From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: jv@jvosburgh.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: [PATCH net v4 1/2] bonding: fix null-ptr-deref in bond_rr_gen_slave_id()
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 15:42:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260304074301.35482-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260304074301.35482-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
bond_rr_gen_slave_id() dereferences bond->rr_tx_counter without a NULL
check. rr_tx_counter is a per-CPU counter only allocated in bond_open()
when the bond mode is round-robin. If the bond device was never brought
up, rr_tx_counter remains NULL, causing a null-ptr-deref.
The XDP redirect path can reach this code even when the bond is not up:
bpf_master_redirect_enabled_key is a global static key, so when any bond
device has native XDP attached, the XDP_TX -> xdp_master_redirect()
interception is enabled for all bond slaves system-wide. This allows the
path xdp_master_redirect() -> bond_xdp_get_xmit_slave() ->
bond_xdp_xmit_roundrobin_slave_get() -> bond_rr_gen_slave_id() to be
reached on a bond that was never opened.
Fix this by allocating rr_tx_counter unconditionally in bond_init()
(ndo_init), which is called by register_netdevice() and covers both
device creation paths (bond_create() and bond_newlink()). This also
handles the case where bond mode is changed to round-robin after device
creation. The conditional allocation in bond_open() is removed. Since
bond_destructor() already unconditionally calls
free_percpu(bond->rr_tx_counter), the lifecycle is clean: allocate at
ndo_init, free at destructor.
Note: rr_tx_counter is only used by round-robin mode, so this
deliberately allocates a per-cpu u32 that goes unused for other modes.
Conditional allocation (e.g., in bond_option_mode_set) was considered
but rejected: the XDP path can race with mode changes on a downed bond,
and adding memory barriers to the XDP hot path is not justified for
saving 4 bytes per CPU.
Fixes: 879af96ffd72 ("net, core: Add support for XDP redirection to slave device")
Reported-by: syzbot+80e046b8da2820b6ba73@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/698f84c6.a70a0220.2c38d7.00cc.GAE@google.com/T/
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 78cff904cdc3..55b5c7a6cb5f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4279,12 +4279,6 @@ static int bond_open(struct net_device *bond_dev)
struct list_head *iter;
struct slave *slave;
- if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ROUNDROBIN && !bond->rr_tx_counter) {
- bond->rr_tx_counter = alloc_percpu(u32);
- if (!bond->rr_tx_counter)
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
/* reset slave->backup and slave->inactive */
if (bond_has_slaves(bond)) {
bond_for_each_slave(bond, slave, iter) {
@@ -6411,6 +6405,19 @@ static int bond_init(struct net_device *bond_dev)
if (!bond->wq)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /* rr_tx_counter is only used in round-robin mode, but we allocate
+ * it unconditionally because the XDP redirect path
+ * (xdp_master_redirect -> bond_xdp_get_xmit_slave) can reach here
+ * even when the bond is not up, and deferring allocation to
+ * bond_open or bond_option_mode_set would require memory barriers
+ * on the XDP hot path. The cost is a per-cpu u32 per bond device.
+ */
+ bond->rr_tx_counter = alloc_percpu(u32);
+ if (!bond->rr_tx_counter) {
+ destroy_workqueue(bond->wq);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
bond->notifier_ctx = false;
spin_lock_init(&bond->stats_lock);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-04 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-04 7:42 [PATCH net v4 0/2] net,bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for bonding and add selftest Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-04 7:42 ` Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-03-04 8:20 ` [PATCH net v4 1/2] bonding: fix null-ptr-deref in bond_rr_gen_slave_id() Daniel Borkmann
2026-03-04 8:47 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-04 9:40 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-03-04 15:59 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-03-04 17:27 ` Jay Vosburgh
2026-03-04 17:32 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-03-05 21:03 ` Jay Vosburgh
2026-03-06 2:42 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-06 12:22 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-03-06 12:38 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-04 7:42 ` [PATCH net v4 2/2] selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up Jiayuan Chen
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