[PATCH 6.12 222/460] dst: fix races in rt6_uncached_list_del() and rt_del_uncached_list()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T14:40:39Z

6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 9a6f0c4d5796ab89b5a28a890ce542344d58bd69 ]

syzbot was able to crash the kernel in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev()
in an interesting way [1]

Crash happens in list_del_init()/INIT_LIST_HEAD() while writing
list->prev, while the prior write on list->next went well.

static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list)
{
WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list); // This went well
WRITE_ONCE(list->prev, list); // Crash, @list has been freed.
}

Issue here is that rt6_uncached_list_del() did not attempt to lock
ul->lock, as list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached) returned
true because the WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list) happened on the other CPU.

We might use list_del_init_careful() and list_empty_careful(),
or make sure rt6_uncached_list_del() always grabs the spinlock
whenever rt->dst.rt_uncached_list has been set.

A similar fix is neeed for IPv4.

[1]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020
Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880294cfa78 by task kworker/u8:14/3450

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3450 Comm: kworker/u8:14 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline]
list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline]
rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline]
rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020
addrconf_ifdown+0x143/0x18a0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3853
addrconf_notify+0x1bc/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
netif_close_many+0x29c/0x410 net/core/dev.c:1785
unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0xb50/0x2330 net/core/dev.c:12353
ops_exit_rtnl_list net/core/net_namespace.c:187 [inline]
ops_undo_list+0x3dc/0x990 net/core/net_namespace.c:248
cleanup_net+0x4de/0x7b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:696
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
</TASK>

Allocated by task 803:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89
ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline]
icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333
mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844
mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Freed by task 20:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x18f/0x8d0 mm/slub.c:6781
dst_destroy+0x235/0x350 net/core/dst.c:121
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]
rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857 [inline]
rcu_cpu_kthread+0xba5/0x1af0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2945
smpboot_thread_fn+0x542/0xa60 kernel/smpboot.c:160
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
__call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3119 [inline]
call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3239
refdst_drop include/net/dst.h:266 [inline]
skb_dst_drop include/net/dst.h:278 [inline]
skb_release_head_state+0x71/0x360 net/core/skbuff.c:1156
skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1180 [inline]
__kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1196 [inline]
sk_skb_reason_drop+0xe9/0x170 net/core/skbuff.c:1234
kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline]
tcf_kfree_skb_list include/net/sch_generic.h:1127 [inline]
__dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4260 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x26aa/0x3210 net/core/dev.c:4785
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855
mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880294cfa00
which belongs to the cache ip6_dst_cache of size 232
The buggy address is located 120 bytes inside of
freed 232-byte region [ffff8880294cfa00, ffff8880294cfae8)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x294cf
memcg:ffff88803536b781
flags: 0x80000000000000(node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000000 ffff88802ff1c8c0 ffffea0000bf2bc0 dead000000000006
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000800c000c 00000000f5000000 ffff88803536b781
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 9, tgid 9 (kworker/0:0), ts 91119585830, free_ts 91088628818
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
___slab_alloc+0xb10/0x13e0 mm/slub.c:4656
__slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4779
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x101/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89
ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline]
icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333
mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844
mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
page last free pid 5859 tgid 5859 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xfe1/0x1170 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline]
__put_partials+0x149/0x170 mm/slub.c:3886
__slab_free+0x2af/0x330 mm/slub.c:5952
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
getname_flags+0xb8/0x540 fs/namei.c:146
getname include/linux/fs.h:2498 [inline]
do_sys_openat2+0xbc/0x200 fs/open.c:1426
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1447
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

Fixes: 8d0b94afdca8 ("ipv6: Keep track of DST_NOCACHE routes in case of iface down/unregister")
Fixes: 78df76a065ae ("ipv4: take rt_uncached_lock only if needed")
Reported-by: syzbot+179fc225724092b8b2b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6964cdf2.050a0220.eaf7.009d.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112103825.3810713-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/core/dst.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/route.c | 4 ++--
net/ipv6/route.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/dst.c
+++ b/net/core/dst.c
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ void dst_init(struct dst_entry *dst, str
dst->lwtstate = NULL;
rcuref_init(&dst->__rcuref, 1);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dst->rt_uncached);
+ dst->rt_uncached_list = NULL;
dst->__use = 0;
dst->lastuse = jiffies;
dst->flags = flags;
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -1533,9 +1533,9 @@ void rt_add_uncached_list(struct rtable

void rt_del_uncached_list(struct rtable *rt)
{
- if (!list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached)) {
- struct uncached_list *ul = rt->dst.rt_uncached_list;
+ struct uncached_list *ul = rt->dst.rt_uncached_list;

+ if (ul) {
spin_lock_bh(&ul->lock);
list_del_init(&rt->dst.rt_uncached);
spin_unlock_bh(&ul->lock);
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ void rt6_uncached_list_add(struct rt6_in

void rt6_uncached_list_del(struct rt6_info *rt)
{
- if (!list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached)) {
- struct uncached_list *ul = rt->dst.rt_uncached_list;
+ struct uncached_list *ul = rt->dst.rt_uncached_list;

+ if (ul) {
spin_lock_bh(&ul->lock);
list_del_init(&rt->dst.rt_uncached);
spin_unlock_bh(&ul->lock);