From: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] ipv4: do not warn on route notification size race
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 13:54:10 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007045410.3806739-1-4ncienth@gmail.com> (raw)
Commit 680aea08e78c ("net: ipv4: Emit notification when fib hardware
flags are changed") added asynchronous route notifications for hardware
flag changes.
fib_alias_hw_flags_set() sizes the skb with fib_nlmsg_size() and later
fills it with fib_dump_info() while holding only RCU. With nexthop
compatibility mode enabled, a concurrent replacement can grow the group
between these independent snapshots. fib_dump_info() can then
legitimately return -EMSGSIZE, so the warning does not prove a sizing bug.
Remove the warning. The existing error path still frees the skb and
reports the error to listeners.
Fixes: 680aea08e78c ("net: ipv4: Emit notification when fib hardware flags are changed")
Reported-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261004082043.GB92032@shredder/
Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
---
No new build or runtime test was run. This is the exact two-line deletion
suggested in the linked review.
net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
index acb1e43859143e..248514dce0cdd5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
@@ -1079,8 +1079,6 @@ void fib_alias_hw_flags_set(struct net *net, const struct fib_rt_info *fri)
err = fib_dump_info(skb, 0, 0, RTM_NEWROUTE, fri, 0);
if (err < 0) {
- /* -EMSGSIZE implies BUG in fib_nlmsg_size() */
- WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
kfree_skb(skb);
goto errout;
}
base-commit: 23609bce9e1de525d1d0e73fc68c6e7971d0b49e
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 4:54 Daehyeon Ko [this message]
2026-10-07 4:59 ` [PATCH net] ipv4: do not warn on route notification size race netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-07 11:40 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-10-09 4:57 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
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