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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@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v4 1/4] ipv6: remove ifaddr from hash during ifdown list cleanup
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:06:48 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261015050651.1841557-2-4ncienth@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261015050651.1841557-1-4ncienth@gmail.com>

addrconf_ifdown() clears the address hash before snapshotting the
per-device address list. A concurrent ipv6_add_addr() can publish an
address after the hash scan and before the list snapshot.

The ifdown path then removes the address from the device list and drops
the list-owned reference while it is still linked in the hash. Once the
remaining references are released, inet6_ifa_finish_destroy() warns, but
a DEAD address continues to kfree_rcu(). The hash therefore points to
freed memory that later RCU walkers can dereference.

This follow-on was found by source review and was not separately
triggered at runtime.

Remove each non-kept address from the hash immediately before removing
it from the per-device list. Keeping it hashed through the delete
notification blocks same-address publication until NETDEV_DOWN has been
delivered. hlist_del_init_rcu() is safe when the earlier hash scan
already removed the address.

This handles a late publisher captured by the list snapshot. The next
change serializes publication with teardown so an add cannot miss both
observations. Both changes are required when backporting the complete fix.

Fixes: 73a8bd74e261 ("ipv6: Revert 'administrative down' address handling changes.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261004135117.GA206930@shredder
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/179161099539.434549.2238120015372268173@kernel.org
Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index c90ee6dd7446cd..72d7df23f79674 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -4019,6 +4019,10 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_device *dev, bool unregister)
 		}
 
 		if (!keep) {
+			spin_lock_bh(&net->ipv6.addrconf_hash_lock);
+			hlist_del_init_rcu(&ifa->addr_lst);
+			spin_unlock_bh(&net->ipv6.addrconf_hash_lock);
+
 			write_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
 			list_del_rcu(&ifa->if_list);
 			write_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);
-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-15  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-15  5:06 [PATCH net v4 0/4] ipv6: fix address publication races with addrconf_ifdown Daehyeon Ko
2026-10-15  5:06 ` Daehyeon Ko [this message]
2026-10-15 14:31   ` [PATCH net v4 1/4] ipv6: remove ifaddr from hash during ifdown list cleanup Ido Schimmel
2026-10-15  5:06 ` [PATCH net v4 2/4] ipv6: serialize address publication with device teardown Daehyeon Ko
2026-10-15 14:32   ` Ido Schimmel
2026-10-15  5:06 ` [PATCH net v4 3/4] ipv6: initialize temporary ifaddr before publication Daehyeon Ko
2026-10-15 14:32   ` Ido Schimmel
2026-10-15  5:06 ` [PATCH net v4 4/4] ipv6: do not restart DAD for a dead ifaddr Daehyeon Ko
2026-10-15 14:32   ` Ido Schimmel

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