.c:1940 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! [10882.424469] other info that might help us debug this: [10882.424500] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 [10882.424744] 2 locks held by ip/15677: [10882.424791] #0: ffffffffb6b491b0 (cb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219) [10882.426334] #1: ffffffffb6b49248 (genl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:61 net/netlink/genetlink.c:57 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209) [10882.426465] stack backtrace: [10882.426805] CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 15677 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-virtme #1156 [10882.426919] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [10882.427046] Call Trace: [10882.427131] [10882.427244] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123) [10882.427335] lockdep_rcu_suspicious (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6822) [10882.427387] genlmsg_multicast_allns (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1940 (discriminator 7) net/netlink/genetlink.c:1977 (discriminator 7)) [10882.427436] l2tp_tunnel_notify.constprop.0 (net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c:119) l2tp_netlink [10882.427683] l2tp_nl_cmd_tunnel_create (net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c:253) l2tp_netlink [10882.427748] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115) [10882.427834] genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210) [10882.427877] ? __pfx_l2tp_nl_cmd_tunnel_create (net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c:186) l2tp_netlink [10882.427927] ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1201) [10882.427959] netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2551) [10882.428069] genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1220) [10882.428095] netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1332 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1357) [10882.428140] netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1901) [10882.428210] ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:729 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:744 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2607 (discriminator 1)) Fixes: 33f72e6f0c67 ("l2tp : multicast notification to the registered listeners") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: James Chapman Cc: Tom Parkin Cc: Johannes Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241011171217.3166614-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: Fix an unsafe loop on the list

2024-10-17T13:08:37+00:00

commit 1dae9f1187189bc09ff6d25ca97ead711f7e26f9 upstream. The kernel may crash when deleting a genetlink family if there are still listeners for that family: Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] ... NIP [c000000000c080bc] netlink_update_socket_mc+0x3c/0xc0 LR [c000000000c0f764] __netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0 Call Trace: __netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0 genl_unregister_family+0xd4/0x2d0 Change the unsafe loop on the list to a safe one, because inside the loop there is an element removal from this list. Fixes: b8273570f802 ("genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anastasia Kovaleva Reviewed-by: Dmitry Bogdanov Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241003104431.12391-1-a.kovaleva@yadro.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman