From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
syzbot+9b35e9bc0951140d13e6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: fix a BUG in rt6_get_pcpu_route() under PREEMPT_RT
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:51:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251219025140.77695-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
On PREEMPT_RT kernels, after rt6_get_pcpu_route() returns NULL, the
current task can be preempted. Another task running on the same CPU
may then execute rt6_make_pcpu_route() and successfully install a
pcpu_rt entry. When the first task resumes execution, its cmpxchg()
in rt6_make_pcpu_route() will fail because rt6i_pcpu is no longer
NULL, triggering the BUG_ON(prev). It's easy to reproduce it by adding
mdelay() after rt6_get_pcpu_route().
Using preempt_disable/enable is not appropriate here because
ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() may sleep.
Fix this by:
1. Removing the BUG_ON and instead handling the race gracefully by
freeing our allocation and returning the existing pcpu_rt when
cmpxchg() fails.
2. Keeping the BUG_ON for non-PREEMPT_RT kernels, since preemption
should not occur in this context and a cmpxchg failure would
indicate a real bug.
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9b35e9bc0951140d13e6
Fixes: 951f788a80ff ("ipv6: fix a BUG in rt6_get_pcpu_route()")
Reported-by: syzbot+9b35e9bc0951140d13e6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6918cd88.050a0220.1c914e.0045.GAE@google.com/T/
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
v1 -> v2: Drop migrate_{disable, enabled} suggested by Steven and Paolo.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251209124805.379112-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/T/
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index aee6a10b112a..9e7afda7cba2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1470,7 +1470,18 @@ static struct rt6_info *rt6_make_pcpu_route(struct net *net,
p = this_cpu_ptr(res->nh->rt6i_pcpu);
prev = cmpxchg(p, NULL, pcpu_rt);
- BUG_ON(prev);
+ if (unlikely(prev)) {
+ /*
+ * Another task on this CPU already installed a pcpu_rt.
+ * This can happen on PREEMPT_RT where preemption is possible.
+ * Free our allocation and return the existing one.
+ */
+ BUG_ON(!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT));
+
+ dst_dev_put(&pcpu_rt->dst);
+ dst_release(&pcpu_rt->dst);
+ return prev;
+ }
if (res->f6i->fib6_destroying) {
struct fib6_info *from;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-12-19 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-19 2:51 Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2025-12-22 8:50 ` [PATCH net v2] ipv6: fix a BUG in rt6_get_pcpu_route() under PREEMPT_RT Eric Dumazet
2025-12-22 17:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-12-22 17:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-12-23 2:38 ` Jiayuan Chen
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