From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nft_fib_ipv6: bail out of sibling walk if rt got unlinked
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 16:17:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahWrbTAdNIjo02D-@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260526020227.4857-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> wrote:
> This was reported by Sashiko [1].
>
> The RCU walk over rt->fib6_siblings can spin forever if rt is unlinked
> mid-iteration: rt->fib6_siblings.next still points into the old ring,
> so the loop never meets &rt->fib6_siblings as its terminator.
>
> fib6_purge_rt() always does WRITE_ONCE(rt->fib6_nsiblings, 0) before
> list_del_rcu(), so readers can use rt->fib6_nsiblings == 0 as the
> detach signal. The same pattern is used in fib6_info_uses_dev() and
> rt6_nlmsg_size().
>
> [1]: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260520023411.391233-1-jiayuan.chen%40linux.dev
> Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> Fixes: 1c32b24c234b ("netfilter: nft_fib_ipv6: switch to fib6_lookup")
> Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
> ---
> net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c
> index c0a0075e2590..2dbe44715df3 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c
> @@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ static bool nft_fib6_info_nh_uses_dev(struct fib6_info *rt,
>
> if (nft_fib6_info_nh_dev_match(nh_dev, dev))
> return true;
> +
> + if (!READ_ONCE(rt->fib6_nsiblings))
> + return false;
> }
This time sashiko points to same bug pattern in rt6_fill_node:
This is a pre-existing issue, but does rt6_fill_node() also need this
detach check to prevent the same infinite loop?
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260526020227.4857-1-jiayuan.chen%40linux.dev
(No need to resend this patch, but maybe you have cycles to fix the
other spot too)
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2026-05-26 2:02 [PATCH nf] netfilter: nft_fib_ipv6: bail out of sibling walk if rt got unlinked Jiayuan Chen
2026-05-26 14:17 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-05-27 5:18 ` Jiayuan Chen
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