From: "Ricardo B. Marlière" <rbm@suse.com>
To: "Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
"Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@fomichev.me>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
"Eduard Zingerman" <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
"Song Liu" <song@kernel.org>,
"Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
"KP Singh" <kpsingh@kernel.org>, "Hao Luo" <haoluo@google.com>,
"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"David Ahern" <dsahern@kernel.org>,
"Jay Vosburgh" <jv@jvosburgh.net>,
"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"Hangbin Liu" <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: "Fernando Fernandez Mancera" <fmancera@suse.de>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Ricardo B. Marlière" <rbm@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v4 4/4] bpf: bpf_out_neigh_v6: Fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:50:56 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260307-net-nd_tbl_fixes-v4-4-e2677e85628c@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260307-net-nd_tbl_fixes-v4-0-e2677e85628c@suse.com>
When booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, the nd_tbl is never
initialized because inet6_init() exits before ndisc_init() is called which
initializes it. If bpf_redirect_neigh() is called with explicit AF_INET6
nexthop parameters, __bpf_redirect_neigh_v6() can skip the IPv6 FIB lookup
and call bpf_out_neigh_v6() directly. bpf_out_neigh_v6() then calls
ip_neigh_gw6(), which uses ipv6_stub->nd_tbl.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000248
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:skb_do_redirect+0x44f/0xf40
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
? __tcf_classify.constprop.0+0x83/0x160
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
? tcf_classify+0x2b/0x50
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
? tc_run+0xb8/0x120
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
__dev_queue_xmit+0x6fa/0x1000
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
packet_sendmsg+0x10da/0x1700
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
__sys_sendto+0x1f3/0x220
__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x101/0xf80
? exc_page_fault+0x6e/0x170
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
Fix this by adding an early check in bpf_out_neigh_v6(). If IPv6 is
disabled, drop the packet before neighbor lookup.
Suggested-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Fixes: ba452c9e996d ("bpf: Fix bpf_redirect_neigh helper api to support supplying nexthop")
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière <rbm@suse.com>
---
net/core/filter.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index ff02dbe4c94f..3344fa0789f0 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -2228,6 +2228,9 @@ static int bpf_out_neigh_v6(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
return -ENOMEM;
}
+ if (unlikely(!ipv6_mod_enabled()))
+ goto out_drop;
+
rcu_read_lock();
if (!nh) {
dst = skb_dst(skb);
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-07 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-07 20:50 [PATCH net v4 0/4] {net,bpf}: nd_tbl fixes for when ipv6.disable=1 Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-07 20:50 ` [PATCH net v4 1/4] ipv6: move the disable_ipv6_mod knob to core code Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-07 20:50 ` [PATCH net v4 2/4] net: bonding: Fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-09 0:50 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-03-07 20:50 ` [PATCH net v4 3/4] bpf: bpf_out_neigh_v4: " Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-11 5:47 ` Daniel Borkmann
2026-03-07 20:50 ` Ricardo B. Marlière [this message]
2026-03-11 5:49 ` [PATCH net v4 4/4] bpf: bpf_out_neigh_v6: " Daniel Borkmann
2026-03-11 0:58 ` [PATCH net v4 0/4] {net,bpf}: nd_tbl fixes for when ipv6.disable=1 Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-11 5:50 ` Daniel Borkmann
2026-03-12 0:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-12 1:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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