From: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, 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>,
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>, Liang Li <liali@redhat.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net] bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:49:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <450035.1771102199@famine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260214091541.89659-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> wrote:
>The ALB RX path may access rx_hashtbl concurrently with bond
>teardown. During rapid bond up/down cycles, rlb_deinitialize()
>frees rx_hashtbl while RX handlers are still running, leading
>to a use-after-free detected by KASAN.
>
>[ 214.174138] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000001d: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
>[ 214.186478] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000e8-0x00000000000000ef]
>[ 214.194933] CPU: 30 UID: 0 PID: 2375 Comm: ping Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-rc8+ #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
>[ 214.205907] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0WCJNT, BIOS 2.14.0 01/14/2022
>[ 214.214357] RIP: 0010:rlb_arp_recv+0x505/0xab0 [bonding]
>[ 214.220320] Code: 0f 85 2b 05 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 40 0f b6 ed 48 c1 e5 06 49 03 ad 78 01 00 00 48 8d 7d 28 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6
> 04 02 84 c0 74 06 0f 8e 12 05 00 00 80 7d 28 00 0f 84 8c 00
>[ 214.241280] RSP: 0018:ffffc900073d8870 EFLAGS: 00010206
>[ 214.247116] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888168556822 RCX: ffff88816855681e
>[ 214.255082] RDX: 000000000000001d RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: 00000000000000e8
>[ 214.263048] RBP: 00000000000000c0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffffed11192021c8
>[ 214.271013] R10: ffff8888c9010e43 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 1ffff92000e7b119
>[ 214.278978] R13: ffff8888c9010e00 R14: ffff888168556822 R15: ffff888168556810
>[ 214.286943] FS: 00007f85d2d9cb80(0000) GS:ffff88886ccb3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>[ 214.295966] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>[ 214.302380] CR2: 00007f0d047b5e34 CR3: 00000008a1c2e002 CR4: 00000000001726f0
>[ 214.310347] Call Trace:
>[ 214.313070] <IRQ>
>[ 214.315318] ? __pfx_rlb_arp_recv+0x10/0x10 [bonding] [ 214.320975] bond_handle_frame+0x166/0xb60 [bonding]
>[ 214.326537] ? __pfx_bond_handle_frame+0x10/0x10 [bonding]
>[ 214.332680] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x576/0x2710
>[ 214.339199] ? __pfx_arp_process+0x10/0x10
>[ 214.343775] ? sched_balance_find_src_group+0x98/0x630
>[ 214.349513] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
>[ 214.356513] ? arp_rcv+0x307/0x690
>[ 214.360311] ? __pfx_arp_rcv+0x10/0x10
>[ 214.364499] ? __lock_acquire+0x58c/0xbd0
>[ 214.368975] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xae/0x1b0
>[ 214.374518] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x10/0x10
>[ 214.380743] ? lock_acquire+0x10b/0x140
>[ 214.385026] process_backlog+0x3f1/0x13a0
>[ 214.389502] ? process_backlog+0x3aa/0x13a0
>[ 214.394174] __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x9f/0x370
>[ 214.399233] net_rx_action+0x8c1/0xe60
>[ 214.403423] ? __pfx_net_rx_action+0x10/0x10
>[ 214.408193] ? lock_acquire.part.0+0xbd/0x260
>[ 214.413058] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x6c/0x540
>[ 214.417540] ? mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70
>[ 214.421920] handle_softirqs+0x1fd/0x860
>[ 214.426302] ? __pfx_handle_softirqs+0x10/0x10
>[ 214.431264] ? __neigh_event_send+0x2d6/0xf50
>[ 214.436131] do_softirq+0xb1/0xf0
>[ 214.439830] </IRQ>
>
>The issue is reproducible by looping ip link set bond0 up/down,
>where rlb_arp_recv() can race with rlb_deinitialize() and dereference
>a freed rx_hashtbl entry.
>
>Fix this by setting recv_probe to NULL, and then calling synchronize_net()
>to wait for any concurrent RX processing to finish. This ensures that no
>RX handler can access rx_hashtbl after it is freed in
>bond_alb_deinitialize().
This is much clearer, thanks.
>Reported-by: Liang Li <liali@redhat.com>
>Fixes: e53665c6eaa6 ("bonding: delete migrated IP addresses from the rlb hash table")
>Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
>Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
>---
>
>v2: make the description more clear (Suggested by Jay)
>
>---
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>index 47f13d86cb7e..8e1057a2a061 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>@@ -4314,9 +4314,13 @@ static int bond_close(struct net_device *bond_dev)
>
> bond_work_cancel_all(bond);
> bond->send_peer_notif = 0;
>+ bond->recv_probe = NULL;
>+
>+ /* Wait for any in-flight RX handlers */
>+ synchronize_net();
>+
> if (bond_is_lb(bond))
> bond_alb_deinitialize(bond);
>- bond->recv_probe = NULL;
>
> if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_8023AD &&
> bond->params.broadcast_neighbor)
>--
>2.50.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-14 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-14 9:15 [PATCHv2 net] bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down Hangbin Liu
2026-02-14 20:49 ` Jay Vosburgh [this message]
2026-02-18 0:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-18 0:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-18 4:36 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-02-19 0:11 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-19 13:34 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-02-19 13:39 ` Hangbin Liu
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