From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 0/3] ipv4/ipv6: Fix UAF and memory leak in IGMP/MLD
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 19:43:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260704194346.4065071-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
This series addresses two potential UAF vulnerabilities
and one memory leak in the IPv4 IGMP and IPv6 MLD subsystems.
The first two patches fix a UAF where the packet receive path races with
device teardown. If the device refcount has already hit 0 (but the memory
is still held by RCU), incoming IGMP/MLD packets trying to schedule delayed
work or timers would call refcount_inc() on the 0 refcount, triggering a
warning and eventually leading to a UAF when the work runs after the device
has been freed. This is fixed by introducing safe hold helpers using
refcount_inc_not_zero().
The third patch fixes a memory leak in IPv4 IGMP timer modification. When
a timer is deleted and not re-armed, the code dropped the group refcount
using refcount_dec(). However, if the group was concurrently removed from
the list, this decrement could drop the refcount to 0 without triggering
the cleanup/free path, leaking the group structure. This is fixed by using
ip_ma_put() instead, and deferring the put until after the lock is released.
Eric Dumazet (3):
ipv4: igmp: Fix potential UAF in igmp_gq_start_timer()
ipv6: mcast: Fix potential UAF in MLD delayed work
ipv4: igmp: Fix potential memory leak in igmp_mod_timer()
include/linux/inetdevice.h | 5 +++++
include/net/addrconf.h | 5 +++++
net/ipv4/igmp.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------
net/ipv6/mcast.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
--
2.55.0.rc0.799.gd6f94ed593-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-04 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-04 19:43 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-07-04 19:43 ` [PATCH net 1/3] ipv4: igmp: Fix potential UAF in igmp_gq_start_timer() Eric Dumazet
2026-07-05 11:33 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-07-04 19:43 ` [PATCH net 2/3] ipv6: mcast: Fix potential UAF in MLD delayed work Eric Dumazet
2026-07-05 10:53 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-07-05 13:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-07-04 19:43 ` [PATCH net 3/3] ipv4: igmp: Fix potential memory leak in igmp_mod_timer() Eric Dumazet
2026-07-05 11:58 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-07-05 14:03 ` Eric Dumazet
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