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 99DE2282F35; Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:21:49 +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=1774282909; cv=none; b=fe/UjLYN51lMGCP6GZYcHxdL7QqmwTfRv9g6eD04TQDKfGX9q/M1FYzE5rq3Cy7Ekpp4b0f/iPhw9tNhW6s5JUAVTH6WgIEv9QiNYqCIdfoK1qvvtkbYfeAafZGM+rvheHRN6ic1yBN9cZYfq4vy1YQwHeDeL6Qnt+iLImhBaCs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774282909; c=relaxed/simple; bh=L0Jm6wduFaczRQjIYdistB0U8zFZWuFZearJlnzQhX4=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=Nwfc1mUN9Vtj1QApOulBtx9cx9dkH3NKq5kTbG+BUu2fnsa/08hSEf7OmYQHIu56sNmFQ7GtNM2rlTBO0iAEdbTYWjdbZ42H50Avir6H3vR7mlL0zV5QOdw+R18rmpOLl+sFO5dDPsZERQJv4o0wXJOduS+W5jvB6MSj9U6L9rY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=x2bPFrqk; 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="x2bPFrqk" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 290DEC4CEF7; Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:21:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1774282909; bh=L0Jm6wduFaczRQjIYdistB0U8zFZWuFZearJlnzQhX4=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=x2bPFrqkf8jC5q8ykn3/SfIUJ5xArDCq0JSbCDx2y7ggfL2SKcFeRNIN9dPi5zA/l JfjFCRNbYZV/ejT/zjX7anMT0r/QCU3NgsUKjIvU/eLsFI4fuRKdolo5wfoSXUberq QRUzH+OjGf+CwLw7bhOXX4BlEvC/1xUj94XoPeZw= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Eric Dumazet , David Ahern , Jakub Kicinski , Keerthana K , Shivani Agarwal Subject: [PATCH 6.1 277/481] ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit() Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:44:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20260323134531.871590100@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260323134525.256603107@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260323134525.256603107@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: Eric Dumazet commit 9085e56501d93af9f2d7bd16f7fcfacdde47b99c upstream. Use RCU in ip6_xmit() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF. Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250828195823.3958522-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Keerthana K Signed-off-by: Shivani Agarwal --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -258,35 +258,36 @@ bool ip6_autoflowlabel(struct net *net, int ip6_xmit(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi6 *fl6, __u32 mark, struct ipv6_txoptions *opt, int tclass, u32 priority) { - struct net *net = sock_net(sk); const struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk); struct in6_addr *first_hop = &fl6->daddr; struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb); - struct net_device *dev = dst->dev; struct inet6_dev *idev = ip6_dst_idev(dst); struct hop_jumbo_hdr *hop_jumbo; int hoplen = sizeof(*hop_jumbo); + struct net *net = sock_net(sk); unsigned int head_room; + struct net_device *dev; struct ipv6hdr *hdr; u8 proto = fl6->flowi6_proto; int seg_len = skb->len; - int hlimit = -1; + int ret, hlimit = -1; u32 mtu; + rcu_read_lock(); + + dev = dst_dev_rcu(dst); head_room = sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + hoplen + LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev); if (opt) head_room += opt->opt_nflen + opt->opt_flen; if (unlikely(head_room > skb_headroom(skb))) { - /* Make sure idev stays alive */ - rcu_read_lock(); + /* idev stays alive while we hold rcu_read_lock(). */ skb = skb_expand_head(skb, head_room); if (!skb) { IP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTDISCARDS); - rcu_read_unlock(); - return -ENOBUFS; + ret = -ENOBUFS; + goto unlock; } - rcu_read_unlock(); } if (opt) { @@ -348,17 +349,21 @@ int ip6_xmit(const struct sock *sk, stru * skb to its handler for processing */ skb = l3mdev_ip6_out((struct sock *)sk, skb); - if (unlikely(!skb)) - return 0; + if (unlikely(!skb)) { + ret = 0; + goto unlock; + } /* hooks should never assume socket lock is held. * we promote our socket to non const */ - return NF_HOOK(NFPROTO_IPV6, NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT, - net, (struct sock *)sk, skb, NULL, dev, - dst_output); + ret = NF_HOOK(NFPROTO_IPV6, NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT, + net, (struct sock *)sk, skb, NULL, dev, + dst_output); + goto unlock; } + ret = -EMSGSIZE; skb->dev = dev; /* ipv6_local_error() does not require socket lock, * we promote our socket to non const @@ -367,7 +372,9 @@ int ip6_xmit(const struct sock *sk, stru IP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, IPSTATS_MIB_FRAGFAILS); kfree_skb(skb); - return -EMSGSIZE; +unlock: + rcu_read_unlock(); + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip6_xmit);