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From: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Vladimir Vdovin <deliran@verdict.gg>,
	Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
	Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2 1/3] ipv4: stop PMTU walk when nexthop group shrinks
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 2026 13:50:58 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4fb87ed994dfc067178fc845cdd8bc9b5446b039.1790915964.git.4ncienth@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1790915964.git.4ncienth@gmail.com>

Commit 7d3f3b4367f3 ("net: ipv4: Cache pmtu for all packet paths if
multipath enabled") made __ip_rt_update_pmtu() update every path.

For nexthop objects, fib_info_num_path() and fib_info_nhc()
independently load nh->nh_grp.  RCU protects each group's lifetime but
does not make the loads observe the same group.  If replacement shrinks
the group after the loop accepts an index, fib_info_nhc() returns NULL
and update_or_create_fnhe() dereferences it.

A deterministic probe only widened the existing window between the real
operations.  On v7.2, an RTM_NEWNEXTHOP replacement published a
one-member group after the PMTU reader accepted index 1 from a two-member
group, producing:

  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
  RIP: update_or_create_fnhe+0x45/0x15b0

Stop when the indexed path is absent.  Groups are dense, so no later
index exists in that snapshot.  The same real-writer window completed
114,423 PMTU iterations without an oops with this check.  A reproducer
is available on request.

Replacement requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the network namespace.  Where
unprivileged user namespaces are permitted, a local user can obtain it
in a new user and network namespace.

Fixes: 7d3f3b4367f3 ("net: ipv4: Cache pmtu for all packet paths if multipath enabled")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
---
 net/ipv4/route.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 37674d76f90f0..5f2197874bebc 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -1082,6 +1082,8 @@ static void __ip_rt_update_pmtu(struct rtable *rt, struct flowi4 *fl4, u32 mtu)
 
 			for (nhsel = 0; nhsel < fib_info_num_path(res.fi); nhsel++) {
 				nhc = fib_info_nhc(res.fi, nhsel);
+				if (!nhc)
+					break;
 				update_or_create_fnhe(nhc, fl4->daddr, 0, mtu, lock,
 						      jiffies + net->ipv4.ip_rt_mtu_expires);
 			}
-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-02  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-02  4:50 [PATCH net v2 0/3] ipv4: handle nexthop group shrink races Daehyeon Ko
2026-10-02  4:50 ` Daehyeon Ko [this message]
2026-10-02  4:50 ` [PATCH net v2 2/3] ipv4: stop exception dump when nexthop group shrinks Daehyeon Ko
2026-10-02  4:51 ` [PATCH net v2 3/3] ipv4: stop route notification sizing " Daehyeon Ko

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