[PATCH 6.6 025/254] ipv6: Fix use-after-free in inet6_addr_del().

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-28T15:27:44Z

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>

[ Upstream commit ddf96c393a33aef4887e2e406c76c2f8cda1419c ]

syzbot reported use-after-free of inet6_ifaddr in
inet6_addr_del(). [0]

The cited commit accidentally moved ipv6_del_addr() for
mngtmpaddr before reading its ifp->flags for temporary
addresses in inet6_addr_del().

Let's move ipv6_del_addr() down to fix the UAF.

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in inet6_addr_del.constprop.0+0x67a/0x6b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3117
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88807b89c86c by task syz.3.1618/9593

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9593 Comm: syz.3.1618 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595
inet6_addr_del.constprop.0+0x67a/0x6b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3117
addrconf_del_ifaddr+0x11e/0x190 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3181
inet6_ioctl+0x1e5/0x2b0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:582
sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1254
sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1375
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f164cf8f749
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f164de64038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f164d1e5fa0 RCX: 00007f164cf8f749
RDX: 0000200000000000 RSI: 0000000000008936 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f164d013f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f164d1e6038 R14: 00007f164d1e5fa0 R15: 00007ffde15c8288
</TASK>

Allocated by task 9593:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:397 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:414
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
ipv6_add_addr+0x4e3/0x2010 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1120
inet6_addr_add+0x256/0x9b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3050
addrconf_add_ifaddr+0x1fc/0x450 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3160
inet6_ioctl+0x103/0x2b0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:580
sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1254
sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1375
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 6099:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:2569 [inline]
slab_free_bulk mm/slub.c:6696 [inline]
kmem_cache_free_bulk mm/slub.c:7383 [inline]
kmem_cache_free_bulk+0x2bf/0x680 mm/slub.c:7362
kfree_bulk include/linux/slab.h:830 [inline]
kvfree_rcu_bulk+0x1b7/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:1523
kvfree_rcu_drain_ready mm/slab_common.c:1728 [inline]
kfree_rcu_monitor+0x1d0/0x2f0 mm/slab_common.c:1801
process_one_work+0x9ba/0x1b20 kernel/workqueue.c:3257
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline]
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x983/0xb10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Fixes: 00b5b7aab9e42 ("net/ipv6: delete temporary address if mngtmpaddr is removed or unmanaged")
Reported-by: syzbot+72e610f4f1a930ca9d8a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/696598e9.050a0220.3be5c5.0009.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113010538.2019411-1-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 2737bb4751e4c..4958452cd3320 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -3111,12 +3111,12 @@ static int inet6_addr_del(struct net *net, int ifindex, u32 ifa_flags,
in6_ifa_hold(ifp);
read_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);

- ipv6_del_addr(ifp);
-
if (!(ifp->flags & IFA_F_TEMPORARY) &&
(ifp->flags & IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR))
delete_tempaddrs(idev, ifp);

+ ipv6_del_addr(ifp);
+
addrconf_verify_rtnl(net);
if (ipv6_addr_is_multicast(pfx)) {
ipv6_mc_config(net->ipv6.mc_autojoin_sk,
--
2.51.0