From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>, Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y 3/3] ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 13:25:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908172529.78857-3-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908172529.78857-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
[ Upstream commit e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10d ]
IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb->sk association installed by
bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under
RCU. Both address families can also prefetch a socket in UDP early demux.
In both paths (BPF and UDP early demux) a reference is not guaranteed to
be held on the socket.
When a multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the
original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the
original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the
skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the
receive-side RCU section ends.
After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes
sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb->sk. Orphan the skb before
each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the
original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding
with a socket-free clone.
Fixes: cf7fbe660f2d ("bpf: Add socket assign support")
Fixes: 08842c43d016 ("udp: no longer touch sk->sk_refcnt in early demux")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0c52eb3d7532aaf8bccf37e0f7c922143c639735.1786552223.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 3 +++
net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
index f0294b1148246..131b565c52051 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
@@ -2140,6 +2140,9 @@ int ip_mr_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (IPCB(skb)->flags & IPSKB_FORWARDED)
goto dont_forward;
+ if (!local)
+ skb_orphan(skb);
+
mrt = ipmr_rt_fib_lookup(net, skb);
if (IS_ERR(mrt)) {
kfree_skb(skb);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
index bc535e79bdc8d..f0a98c61a087a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ int ip6_mc_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (deliver) {
skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
} else {
+ skb_orphan(skb);
skb2 = skb;
skb = NULL;
}
--
2.53.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-08 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-03 14:00 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
2026-09-08 17:25 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/3] ipv6: adopt skb_dst_dev() and skb_dst_dev_net[_rcu]() helpers Sasha Levin
2026-09-08 17:25 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 2/3] ipv6: ip6_mc_input() and ip6_mr_input() cleanups Sasha Levin
2026-09-08 17:25 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 3/3] ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding Sasha Levin
2026-09-08 17:25 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/3] ipv6: adopt skb_dst_dev() and skb_dst_dev_net[_rcu]() helpers Sasha Levin
2026-09-08 17:25 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 2/3] ipv6: ip6_mc_input() and ip6_mr_input() cleanups Sasha Levin
2026-09-08 17:25 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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