linux.git/net/netfilter/ipvs, branch v6.12.80

ipvs: do not keep dest_dst if dev is going down

2026-03-04T12:20:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8fde939b0206afc1d5846217a01a16b9bc8c7896 ]

There is race between the netdev notifier ip_vs_dst_event()
and the code that caches dst with dev that is going down.
As the FIB can be notified for the closed device after our
handler finishes, it is possible valid route to be returned
and cached resuling in a leaked dev reference until the dest
is not removed.

To prevent new dest_dst to be attached to dest just after the
handler dropped the old one, add a netif_running() check
to make sure the notifier handler is not currently running
for device that is closing.

Fixes: 7a4f0761fce3 ("IPVS: init and cleanup restructuring")
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: fix ipv4 null-ptr-deref in route error path

2026-01-08T09:14:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit ad891bb3d079a46a821bf2b8867854645191bab0 ]

The IPv4 code path in __ip_vs_get_out_rt() calls dst_link_failure()
without ensuring skb->dev is set, leading to a NULL pointer dereference
in fib_compute_spec_dst() when ipv4_link_failure() attempts to send
ICMP destination unreachable messages.

The issue emerged after commit ed0de45a1008 ("ipv4: recompile ip options
in ipv4_link_failure") started calling __ip_options_compile() from
ipv4_link_failure(). This code path eventually calls fib_compute_spec_dst()
which dereferences skb->dev. An attempt was made to fix the NULL skb->dev
dereference in commit 0113d9c9d1cc ("ipv4: fix null-deref in
ipv4_link_failure"), but it only addressed the immediate dev_net(skb->dev)
dereference by using a fallback device. The fix was incomplete because
fib_compute_spec_dst() later in the call chain still accesses skb->dev
directly, which remains NULL when IPVS calls dst_link_failure().

The crash occurs when:
1. IPVS processes a packet in NAT mode with a misconfigured destination
2. Route lookup fails in __ip_vs_get_out_rt() before establishing a route
3. The error path calls dst_link_failure(skb) with skb->dev == NULL
4. ipv4_link_failure() → ipv4_send_dest_unreach() →
   __ip_options_compile() → fib_compute_spec_dst()
5. fib_compute_spec_dst() dereferences NULL skb->dev

Apply the same fix used for IPv6 in commit 326bf17ea5d4 ("ipvs: fix
ipv6 route unreach panic"): set skb->dev from skb_dst(skb)->dev before
calling dst_link_failure().

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000328-0x000000000000032f]
CPU: 1 PID: 12732 Comm: syz.1.3469 Not tainted 6.6.114 #2
RIP: 0010:__in_dev_get_rcu include/linux/inetdevice.h:233
RIP: 0010:fib_compute_spec_dst+0x17a/0x9f0 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:285
Call Trace:
  
  spec_dst_fill net/ipv4/ip_options.c:232
  spec_dst_fill net/ipv4/ip_options.c:229
  __ip_options_compile+0x13a1/0x17d0 net/ipv4/ip_options.c:330
  ipv4_send_dest_unreach net/ipv4/route.c:1252
  ipv4_link_failure+0x702/0xb80 net/ipv4/route.c:1265
  dst_link_failure include/net/dst.h:437
  __ip_vs_get_out_rt+0x15fd/0x19e0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:412
  ip_vs_nat_xmit+0x1d8/0xc80 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:764

Fixes: ed0de45a1008 ("ipv4: recompile ip options in ipv4_link_failure")
Signed-off-by: Slavin Liu 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup

2025-10-15T10:00:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 134121bfd99a06d44ef5ba15a9beb075297c0821 ]

On the netns cleanup path, __ip_vs_ftp_exit() may unregister ip_vs_ftp
before connections with valid cp->app pointers are flushed, leading to a
use-after-free.

Fix this by introducing a global `exiting_module` flag, set to true in
ip_vs_ftp_exit() before unregistering the pernet subsystem. In
__ip_vs_ftp_exit(), skip ip_vs_ftp unregister if called during netns
cleanup (when exiting_module is false) and defer it to
__ip_vs_cleanup_batch(), which unregisters all apps after all connections
are flushed. If called during module exit, unregister ip_vs_ftp
immediately.

Fixes: 61b1ab4583e2 ("IPVS: netns, add basic init per netns.")
Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Slavin Liu 
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE for ipvs->enable

2025-10-15T10:00:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit 944b6b216c0387ac3050cd8b773819ae360bfb1c ]

KCSAN reported a data-race on the `ipvs->enable` flag, which is
written in the control path and read concurrently from many other
contexts.

Following a suggestion by Julian, this patch fixes the race by
converting all accesses to use `WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE()`.
This lightweight approach ensures atomic access and acts as a
compiler barrier, preventing unsafe optimizations where the flag
is checked in loops (e.g., in ip_vs_est.c).

