From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
"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>,
Omid Ehtemam-Haghighi <omid.ehtemamhaghighi@menlosecurity.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 2/2] ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_select_path()
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 13:31:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260527053133.180695-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260527053133.180695-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Found while auditing the same pattern Sashiko reported in
rt6_fill_node() [1]. Apply the same fix as
commit f8d8ce1b515a ("ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()").
Writers holding tb6_lock can list_del_rcu(&first->fib6_siblings)
without waiting for RCU readers; first->fib6_siblings.next then
still points into the old ring and this softirq-side walker never
reaches &first->fib6_siblings as its terminator. fib6_purge_rt()
always WRITE_ONCE()s first->fib6_nsiblings to 0 before
list_del_rcu(), so an inside-loop check is a reliable detach signal.
[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260526020227.4857-1-jiayuan.chen%40linux.dev
Fixes: d9ccb18f83ea ("ipv6: Fix soft lockups in fib6_select_path under high next hop churn")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index dad416fdc585..636f0120d7e3 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ void fib6_select_path(const struct net *net, struct fib6_result *res,
const struct fib6_nh *nh = sibling->fib6_nh;
int nh_upper_bound;
+ if (!READ_ONCE(first->fib6_nsiblings))
+ break;
+
nh_upper_bound = atomic_read(&nh->fib_nh_upper_bound);
if (hash > nh_upper_bound)
continue;
--
2.43.0
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2026-05-27 5:31 [PATCH net 1/2] ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in rt6_fill_node() Jiayuan Chen
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