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<title>ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T15:22:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhiling Zou</name>
<email>zhilinz@nebusec.ai</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-12T16:36:38+00:00</published>
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commit e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10d upstream.

IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb-&gt;sk association installed by
bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under
RCU. Both address families can also prefetch a socket in UDP early demux.
In both paths (BPF and UDP early demux) a reference is not guaranteed to
be held on the socket.

When a multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the
original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the
original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the
skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the
receive-side RCU section ends.

After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes
sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb-&gt;sk. Orphan the skb before
each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the
original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding
with a socket-free clone.

Fixes: cf7fbe660f2d ("bpf: Add socket assign support")
Fixes: 08842c43d016 ("udp: no longer touch sk-&gt;sk_refcnt in early demux")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega &lt;vega@nebusec.ai&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou &lt;zhilinz@nebusec.ai&gt;
Reported-by: Vega &lt;vega@nebusec.ai&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou &lt;zhilinz@nebusec.ai&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0c52eb3d7532aaf8bccf37e0f7c922143c639735.1786552223.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10d upstream.

IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb-&gt;sk association installed by
bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under
RCU. Both address families can also prefetch a socket in UDP early demux.
In both paths (BPF and UDP early demux) a reference is not guaranteed to
be held on the socket.

When a multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the
original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the
original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the
skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the
receive-side RCU section ends.

After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes
sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb-&gt;sk. Orphan the skb before
each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the
original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding
with a socket-free clone.

Fixes: cf7fbe660f2d ("bpf: Add socket assign support")
Fixes: 08842c43d016 ("udp: no longer touch sk-&gt;sk_refcnt in early demux")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega &lt;vega@nebusec.ai&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou &lt;zhilinz@nebusec.ai&gt;
Reported-by: Vega &lt;vega@nebusec.ai&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou &lt;zhilinz@nebusec.ai&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0c52eb3d7532aaf8bccf37e0f7c922143c639735.1786552223.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY with forwarding</title>
<updated>2025-07-02T22:07:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-30T19:42:11+00:00</published>
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MSG_ZEROCOPY data must be copied before data is queued to local
sockets, to avoid indefinite timeout until memory release.

This test is performed by skb_orphan_frags_rx, which is called when
looping an egress skb to packet sockets, error queue or ingress path.

To preserve zerocopy for skbs that are looped to ingress but are then
forwarded to an egress device rather than delivered locally, defer
this last check until an skb enters the local IP receive path.

This is analogous to existing behavior of skb_clear_delivery_time.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630194312.1571410-2-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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MSG_ZEROCOPY data must be copied before data is queued to local
sockets, to avoid indefinite timeout until memory release.

This test is performed by skb_orphan_frags_rx, which is called when
looping an egress skb to packet sockets, error queue or ingress path.

To preserve zerocopy for skbs that are looped to ingress but are then
forwarded to an egress device rather than delivered locally, defer
this last check until an skb enters the local IP receive path.

This is analogous to existing behavior of skb_clear_delivery_time.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630194312.1571410-2-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: ip6_mc_input() and ip6_mr_input() cleanups</title>
<updated>2025-07-02T21:32:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-30T12:19:34+00:00</published>
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Both functions are always called under RCU.

We remove the extra rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().

We use skb_dst_dev_net_rcu() instead of skb_dst_dev_net().

We use dev_net_rcu() instead of dev_net().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-11-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Both functions are always called under RCU.

We remove the extra rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().

We use skb_dst_dev_net_rcu() instead of skb_dst_dev_net().

We use dev_net_rcu() instead of dev_net().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-11-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: adopt skb_dst_dev() and skb_dst_dev_net[_rcu]() helpers</title>
<updated>2025-07-02T21:32:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-30T12:19:33+00:00</published>
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Use the new helpers as a step to deal with potential dst-&gt;dev races.

v2: fix typo in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() (kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-10-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Use the new helpers as a step to deal with potential dst-&gt;dev races.

v2: fix typo in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() (kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-10-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: Use RCU in ip6_input()</title>
<updated>2025-02-07T00:14:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-05T15:51:20+00:00</published>
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Instead of grabbing rcu_read_lock() from ip6_input_finish(),
do it earlier in is caller, so that ip6_input() access
to dev_net() can be validated by LOCKDEP.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250205155120.1676781-13-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Instead of grabbing rcu_read_lock() from ip6_input_finish(),
do it earlier in is caller, so that ip6_input() access
to dev_net() can be validated by LOCKDEP.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250205155120.1676781-13-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/ipv6: make use of the helper macro LIST_HEAD()</title>
<updated>2024-09-07T01:10:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hongbo Li</name>
<email>lihongbo22@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-04T09:32:42+00:00</published>
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list_head can be initialized automatically with LIST_HEAD()
instead of calling INIT_LIST_HEAD(). Here we can simplify
the code.

Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li &lt;lihongbo22@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240904093243.3345012-5-lihongbo22@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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list_head can be initialized automatically with LIST_HEAD()
instead of calling INIT_LIST_HEAD(). Here we can simplify
the code.

Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li &lt;lihongbo22@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240904093243.3345012-5-lihongbo22@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6/addrconf: annotate data-races around devconf fields (II)</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T08:42:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-28T13:54:38+00:00</published>
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Final (?) round of this series.

Annotate lockless reads on following devconf fields,
because they be changed concurrently from /proc/net/ipv6/conf.

- accept_dad
- optimistic_dad
- use_optimistic
- use_oif_addrs_only
- ra_honor_pio_life
- keep_addr_on_down
- ndisc_notify
- ndisc_evict_nocarrier
- suppress_frag_ndisc
- addr_gen_mode
- seg6_enabled
- ioam6_enabled
- ioam6_id
- ioam6_id_wide
- drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast
- mldv[12]_unsolicited_report_interval
- force_mld_version
- force_tllao
- accept_untracked_na
- drop_unsolicited_na
- accept_source_route

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Final (?) round of this series.

Annotate lockless reads on following devconf fields,
because they be changed concurrently from /proc/net/ipv6/conf.

- accept_dad
- optimistic_dad
- use_optimistic
- use_oif_addrs_only
- ra_honor_pio_life
- keep_addr_on_down
- ndisc_notify
- ndisc_evict_nocarrier
- suppress_frag_ndisc
- addr_gen_mode
- seg6_enabled
- ioam6_enabled
- ioam6_id
- ioam6_id_wide
- drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast
- mldv[12]_unsolicited_report_interval
- force_mld_version
- force_tllao
- accept_untracked_na
- drop_unsolicited_na
- accept_source_route

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: annotate data-races around cnf.disable_ipv6</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T08:42:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-28T13:54:26+00:00</published>
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disable_ipv6 is read locklessly, add appropriate READ_ONCE()
and WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

v2: do not preload net before rtnl_trylock() in
    addrconf_disable_ipv6() (Jiri)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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disable_ipv6 is read locklessly, add appropriate READ_ONCE()
and WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

v2: do not preload net before rtnl_trylock() in
    addrconf_disable_ipv6() (Jiri)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: ignore dst hint for multipath routes</title>
<updated>2023-09-01T07:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sriram Yagnaraman</name>
<email>sriram.yagnaraman@est.tech</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T08:03:31+00:00</published>
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Route hints when the nexthop is part of a multipath group causes packets
in the same receive batch to be sent to the same nexthop irrespective of
the multipath hash of the packet. So, do not extract route hint for
packets whose destination is part of a multipath group.

A new SKB flag IP6SKB_MULTIPATH is introduced for this purpose, set the
flag when route is looked up in fib6_select_path() and use it in
ip6_can_use_hint() to check for the existence of the flag.

Fixes: 197dbf24e360 ("ipv6: introduce and uses route look hints for list input.")
Signed-off-by: Sriram Yagnaraman &lt;sriram.yagnaraman@est.tech&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Route hints when the nexthop is part of a multipath group causes packets
in the same receive batch to be sent to the same nexthop irrespective of
the multipath hash of the packet. So, do not extract route hint for
packets whose destination is part of a multipath group.

A new SKB flag IP6SKB_MULTIPATH is introduced for this purpose, set the
flag when route is looked up in fib6_select_path() and use it in
ip6_can_use_hint() to check for the existence of the flag.

Fixes: 197dbf24e360 ("ipv6: introduce and uses route look hints for list input.")
Signed-off-by: Sriram Yagnaraman &lt;sriram.yagnaraman@est.tech&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: keep conntrack reference until IPsecv6 policy checks are done</title>
<updated>2023-03-22T20:50:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhu Koriginja</name>
<email>madhu.koriginja@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-21T15:58:44+00:00</published>
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Keep the conntrack reference until policy checks have been performed for
IPsec V6 NAT support, just like ipv4.

The reference needs to be dropped before a packet is
queued to avoid having the conntrack module unloadable.

Fixes: 58a317f1061c ("netfilter: ipv6: add IPv6 NAT support")
Signed-off-by: Madhu Koriginja &lt;madhu.koriginja@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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Keep the conntrack reference until policy checks have been performed for
IPsec V6 NAT support, just like ipv4.

The reference needs to be dropped before a packet is
queued to avoid having the conntrack module unloadable.

Fixes: 58a317f1061c ("netfilter: ipv6: add IPv6 NAT support")
Signed-off-by: Madhu Koriginja &lt;madhu.koriginja@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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