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* [PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: clear dev->ip_ptr before destroying inetdev
@ 2026-07-07  4:30 Yuyang Huang
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From: Yuyang Huang @ 2026-07-07  4:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yuyang Huang
  Cc: David S. Miller, David Ahern, Eric Dumazet, Ido Schimmel,
	Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, linux-kernel, netdev,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima

To prevent RCU readers from accessing a partially destroyed in_device,
clear dev->ip_ptr early in inetdev_destroy() before freeing the
multicast list and individual IP addresses. This aligns the IPv4 teardown
sequence with the IPv6 implementation.

Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <yuyanghuang@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/devinet.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index a35b72662e43..3b31f4bec30e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -322,6 +322,8 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev)
 
 	in_dev->dead = 1;
 
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip_ptr, NULL);
+
 	ip_mc_destroy_dev(in_dev);
 
 	while ((ifa = rtnl_dereference(in_dev->ifa_list)) != NULL) {
@@ -329,8 +331,6 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev)
 		inet_free_ifa(ifa);
 	}
 
-	RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip_ptr, NULL);
-
 	devinet_sysctl_unregister(in_dev);
 	neigh_parms_release(&arp_tbl, in_dev->arp_parms);
 	arp_ifdown(dev);
-- 
2.55.0.795.g602f6c329a-goog


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