[PATCH 6.18 191/198] wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-20T16:05:23Z

From: Shardul Bankar <shardul.b@mpiricsoftware.com>

commit 60a25ef8dacb3566b1a8c4de00572a498e2a3bf9 upstream.

wg_netns_pre_exit() manually acquires rtnl_lock() inside the
pernet .pre_exit callback. This causes a hung task when another
thread holds rtnl_mutex - the cleanup_net workqueue (or the
setup_net failure rollback path) blocks indefinitely in
wg_netns_pre_exit() waiting to acquire the lock.

Convert to .exit_rtnl, introduced in commit 7a60d91c690b ("net:
Add ->exit_rtnl() hook to struct pernet_operations."), where the
framework already holds RTNL and batches all callbacks under a
single rtnl_lock()/rtnl_unlock() pair, eliminating the contention
window.

The rcu_assign_pointer(wg->creating_net, NULL) is safe to move
from .pre_exit to .exit_rtnl (which runs after synchronize_rcu())
because all RCU readers of creating_net either use maybe_get_net()
- which returns NULL for a dying namespace with zero refcount - or
access net->user_ns which remains valid throughout the entire
ops_undo_list sequence.

Reported-by: syzbot+f2fbf7478a35a94c8b7c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=cb64c22a492202ca929e18262fdb8cb89e635c70
Signed-off-by: Shardul Bankar <shardul.b@mpiricsoftware.com>
[ Jason: added __net_exit and __read_mostly annotations that were missing. ]
Fixes: 900575aa33a3 ("wireguard: device: avoid circular netns references")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260414153944.2742252-5-Jason@zx2c4.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/wireguard/device.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireguard/device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireguard/device.c
@@ -411,12 +411,11 @@ static struct rtnl_link_ops link_ops __r
.newlink = wg_newlink,
};

-static void wg_netns_pre_exit(struct net *net)
+static void __net_exit wg_netns_exit_rtnl(struct net *net, struct list_head *dev_kill_list)
{
struct wg_device *wg;
struct wg_peer *peer;

- rtnl_lock();
list_for_each_entry(wg, &device_list, device_list) {
if (rcu_access_pointer(wg->creating_net) == net) {
pr_debug("%s: Creating namespace exiting\n", wg->dev->name);
@@ -429,11 +428,10 @@ static void wg_netns_pre_exit(struct net
mutex_unlock(&wg->device_update_lock);
}
}
- rtnl_unlock();
}

-static struct pernet_operations pernet_ops = {
- .pre_exit = wg_netns_pre_exit
+static struct pernet_operations pernet_ops __read_mostly = {
+ .exit_rtnl = wg_netns_exit_rtnl
};

int __init wg_device_init(void)