From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 net 4/5] ipv6: mcast: use rcu_assign_pointer() for __rcu list updates
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:45:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260828084531.1826790-5-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260828084531.1826790-1-edumazet@google.com>
Several places in net/ipv6/mcast.c update RCU-protected lists
(np->ipv6_mc_list, idev->mc_list, idev->mc_tomb) using direct pointer
assignments instead of rcu_assign_pointer():
1. In __ipv6_dev_mc_dec(), unlinking a group from idev->mc_list did:
*map = ma->next;
without rcu_assign_pointer() while concurrent readers traverse
idev->mc_list locklessly under rcu_read_lock().
2. In ipv6_sock_mc_drop() and __ipv6_sock_mc_close(), unlinking a group
from np->ipv6_mc_list directly assigned *lnk = mc_lst->next and
np->ipv6_mc_list = mc_lst->next without rcu_assign_pointer(), racing
with lockless readers in inet6_mc_check().
3. In __ipv6_sock_mc_join(), mc_lst->next was initialized to
np->ipv6_mc_list via raw assignment before publishing mc_lst.
4. In mld_del_delrec() and __ipv6_dev_mc_inc(), __rcu source pointers
passed into rcu_assign_pointer() lacked explicit dereference helpers.
Fix these by consistently using rcu_assign_pointer() along with
mc_dereference() / sock_dereference().
Fixes: 456b61bca8ee ("ipv6: mcast: RCU conversion")
Fixes: 88e2ca308094 ("mld: convert ifmcaddr6 to RCU")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv6/mcast.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
index 4423b90dc9abffff9661da22caa4b9e2f618def7..2290457eb8d3dd7a8d19fa9bf19f97160b7d2492 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
@@ -240,7 +240,8 @@ static int __ipv6_sock_mc_join(struct sock *sk, int ifindex,
return err;
}
- mc_lst->next = np->ipv6_mc_list;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(mc_lst->next,
+ sock_dereference(np->ipv6_mc_list, sk));
rcu_assign_pointer(np->ipv6_mc_list, mc_lst);
return 0;
@@ -300,7 +301,8 @@ int ipv6_sock_mc_drop(struct sock *sk, int ifindex, const struct in6_addr *addr)
lnk = &mc_lst->next) {
if ((ifindex == 0 || mc_lst->ifindex == ifindex) &&
ipv6_addr_equal(&mc_lst->addr, addr)) {
- *lnk = mc_lst->next;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(*lnk,
+ sock_dereference(mc_lst->next, sk));
__ipv6_sock_mc_drop(sk, mc_lst);
return 0;
}
@@ -333,7 +335,8 @@ void __ipv6_sock_mc_close(struct sock *sk)
struct ipv6_mc_socklist *mc_lst;
while ((mc_lst = sock_dereference(np->ipv6_mc_list, sk)) != NULL) {
- np->ipv6_mc_list = mc_lst->next;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(np->ipv6_mc_list,
+ sock_dereference(mc_lst->next, sk));
__ipv6_sock_mc_drop(sk, mc_lst);
}
}
@@ -798,9 +801,11 @@ static void mld_del_delrec(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct ifmcaddr6 *im)
if (!pmc)
return;
if (pmc_prev)
- rcu_assign_pointer(pmc_prev->next, pmc->next);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(pmc_prev->next,
+ mc_dereference(pmc->next, idev));
else
- rcu_assign_pointer(idev->mc_tomb, pmc->next);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(idev->mc_tomb,
+ mc_dereference(pmc->next, idev));
im->idev = pmc->idev;
if (im->mca_sfmode == MCAST_INCLUDE) {
@@ -980,7 +985,7 @@ static int __ipv6_dev_mc_inc(struct net_device *dev,
return -ENOMEM;
}
- rcu_assign_pointer(mc->next, idev->mc_list);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(mc->next, mc_dereference(idev->mc_list, idev));
rcu_assign_pointer(idev->mc_list, mc);
mld_del_delrec(idev, mc);
@@ -1014,7 +1019,8 @@ int __ipv6_dev_mc_dec(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr)
WRITE_ONCE(ma->mca_users, new_users);
if (new_users == 0) {
- *map = ma->next;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(*map,
+ mc_dereference(ma->next, idev));
igmp6_group_dropped(ma);
inet6_ifmcaddr_notify(idev->dev, ma,
--
2.55.0.897.gb25b4bd76c-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-28 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-28 8:45 [PATCH v2 net 0/5] ipv6: mcast: RCU and timer fixes Eric Dumazet
2026-08-28 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 net 1/5] ipv6: mcast: fix RCU list diversion in ip6_mc_del1_src() Eric Dumazet
2026-08-30 15:44 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-08-28 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 net 2/5] ipv6: mcast: use copy-on-write RCU updates in ip6_mc_source() Eric Dumazet
2026-08-30 15:44 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-08-28 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 net 3/5] ipv6: mcast: fix delay calculation in igmp6_join_group() Eric Dumazet
2026-08-30 15:44 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-08-28 8:45 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-08-30 15:45 ` [PATCH v2 net 4/5] ipv6: mcast: use rcu_assign_pointer() for __rcu list updates Ido Schimmel
2026-08-28 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 net 5/5] ipv6: mcast: use jiffies_delta_to_clock_t() in igmp6_mc_seq_show() Eric Dumazet
2026-08-30 15:45 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-09-01 1:10 ` [PATCH v2 net 0/5] ipv6: mcast: RCU and timer fixes patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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