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From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
	brian.haley@hp.com, horms@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	kuba@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	idosch@nvidia.com, dsahern@kernel.org,
	Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH net v2 5/7] ipv6: reset value and position for proxy_ndp sysctl restart
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:18:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260620161850.7114-6-fmancera@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260620161850.7114-1-fmancera@suse.de>

When handling proxy_ndp, if rtnl_net_trylock() fails, the operation is
retried but as the value was already modified by the initial
proc_dointvec() call, the restarted syscall will read the newly modified
value as the 'old' state.

Fix this by taking the RTNL lock before parsing the input value if the
operation is a write.

Fixes: c92d5491a6d9 ("netconf: add support for IPv6 proxy_ndp")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 5d96cbf76134..82b6f603faa0 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -6482,20 +6482,19 @@ static int addrconf_sysctl_disable(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
 static int addrconf_sysctl_proxy_ndp(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
 		void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
 {
+	struct net *net = ctl->extra2;
 	int *valp = ctl->data;
-	int ret;
 	int old, new;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (write && !rtnl_net_trylock(net))
+		return restart_syscall();
 
 	old = *valp;
 	ret = proc_dointvec(ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 	new = *valp;
 
 	if (write && old != new) {
-		struct net *net = ctl->extra2;
-
-		if (!rtnl_net_trylock(net))
-			return restart_syscall();
-
 		if (valp == &net->ipv6.devconf_dflt->proxy_ndp) {
 			inet6_netconf_notify_devconf(net, RTM_NEWNETCONF,
 						     NETCONFA_PROXY_NEIGH,
@@ -6514,8 +6513,9 @@ static int addrconf_sysctl_proxy_ndp(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
 						     idev->dev->ifindex,
 						     &idev->cnf);
 		}
-		rtnl_net_unlock(net);
 	}
+	if (write)
+		rtnl_net_unlock(net);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-20 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-20 16:18 [PATCH net v2 0/7] ipv6: fix sysctl error handling and missing notifications Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-06-20 16:18 ` [PATCH net v2 1/7] ipv6: fix error handling in disable_ipv6 sysctl Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-06-20 16:18 ` [PATCH net v2 2/7] ipv6: fix error handling in ignore_routes_with_linkdown sysctl Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-06-20 16:18 ` [PATCH net v2 3/7] ipv6: fix error handling in forwarding sysctl Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-06-20 16:18 ` [PATCH net v2 4/7] ipv6: fix error handling in disable_policy sysctl Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-06-20 16:18 ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera [this message]
2026-06-20 16:18 ` [PATCH net v2 6/7] ipv6: fix missing notification for ignore_routes_with_linkdown Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-06-20 16:18 ` [PATCH net v2 7/7] ipv6: reset position for force_forwarding sysctl restart Fernando Fernandez Mancera

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