From: Subasri S <subasris1210@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+c06674caba265dc61d46@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Subasri S <subasris1210@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] netdevsim: update rxq->napi pointer during queue reset
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:19:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260812-net-netdevsim-v1-1-521a85e4fe91@gmail.com> (raw)
In netdevsim, when queue reset is performed using debugfs, it triggers
these sequence of operations: nsim_queue_stop() -> nsim_queue_start()
-> nsim_queue_mem_free(). nsim_queue_mem_free() frees the old
nsim_rq struct which embeds the napi_struct. But the rxq->napi pointer
in the struct netdev_rx_queue still points to the old nsim_rq's embedded
napi_struct. So, any subsequent xsk_bind() which reads rxq->napi->napi_id
after a queue reset is a use-after-free.
Add netif_queue_set_napi() calls to nsim_queue_stop() and
nsim_queue_start() which clears the rxq->napi during stop
and sets it to the new napi instance during start.
KASAN report:
Call Trace:
kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
xsk_bind+0x1582/0x16c0 net/xdp/xsk.c:1758
__sys_bind_socket net/socket.c:1920 [inline]
__sys_bind_socket net/socket.c:1912 [inline]
__sys_bind+0x1a9/0x260 net/socket.c:1951
Allocated by task 5622:
nsim_queue_alloc+0x3c/0x140 drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c:715
nsim_queue_init drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c:1012 [inline]
nsim_init_netdevsim drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c:1059 [inline]
nsim_create+0xb13/0x1420 drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c:1152
__nsim_dev_port_add+0x3ba/0x8f0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:1509
nsim_dev_port_add_all drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:1570 [inline]
nsim_drv_probe+0xdbd/0x13a0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:1731
Freed by task 5659:
slab_free mm/slub.c:6377 [inline]
kfree+0x22b/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6692
nsim_queue_mem_free+0xfe/0x190 drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c:796
netdev_rx_queue_reconfig+0x405/0x630 net/core/netdev_rx_queue.c:144
netdev_rx_queue_restart+0x8f/0xc0 net/core/netdev_rx_queue.c:183
nsim_qreset_write+0x2e3/0x410 drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c:887
Reported-by: syzbot+c06674caba265dc61d46@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c06674caba265dc61d46
Fixes: 5bc8e8dbef27 ("netdevsim: add queue management API support")
Tested-by: syzbot+c06674caba265dc61d46@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Subasri S <subasris1210@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c
index 4e9d7e10b527..c18f9f540084 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c
@@ -826,6 +826,8 @@ nsim_queue_start(struct net_device *dev, struct netdev_queue_config *qcfg,
}
ns->rq[idx] = qmem->rq;
+ netif_queue_set_napi(dev, idx, NETDEV_QUEUE_TYPE_RX,
+ &ns->rq[idx]->napi);
napi_enable_locked(&ns->rq[idx]->napi);
return 0;
@@ -838,6 +840,7 @@ static int nsim_queue_stop(struct net_device *dev, void *per_queue_mem, int idx)
netdev_assert_locked(dev);
+ netif_queue_set_napi(dev, idx, NETDEV_QUEUE_TYPE_RX, NULL);
napi_disable_locked(&ns->rq[idx]->napi);
if (ns->rq_reset_mode == 1) {
---
base-commit: a59f57e2aa127c5354168d2ec4bac920df1be4f4
change-id: 20260812-net-netdevsim-aad6100834dd
Best regards,
--
Subasri S <subasris1210@gmail.com>
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