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From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
	Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: team: fix NULL pointer dereference in team_xmit during mode change
Date: Wed,  6 May 2026 03:11:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260506101107.1174136-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)

__team_change_mode() clears team->ops with memset() before restoring
safe dummy handlers via team_adjust_ops(). A concurrent team_xmit()
running under RCU on another CPU can read team->ops.transmit during
this window and call a NULL function pointer, crashing the kernel.

The race requires CAP_NET_ADMIN (in init_user_ns) to trigger via
TEAM_CMD_OPTIONS_SET, plus AF_PACKET sendto() on a team device with
forced carrier and no ports.

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 RIP: 0010:0x0
 Call Trace:
  team_xmit (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1853)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3904)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4871)
  packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3109)
  __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2265)

Fix this by reading team->ops.transmit with READ_ONCE() into a local
variable and falling back to team_dummy_transmit if NULL. This matches
what team_adjust_ops() would have installed moments later.

Fixes: 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce ethernet teaming device")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/team/team_core.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/team/team_core.c b/drivers/net/team/team_core.c
index 0c87f9972457..3ff08b5deccd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/team/team_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/team/team_core.c
@@ -1844,8 +1844,14 @@ static netdev_tx_t team_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	unsigned int len = skb->len;
 
 	tx_success = team_queue_override_transmit(team, skb);
-	if (!tx_success)
-		tx_success = team->ops.transmit(team, skb);
+	if (!tx_success) {
+		bool (*transmit)(struct team *team, struct sk_buff *skb);
+
+		transmit = READ_ONCE(team->ops.transmit);
+		if (unlikely(!transmit))
+			transmit = team_dummy_transmit;
+		tx_success = transmit(team, skb);
+	}
 	if (tx_success) {
 		struct team_pcpu_stats *pcpu_stats;
 
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-06 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-06 10:11 Weiming Shi [this message]
2026-05-09  1:13 ` [PATCH net] net: team: fix NULL pointer dereference in team_xmit during mode change Jakub Kicinski

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