Additionally, the `enable` checks in the fast-path hooks
(`ip_vs_in_hook`, `ip_vs_out_hook`, `ip_vs_forward_icmp`) are
removed. These are unnecessary since commit 857ca89711de
("ipvs: register hooks only with services"). The `enable=0`
condition they check for can only occur in two rare and non-fatal
scenarios: 1) after hooks are registered but before the flag is set,
and 2) after hooks are unregistered on cleanup_net. In the worst
case, a single packet might be mishandled (e.g., dropped), which
does not lead to a system crash or data corruption. Adding a check
in the performance-critical fast-path to handle this harmless
condition is not a worthwhile trade-off.

Fixes: 857ca89711de ("ipvs: register hooks only with services")
Reported-by: syzbot+1651b5234028c294c339@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1651b5234028c294c339
Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lvs-devel/2189fc62-e51e-78c9-d1de-d35b8e3657e3@ssi.bg/
Signed-off-by: Zhang Tengfei 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: fix uninit-value for saddr in do_output_route4

2025-05-18T06:24:48+00:00

[ Upstream commit e34090d7214e0516eb8722aee295cb2507317c07 ]

syzbot reports for uninit-value for the saddr argument [1].
commit 4754957f04f5 ("ipvs: do not use random local source address for
tunnels") already implies that the input value of saddr
should be ignored but the code is still reading it which can prevent
to connect the route. Fix it by changing the argument to ret_saddr.

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in do_output_route4+0x42c/0x4d0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:147
 do_output_route4+0x42c/0x4d0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:147
 __ip_vs_get_out_rt+0x403/0x21d0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:330
 ip_vs_tunnel_xmit+0x205/0x2380 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:1136
 ip_vs_in_hook+0x1aa5/0x35b0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c:2063
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:154 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xf7/0x400 net/netfilter/core.c:626
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:269 [inline]
 __ip_local_out+0x758/0x7e0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:118
 ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:127 [inline]
 ip_send_skb+0x6a/0x3c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1501
 udp_send_skb+0xfda/0x1b70 net/ipv4/udp.c:1195
 udp_sendmsg+0x2fe3/0x33c0 net/ipv4/udp.c:1483
 inet_sendmsg+0x1fc/0x280 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x267/0x380 net/socket.c:727
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x91b/0xda0 net/socket.c:2566
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2620
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x41d/0x880 net/socket.c:2702
 __compat_sys_sendmmsg net/compat.c:360 [inline]
 __do_compat_sys_sendmmsg net/compat.c:367 [inline]
 __se_compat_sys_sendmmsg net/compat.c:364 [inline]
 __ia32_compat_sys_sendmmsg+0xc8/0x140 net/compat.c:364
 ia32_sys_call+0x3ffa/0x41f0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:346
 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]
 __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb0/0x110 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:306
 do_fast_syscall_32+0x38/0x80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:331
 do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:369
 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4167 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4210 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x8fa/0xe00 mm/slub.c:4367
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 ip_vs_dest_dst_alloc net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:61 [inline]
 __ip_vs_get_out_rt+0x35d/0x21d0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:323
 ip_vs_tunnel_xmit+0x205/0x2380 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:1136
 ip_vs_in_hook+0x1aa5/0x35b0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c:2063
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:154 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xf7/0x400 net/netfilter/core.c:626
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:269 [inline]
 __ip_local_out+0x758/0x7e0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:118
 ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:127 [inline]
 ip_send_skb+0x6a/0x3c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1501
 udp_send_skb+0xfda/0x1b70 net/ipv4/udp.c:1195
 udp_sendmsg+0x2fe3/0x33c0 net/ipv4/udp.c:1483
 inet_sendmsg+0x1fc/0x280 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x267/0x380 net/socket.c:727
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x91b/0xda0 net/socket.c:2566
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2620
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x41d/0x880 net/socket.c:2702
 __compat_sys_sendmmsg net/compat.c:360 [inline]
 __do_compat_sys_sendmmsg net/compat.c:367 [inline]
 __se_compat_sys_sendmmsg net/compat.c:364 [inline]
 __ia32_compat_sys_sendmmsg+0xc8/0x140 net/compat.c:364
 ia32_sys_call+0x3ffa/0x41f0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:346
 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]
 __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb0/0x110 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:306
 do_fast_syscall_32+0x38/0x80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:331
 do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:369
 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 22408 Comm: syz.4.5165 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc3-syzkaller-00019-gbc3372351d0c #0 PREEMPT(undef)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025

Reported-by: syzbot+04b9a82855c8aed20860@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68138dfa.050a0220.14dd7d.0017.GAE@google.com/
Fixes: 4754957f04f5 ("ipvs: do not use random local source address for tunnels")
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Acked-by: Simon Horman 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: prevent integer overflow in do_ip_vs_get_ctl()

2025-03-22T19:54:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit 80b78c39eb86e6b55f56363b709eb817527da5aa ]

The get->num_services variable is an unsigned int which is controlled by
the user.  The struct_size() function ensures that the size calculation
does not overflow an unsigned long, however, we are saving the result to
an int so the calculation can overflow.

Both "len" and "get->num_services" come from the user.  This check is
just a sanity check to help the user and ensure they are using the API
correctly.  An integer overflow here is not a big deal.  This has no
security impact.

Save the result from struct_size() type size_t to fix this integer
overflow bug.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: Fix clamp() of ip_vs_conn_tab on small memory systems

2024-12-27T13:02:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit cf2c97423a4f89c8b798294d3f34ecfe7e7035c3 ]

The 'max_avail' value is calculated from the system memory
size using order_base_2().
order_base_2(x) is defined as '(x) ? fn(x) : 0'.
The compiler generates two copies of the code that follows
and then expands clamp(max, min, PAGE_SHIFT - 12) (11 on 32bit).
This triggers a compile-time assert since min is 5.

In reality a system would have to have less than 512MB memory
for the bounds passed to clamp to be reversed.

Swap the order of the arguments to clamp() to avoid the warning.

Replace the clamp_val() on the line below with clamp().
clamp_val() is just 'an accident waiting to happen' and not needed here.

Detected by compile time checks added to clamp(), specifically:
minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp()

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+G9fYsT34UkGFKxus63H6UVpYi5GRZkezT9MRLfAbM3f6ke0g@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 4f325e26277b ("ipvs: dynamically limit the connection hash table")
Tested-by: Bartosz Golaszewski 
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski 
Signed-off-by: David Laight 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: fix UB due to uninitialized stack access in ip_vs_protocol_init()

2024-12-14T19:03:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit 146b6f1112eb30a19776d6c323c994e9d67790db ]

Under certain kernel configurations when building with Clang/LLVM, the
compiler does not generate a return or jump as the terminator
instruction for ip_vs_protocol_init(), triggering the following objtool
warning during build time:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: ip_vs_protocol_init() falls through to next function __initstub__kmod_ip_vs_rr__935_123_ip_vs_rr_init6()

At runtime, this either causes an oops when trying to load the ipvs
module or a boot-time panic if ipvs is built-in. This same issue has
been reported by the Intel kernel test robot previously.

Digging deeper into both LLVM and the kernel code reveals this to be a
undefined behavior problem. ip_vs_protocol_init() uses a on-stack buffer
of 64 chars to store the registered protocol names and leaves it
uninitialized after definition. The function calls strnlen() when
concatenating protocol names into the buffer. With CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE
strnlen() performs an extra step to check whether the last byte of the
input char buffer is a null character (commit 3009f891bb9f ("fortify:
Allow strlen() and strnlen() to pass compile-time known lengths")).
This, together with possibly other configurations, cause the following
IR to be generated:

  define hidden i32 @ip_vs_protocol_init() local_unnamed_addr #5 section ".init.text" align 16 !kcfi_type !29 {
    %1 = alloca [64 x i8], align 16
    ...

  14:                                               ; preds = %11
    %15 = getelementptr inbounds i8, ptr %1, i64 63
    %16 = load i8, ptr %15, align 1
    %17 = tail call i1 @llvm.is.constant.i8(i8 %16)
    %18 = icmp eq i8 %16, 0
    %19 = select i1 %17, i1 %18, i1 false
    br i1 %19, label %20, label %23

  20:                                               ; preds = %14
    %21 = call i64 @strlen(ptr noundef nonnull dereferenceable(1) %1) #23
    ...

  23:                                               ; preds = %14, %11, %20
    %24 = call i64 @strnlen(ptr noundef nonnull dereferenceable(1) %1, i64 noundef 64) #24
    ...
  }

The above code calculates the address of the last char in the buffer
(value %15) and then loads from it (value %16). Because the buffer is
never initialized, the LLVM GVN pass marks value %16 as undefined:

  %13 = getelementptr inbounds i8, ptr %1, i64 63
  br i1 undef, label %14, label %17

This gives later passes (SCCP, in particular) more DCE opportunities by
propagating the undef value further, and eventually removes everything
after the load on the uninitialized stack location:

  define hidden i32 @ip_vs_protocol_init() local_unnamed_addr #0 section ".init.text" align 16 !kcfi_type !11 {
    %1 = alloca [64 x i8], align 16
    ...

  12:                                               ; preds = %11
    %13 = getelementptr inbounds i8, ptr %1, i64 63
    unreachable
  }

In this way, the generated native code will just fall through to the
next function, as LLVM does not generate any code for the unreachable IR
instruction and leaves the function without a terminator.

Zero the on-stack buffer to avoid this possible UB.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202402100205.PWXIz1ZK-lkp@intel.com/
Co-developed-by: Ruowen Qin 
Signed-off-by: Ruowen Qin 
Signed-off-by: Jinghao Jia 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h

2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00

asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h

sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers

2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00

const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados 
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados