From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
dsahern@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 11:45:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260301194548.927324-1-kuba@kernel.org> (raw)
l3mdev_master_dev_rcu() can return NULL when the slave device is being
un-slaved from a VRF. All other callers deal with this, but we lost
the fallback to loopback in ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() -> ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()
with commit 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on
device with address").
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f]
RIP: 0010:ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc (net/ipv6/route.c:1418)
Call Trace:
ip6_pol_route (net/ipv6/route.c:2318)
fib6_rule_lookup (net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:115)
ip6_route_output_flags (net/ipv6/route.c:2607)
vrf_process_v6_outbound (drivers/net/vrf.c:437)
I was tempted to rework the un-slaving code to clear the flag first
and insert synchronize_rcu() before we remove the upper. But looks like
the explicit fallback to loopback_dev is an established pattern.
And I guess avoiding the synchronize_rcu() is nice, too.
Fixes: 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on device with address")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
now that NIPA is not full of the tc-action.sh crashes this 1 in ~30 runs
crash in fcnal_ipv6.sh pops out quite clearly.
CC: dsahern@kernel.org
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 85df25c36409..7db0c837196c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1063,7 +1063,8 @@ static struct net_device *ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu(const struct fib6_result *res)
*/
if (netif_is_l3_slave(dev) &&
!rt6_need_strict(&res->f6i->fib6_dst.addr))
- dev = l3mdev_master_dev_rcu(dev);
+ dev = l3mdev_master_dev_rcu(dev) ? :
+ dev_net(dev)->loopback_dev;
else if (!netif_is_l3_master(dev))
dev = dev_net(dev)->loopback_dev;
/* last case is netif_is_l3_master(dev) is true in which
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-01 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-01 19:45 Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-03-02 1:38 ` [PATCH net] ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu() David Ahern
2026-03-02 14:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-03 0:09 ` David Ahern
2026-03-04 1:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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