diff mbox series

[net,v2] net: fix NULL pointer dereference in l3mdev_l3_rcv

Message ID 20250321090353.1170545-1-wangliang74@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
Headers show
Series [net,v2] net: fix NULL pointer dereference in l3mdev_l3_rcv | expand

Checks

Context Check Description
netdev/series_format success Single patches do not need cover letters
netdev/tree_selection success Clearly marked for net
netdev/ynl success Generated files up to date; no warnings/errors; no diff in generated;
netdev/fixes_present success Fixes tag present in non-next series
netdev/header_inline success No static functions without inline keyword in header files
netdev/build_32bit success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/build_tools success No tools touched, skip
netdev/cc_maintainers success CCed 10 of 10 maintainers
netdev/build_clang success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/verify_signedoff success Signed-off-by tag matches author and committer
netdev/deprecated_api success None detected
netdev/check_selftest success No net selftest shell script
netdev/verify_fixes success Fixes tag looks correct
netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/checkpatch success total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 5 lines checked
netdev/build_clang_rust success No Rust files in patch. Skipping build
netdev/kdoc success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/source_inline success Was 0 now: 0
netdev/contest warning net-next-2025-03-21--18-00 (tests: 896)

Commit Message

Wang Liang March 21, 2025, 9:03 a.m. UTC
When delete l3s ipvlan:

    ip link del link eth0 ipvlan1 type ipvlan mode l3s

This may cause a null pointer dereference:

    Call trace:
     ip_rcv_finish+0x48/0xd0
     ip_rcv+0x5c/0x100
     __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x64/0xb0
     __netif_receive_skb+0x20/0x80
     process_backlog+0xb4/0x204
     napi_poll+0xe8/0x294
     net_rx_action+0xd8/0x22c
     __do_softirq+0x12c/0x354

This is because l3mdev_l3_rcv() visit dev->l3mdev_ops after
ipvlan_l3s_unregister() assign the dev->l3mdev_ops to NULL. The process
like this:

    (CPU1)                     | (CPU2)
    l3mdev_l3_rcv()            |
      check dev->priv_flags:   |
        master = skb->dev;     |
                               |
                               | ipvlan_l3s_unregister()
                               |   set dev->priv_flags
                               |   dev->l3mdev_ops = NULL;
                               |
      visit master->l3mdev_ops |

To avoid this by do not set dev->l3mdev_ops when unregister l3s ipvlan.

Suggested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Fixes: c675e06a98a4 ("ipvlan: decouple l3s mode dependencies from other modes")
Signed-off-by: Wang Liang <wangliang74@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_l3s.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_l3s.c b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_l3s.c
index b4ef386bdb1b..7c017fe35522 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_l3s.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_l3s.c
@@ -226,5 +226,4 @@  void ipvlan_l3s_unregister(struct ipvl_port *port)
 
 	dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_L3MDEV_RX_HANDLER;
 	ipvlan_unregister_nf_hook(read_pnet(&port->pnet));
-	dev->l3mdev_ops = NULL;
 }