From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0AC2033ADB5; Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:53:07 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767963187; cv=none; b=ty0dWxnyeH+FoedtXSIM0aK7ZI4dr+hQwvXDBrXw/vvONVwxh6kxy3JrPVTZI4S8DEflD/qJQ+q4TF1XsBLPnLqJzHeZ3LP7nYB/v8fpvhb3f/a6FlOaAKkMo80Ip0ZDvzf0FNUSi9D/ONCuZ3Nxhyf5pwm7eHkncSSwVidFO1Y= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767963187; c=relaxed/simple; bh=0Dug1m/TZFSlpZSkRDoeGCGGhL0bTGGHhco8AXHAHkY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=hTjaJmFy6TI+b1XMzccYLOs4ndfNUp3JSJGstZPgx/m+c4REWMtM7JbBdDrqWMXM8/ymN4/ggEcabVMivoE8kcU+P3xtmgGZ2qlE/Dv6fqBX0I931f+kpfgsc6tc60OnYiOsPLnW4xhV5ubL/CZg9hB7B8N6qsUn28ThWK75qPU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=HVihxpn5; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="HVihxpn5" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 850B8C4CEF1; Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:53:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1767963186; bh=0Dug1m/TZFSlpZSkRDoeGCGGhL0bTGGHhco8AXHAHkY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=HVihxpn5jkLWnn0zdKUZkWRryPHCMosDxBl7G3/xQCW50CaQfc8uG9YADJso/RQMc s4Ljqrsom4bY42W6wMu7i7sYWE8jUm21gsEjiEwk4plWiaitq+GA9sbvwIsn1so0qX 1AYmAznUPqpBgOVx9v740Kgf0Zpkblyk2JmfqSQI= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, syzkaller , yan kang , yue sun , Kuniyuki Iwashima , Stanislav Fomichev , Ido Schimmel , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Paolo Abeni , Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Subject: [PATCH 6.1 595/634] net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF. Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:44:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20260109112140.015758133@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260109112117.407257400@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260109112117.407257400@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo commit ed3ba9b6e280e14cc3148c1b226ba453f02fa76c upstream. SIOCBRDELIF is passed to dev_ioctl() first and later forwarded to br_ioctl_call(), which causes unnecessary RTNL dance and the splat below [0] under RTNL pressure. Let's say Thread A is trying to detach a device from a bridge and Thread B is trying to remove the bridge. In dev_ioctl(), Thread A bumps the bridge device's refcnt by netdev_hold() and releases RTNL because the following br_ioctl_call() also re-acquires RTNL. In the race window, Thread B could acquire RTNL and try to remove the bridge device. Then, rtnl_unlock() by Thread B will release RTNL and wait for netdev_put() by Thread A. Thread A, however, must hold RTNL after the unlock in dev_ifsioc(), which may take long under RTNL pressure, resulting in the splat by Thread B. Thread A (SIOCBRDELIF) Thread B (SIOCBRDELBR) ---------------------- ---------------------- sock_ioctl sock_ioctl `- sock_do_ioctl `- br_ioctl_call `- dev_ioctl `- br_ioctl_stub |- rtnl_lock | |- dev_ifsioc ' ' |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...) |- netdev_hold(dev, ...) . / |- rtnl_unlock ------. | | |- br_ioctl_call `---> |- rtnl_lock Race | | `- br_ioctl_stub |- br_del_bridge Window | | | |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...) | | | May take long | `- br_dev_delete(dev, ...) | | | under RTNL pressure | `- unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, ...) | | | | `- rtnl_unlock \ | |- rtnl_lock <-' `- netdev_run_todo | |- ... `- netdev_run_todo | `- rtnl_unlock |- __rtnl_unlock | |- netdev_wait_allrefs_any |- netdev_put(dev, ...) <----------------' Wait refcnt decrement and log splat below To avoid blocking SIOCBRDELBR unnecessarily, let's not call dev_ioctl() for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF. In the