[PATCH iwl-net v1] ice: fix UAF/NULL deref when VSI rebuild and XDP attach race

Kohei Enju
2026-04-18T09:01:40Z

ice_xdp_setup_prog() unconditionally hot-swaps xdp_prog when
ICE_VSI_REBUILD_PENDING is set. In the attach path, this can publish a
new rx_ring->xdp_prog before rx_ring->xdp_ring becomes valid while the
rebuild is pending. As a result, ice_clean_rx_irq() may dereference
rx_ring->xdp_ring too early.

With high-volume RX packets, running these commands in parallel
triggered a KASAN splat [1].
# ethtool --reset $DEV irq dma filter offload
# ip link set dev $DEV xdp {obj $OBJ sec xdp,off}

Fix this by rejecting XDP attach while rebuild is pending.
Keep XDP detach allowed in this window. Detach clears rx_ring->xdp_prog,
so the RX path will not attempt to access rx_ring->xdp_ring.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ice_napi_poll+0x3921/0x41a0
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88812475b880 by task ksoftirqd/1/23
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ice_napi_poll+0x3921/0x41a0
__napi_poll+0x98/0x520
net_rx_action+0x8f2/0xfa0
handle_softirqs+0x1cb/0x7f0
[...]
</TASK>

Allocated by task 7246:
ice_prepare_xdp_rings+0x3de/0x12d0
ice_xdp+0x61c/0xef0
dev_xdp_install+0x3c4/0x840
dev_xdp_attach+0x50a/0x10a0
dev_change_xdp_fd+0x175/0x210
[...]

Freed by task 7251:
__rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0x5f/0x230
rcu_free_sheaf+0x1a/0xf0
rcu_core+0x567/0x1d80
handle_softirqs+0x1cb/0x7f0

Fixes: 2504b8405768 ("ice: protect XDP configuration with a mutex")
Signed-off-by: Kohei Enju <kohei@enjuk.jp>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
index d1f628f1c8ac..4681cbe193f6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
@@ -2912,12 +2912,21 @@ ice_xdp_setup_prog(struct ice_vsi *vsi, struct bpf_prog *prog,
}

/* hot swap progs and avoid toggling link */
- if (ice_is_xdp_ena_vsi(vsi) == !!prog ||
- test_bit(ICE_VSI_REBUILD_PENDING, vsi->state)) {
+ if (ice_is_xdp_ena_vsi(vsi) == !!prog) {
ice_vsi_assign_bpf_prog(vsi, prog);
return 0;
}

+ if (test_bit(ICE_VSI_REBUILD_PENDING, vsi->state)) {
+ if (prog) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "VSI rebuild is pending");
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
+
+ ice_vsi_assign_bpf_prog(vsi, NULL);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if_running = netif_running(vsi->netdev) &&
!test_and_set_bit(ICE_VSI_DOWN, vsi->state);

--
2.51.0