[PATCH net] bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in actor_port_prio setting

[PATCH net] bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in actor_port_prio setting

[Hangbin Liu]

Liang reported an issue where setting a slave’s actor_port_prio to
predefined values such as 0, 255, or 65535 would cause a system crash.

The problem occurs because in bond_opt_parse(), when the provided value
matches a predefined table entry, the function returns that table entry,
which does not contain slave information. Later, in
bond_option_actor_port_prio_set(), calling bond_slave_get_rtnl() leads
to a NULL pointer dereference.

Since actor_port_prio is defined as a u16 and initialized to the default
value of 255 in ad_initialize_port(), there is no need for the
bond_actor_port_prio_tbl. Using the BOND_OPTFLAG_RAWVAL flag is sufficient.

Fixes: 6b6dc81ee7e8 ("bonding: add support for per-port LACP actor priority")
Reported-by: Liang Li <liali@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
---

BTW, the logic in bond_opt_parse() may also need an update after we have
f2b3b28ce523 ("bonding: add slave_dev field for bond_opt_value"), as we
may need range checking on slave options in future. But this should
be another patch and not urgent as this one.

---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
index 495a87f2ea7c..384499c869b8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
@@ -225,13 +225,6 @@ static const struct bond_opt_value bond_ad_actor_sys_prio_tbl[] = {
 	{ NULL,      -1,    0},
 };
 
-static const struct bond_opt_value bond_actor_port_prio_tbl[] = {
-	{ "minval",  0,     BOND_VALFLAG_MIN},
-	{ "maxval",  65535, BOND_VALFLAG_MAX},
-	{ "default", 255,   BOND_VALFLAG_DEFAULT},
-	{ NULL,      -1,    0},
-};
-
 static const struct bond_opt_value bond_ad_user_port_key_tbl[] = {
 	{ "minval",  0,     BOND_VALFLAG_MIN | BOND_VALFLAG_DEFAULT},
 	{ "maxval",  1023,  BOND_VALFLAG_MAX},
@@ -497,7 +490,7 @@ static const struct bond_option bond_opts[BOND_OPT_LAST] = {
 		.id = BOND_OPT_ACTOR_PORT_PRIO,
 		.name = "actor_port_prio",
 		.unsuppmodes = BOND_MODE_ALL_EX(BIT(BOND_MODE_8023AD)),
-		.values = bond_actor_port_prio_tbl,
+		.flags = BOND_OPTFLAG_RAWVAL,
 		.set = bond_option_actor_port_prio_set,
 	},
 	[BOND_OPT_AD_ACTOR_SYSTEM] = {
-- 
2.50.1

Re: [PATCH net] bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in actor_port_prio setting

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Wed,  5 Nov 2025 07:26:20 +0000 you wrote:
> Liang reported an issue where setting a slave’s actor_port_prio to
> predefined values such as 0, 255, or 65535 would cause a system crash.
> 
> The problem occurs because in bond_opt_parse(), when the provided value
> matches a predefined table entry, the function returns that table entry,
> which does not contain slave information. Later, in
> bond_option_actor_port_prio_set(), calling bond_slave_get_rtnl() leads
> to a NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in actor_port_prio setting
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/067bf016e99a

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