dev_ioctl() path, we do the following: 1. Copy struct ifreq by get_user_ifreq in sock_do_ioctl() 2. Check CAP_NET_ADMIN in dev_ioctl() 3. Call dev_load() in dev_ioctl() 4. Fetch the master dev from ifr.ifr_name in dev_ifsioc() 3. can be done by request_module() in br_ioctl_call(), so we move 1., 2., and 4. to br_ioctl_stub(). Note that 2. is also checked later in add_del_if(), but it's better performed before RTNL. SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF have been processed in dev_ioctl() since the pre-git era, and there seems to be no specific reason to process them there. [0]: unregister_netdevice: waiting for wpan3 to become free. Usage count = 2 ref_tracker: wpan3@ffff8880662d8608 has 1/1 users at __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4282 [inline] netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4311 [inline] dev_ifsioc+0xc6a/0x1160 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:624 dev_ioctl+0x255/0x10c0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:826 sock_do_ioctl+0x1ca/0x260 net/socket.c:1213 sock_ioctl+0x23a/0x6c0 net/socket.c:1318 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a4/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:892 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Fixes: 893b19587534 ("net: bridge: fix ioctl locking") Reported-by: syzkaller Reported-by: yan kang Reported-by: yue sun Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/SY8P300MB0421225D54EB92762AE8F0F2A1D32@SY8P300MB0421.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/ Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250316192851.19781-1-kuniyu@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni [cascardo: fixed conflict at dev_ifsioc] Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/if_bridge.h | 6 ++---- net/bridge/br_ioctl.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- net/bridge/br_private.h | 3 +-- net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 16 ---------------- net/socket.c | 19 +++++++++---------- 5 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/if_bridge.h +++ b/include/linux/if_bridge.h @@ -63,11 +63,9 @@ struct br_ip_list { #define BR_DEFAULT_AGEING_TIME (300 * HZ) struct net_bridge; -void brioctl_set(int (*hook)(struct net *net, struct net_bridge *br, - unsigned int cmd, struct ifreq *ifr, +void brioctl_set(int (*hook)(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *uarg)); -int br_ioctl_call(struct net *net, struct net_bridge *br, unsigned int cmd, - struct ifreq *ifr, void __user *uarg); +int br_ioctl_call(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *uarg); #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BRIDGE) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING) int br_multicast_list_adjacent(struct net_device *dev, --- a/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c @@ -394,10 +394,26 @@ static int old_deviceless(struct net *ne return -EOPNOTSUPP; } -int br_ioctl_stub(struct net *net, struct net_bridge *br, unsigned int cmd, - struct ifreq *ifr, void __user *uarg) +int br_ioctl_stub(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *uarg) { int ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; + struct ifreq ifr; + + if (cmd == SIOCBRADDIF || cmd == SIOCBRDELIF) { + void __user *data; + char *colon; + + if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + + if (get_user_ifreq(&ifr, &data, uarg)) + return -EFAULT; + + ifr.ifr_name[IFNAMSIZ - 1] = 0; + colon = strchr(ifr.ifr_name, ':'); + if (colon) + *colon = 0; + } rtnl_lock(); @@ -430,7 +446,21 @@ int br_ioctl_stub(struct net *net, struc break; case SIOCBRADDIF: case SIOCBRDELIF: - ret = add_del_if(br, ifr->ifr_ifindex, cmd == SIOCBRADDIF); + { + struct net_device *dev; + + dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr.ifr_name); + if (!dev || !netif_device_present(dev)) { + ret = -ENODEV; + break; + } + if (!netif_is_bridge_master(dev)) { + ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; + break; + } + + ret = add_del_if(netdev_priv(dev), ifr.ifr_ifindex, cmd == SIOCBRADDIF); + } break; } --- a/net/bridge/br_private.h +++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h @@ -895,8 +895,7 @@ br_port_get_check_rtnl(const struct net_ /* br_ioctl.c */ int br_dev_siocdevprivate(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, void __user *data, int cmd); -int br_ioctl_stub(struct net *net, struct net_bridge *br, unsigned int cmd, - struct ifreq *ifr, void __user *uarg); +int br_ioctl_stub(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *uarg); /* br_multicast.c */ #ifdef CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING --- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c +++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c @@ -315,7 +315,6 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, s int err; struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name); const struct net_device_ops *ops; - netdevice_tracker dev_tracker; if (!dev) return -ENODEV; @@ -378,19 +377,6 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, s case SIOCWANDEV: return dev_siocwandev(dev, &ifr->ifr_settings); - case SIOCBRADDIF: - case SIOCBRDELIF: - if (!netif_device_present(dev)) - return -ENODEV; - if (!netif_is_bridge_master(dev)) - return -EOPNOTSUPP; - netdev_hold(dev, &dev_tracker, GFP_KERNEL); - rtnl_unlock(); - err = br_ioctl_call(net, netdev_priv(dev), cmd, ifr, NULL); - netdev_put(dev, &dev_tracker); - rtnl_lock(); - return err; - case SIOCSHWTSTAMP: err = net_hwtstamp_validate(ifr); if (err) @@ -575,8 +561,6 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned case SIOCBONDRELEASE: case SIOCBONDSETHWADDR: case SIOCBONDCHANGEACTIVE: - case SIOCBRADDIF: - case SIOCBRDELIF: case SIOCSHWTSTAMP: if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1151,12 +1151,10 @@ static ssize_t sock_write_iter(struct ki */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(br_ioctl_mutex); -static int (*br_ioctl_hook)(struct net *net, struct net_bridge *br, - unsigned int cmd, struct ifreq *ifr, +static int (*br_ioctl_hook)(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *uarg); -void brioctl_set(int (*hook)(struct net *net, struct net_bridge *br, - unsigned int cmd, struct ifreq *ifr, +void brioctl_set(int (*hook)(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *uarg)) { mutex_lock(&br_ioctl_mutex); @@ -1165,8 +1163,7 @@ void brioctl_set(int (*hook)(struct net } EXPORT_SYMBOL(brioctl_set); -int br_ioctl_call(struct net *net, struct net_bridge *br, unsigned int cmd, - struct ifreq *ifr, void __user *uarg) +int br_ioctl_call(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *uarg) { int err = -ENOPKG; @@ -1175,7 +1172,7 @@ int br_ioctl_call(struct net *net, struc mutex_lock(&br_ioctl_mutex); if (br_ioctl_hook) - err = br_ioctl_hook(net, br, cmd, ifr, uarg); + err = br_ioctl_hook(net, cmd, uarg); mutex_unlock(&br_ioctl_mutex); return err; @@ -1272,7 +1269,9 @@ static long sock_ioctl(struct file *file case SIOCSIFBR: case SIOCBRADDBR: case SIOCBRDELBR: - err = br_ioctl_call(net, NULL, cmd, NULL, argp); + case SIOCBRADDIF: + case SIOCBRDELIF: + err = br_ioctl_call(net, cmd, argp); break; case SIOCGIFVLAN: case SIOCSIFVLAN: @@ -3376,6 +3375,8 @@ static int compat_sock_ioctl_trans(struc case SIOCGPGRP: case SIOCBRADDBR: case SIOCBRDELBR: + case SIOCBRADDIF: + case SIOCBRDELIF: case SIOCGIFVLAN: case SIOCSIFVLAN: case SIOCGSKNS: @@ -3415,8 +3416,6 @@ static int compat_sock_ioctl_trans(struc case SIOCGIFPFLAGS: case SIOCGIFTXQLEN: case SIOCSIFTXQLEN: - case SIOCBRADDIF: - case SIOCBRDELIF: case SIOCGIFNAME: case SIOCSIFNAME: case SIOCGMIIPHY: