From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 net 3/3] ipv4: igmp: Fix potential memory leaks in igmp_mod_timer() and igmp_stop_timer()
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 18:17:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260705181756.963063-4-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705181756.963063-1-edumazet@google.com>
When a timer is deleted and not re-armed in igmp_mod_timer(), or stopped
in igmp_stop_timer(), the code currently decrements the reference counter
of the multicast list entry @im using refcount_dec(&im->refcnt).
However, both functions can be called from the RCU reader path:
- igmp_mod_timer() via igmp_heard_query() -> for_each_pmc_rcu()
- igmp_stop_timer() via igmp_rcv() -> igmp_heard_report()
If the group im was concurrently removed from the list by ip_mc_dec_group(),
its reference count might have already been decremented to 1.
In this case, timer_delete() succeeds, and refcount_dec() decrements
the refcount from 1 to 0. Since refcount_dec() does not free the object
when it hits 0 (unlike ip_ma_put()), the im structure is leaked.
Fix this by using ip_ma_put(im) instead of refcount_dec(&im->refcnt),
and deferring the put until after the spinlock is released.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
net/ipv4/igmp.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/igmp.c b/net/ipv4/igmp.c
index f5f9763895641bf86bfcf9fd7fd7b06012fa4ece..957013e7f7a25f32d848822caab322147db3dc6e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/igmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/igmp.c
@@ -217,13 +217,18 @@ static void ip_sf_list_clear_all(struct ip_sf_list *psf)
static void igmp_stop_timer(struct ip_mc_list *im)
{
+ bool put = false;
+
spin_lock_bh(&im->lock);
if (timer_delete(&im->timer))
- refcount_dec(&im->refcnt);
+ put = true;
WRITE_ONCE(im->tm_running, 0);
WRITE_ONCE(im->reporter, 0);
im->unsolicit_count = 0;
spin_unlock_bh(&im->lock);
+
+ if (put)
+ ip_ma_put(im);
}
/* It must be called with locked im->lock */
@@ -266,6 +271,8 @@ static void igmp_ifc_start_timer(struct in_device *in_dev, int delay)
static void igmp_mod_timer(struct ip_mc_list *im, int max_delay)
{
+ bool put = false;
+
spin_lock_bh(&im->lock);
im->unsolicit_count = 0;
if (timer_delete(&im->timer)) {
@@ -275,10 +282,13 @@ static void igmp_mod_timer(struct ip_mc_list *im, int max_delay)
spin_unlock_bh(&im->lock);
return;
}
- refcount_dec(&im->refcnt);
+ put = true;
}
igmp_start_timer(im, max_delay);
spin_unlock_bh(&im->lock);
+
+ if (put)
+ ip_ma_put(im);
}
--
2.55.0.rc0.799.gd6f94ed593-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-05 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-05 18:17 [PATCH v2 net 0/3] ipv4/ipv6: Fix UAF and memory leak in IGMP/MLD Eric Dumazet
2026-07-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v2 net 1/3] ipv4: igmp: Fix potential UAF in igmp_gq_start_timer() Eric Dumazet
2026-07-06 15:28 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-07-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v2 net 2/3] ipv6: mcast: Fix potential UAF in MLD delayed work Eric Dumazet
2026-07-06 15:29 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-07-05 18:17 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-07-06 15:30 ` [PATCH v2 net 3/3] ipv4: igmp: Fix potential memory leaks in igmp_mod_timer() and igmp_stop_timer() Ido Schimmel
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