From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: patches@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
horms@verge.net.au, pablo@netfilter.org, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
jwiesner@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] ipvs: fix NULL deref in ip_vs_add_service error path
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:20:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260420132314.1023554-226-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260420132314.1023554-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 9a91797e61d286805ae10a92cc48959c30800556 ]
When ip_vs_bind_scheduler() succeeds in ip_vs_add_service(), the local
variable sched is set to NULL. If ip_vs_start_estimator() subsequently
fails, the out_err cleanup calls ip_vs_unbind_scheduler(svc, sched)
with sched == NULL. ip_vs_unbind_scheduler() passes the cur_sched NULL
check (because svc->scheduler was set by the successful bind) but then
dereferences the NULL sched parameter at sched->done_service, causing a
kernel panic at offset 0x30 from NULL.
Oops: general protection fault, [..] [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037]
RIP: 0010:ip_vs_unbind_scheduler (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c:69)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ip_vs_add_service.isra.0 (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:1500)
do_ip_vs_set_ctl (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:2809)
nf_setsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:102)
[..]
Fix by simply not clearing the local sched variable after a successful
bind. ip_vs_unbind_scheduler() already detects whether a scheduler is
installed via svc->scheduler, and keeping sched non-NULL ensures the
error path passes the correct pointer to both ip_vs_unbind_scheduler()
and ip_vs_scheduler_put().
While the bug is older, the problem popups in more recent kernels (6.2),
when the new error path is taken after the ip_vs_start_estimator() call.
Fixes: 705dd3444081 ("ipvs: use kthreads for stats estimation")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:
Error: Failed to generate final synthesis
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index 4c8fa22be88ad..e442ba6033d5f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
@@ -1453,7 +1453,6 @@ ip_vs_add_service(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_service_user_kern *u,
ret = ip_vs_bind_scheduler(svc, sched);
if (ret)
goto out_err;
- sched = NULL;
}
ret = ip_vs_start_estimator(ipvs, &svc->stats);
--
2.53.0
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