From: Junwei Hu <hujunwei4@xxxxxxxxxx> When Tcp send RST packet in ipvs, crash occurs with the following stack trace: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 PID: 0 COMMAND: "swapper/2" TASK: ffff9ec83889bf40 (1 of 4) [THREAD_INFO: ffff9ec8388b0000] CPU: 2 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC) [exception RIP: __ip_vs_get_out_rt_v6+1250] RIP: ffffffffc0d566f2 RSP: ffff9ec83ed03c68 RFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9ec835e85000 RCX: 000000000005e1f9 RDX: 000000000005e1f8 RSI: 0000000000000200 RDI: ffff9ec83e801b00 RBP: ffff9ec83ed03cd8 R8: 000000000001bb40 R9: ffffffffc0d5673f R10: ffff9ec83ed1bb40 R11: ffffe2d384d4fdc0 R12: ffff9ec7b7ad5900 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000007 R15: ffff9ec8353f7580 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 [ffff9ec83ed03ce0] ip_vs_fnat_xmit_v6 at ffffffffc0d5b42c [ip_vs] [ffff9ec83ed03d70] tcp_send_rst_ipv6 at ffffffffc0d6542a [ip_vs] [ffff9ec83ed03df8] tcp_conn_expire_handler at ffffffffc0d65823 [ip_vs] [ffff9ec83ed03e20] ip_vs_conn_expire at ffffffffc0d42373 [ip_vs] [ffff9ec83ed03e70] call_timer_fn at ffffffffae0a6b58 [ffff9ec83ed03ea8] run_timer_softirq at ffffffffae0a904d [ffff9ec83ed03f20] __do_softirq at ffffffffae09fa85 [ffff9ec83ed03f90] call_softirq at ffffffffae739dac [ffff9ec83ed03fa8] do_softirq at ffffffffae02e62b [ffff9ec83ed03fc0] irq_exit at ffffffffae09fe25 [ffff9ec83ed03fd8] smp_apic_timer_interrupt at ffffffffae73b158 [ffff9ec83ed03ff0] apic_timer_interrupt at ffffffffae737872 TCP connection timeout and send a RST packet, the skb is alloc by alloc_skb, the pointer skb->dev and skb_dst(skb) is NULL, however, ipv6 route unreach at that time, so go into err_unreach. In err_unreach, crash occurs when skb->dev and skb_dst(skb) is NULL. The code is added by the following patch: commit 326bf17ea5d4 ("ipvs: fix ipv6 route unreach panic") because the ip6_link_failure function requires the skb->dev in icmp6_send with that version. This patch only fix the problem in specific scene, and icmp6_send in current version is robust against null skb->dev by adding the following patch. commit 8d9336704521 ("ipv6: make icmp6_send() robust against null skb->dev") So I delete the code, make __ip_vs_get_out_rt_v6() robust, when skb->dev and skb_dst(skb) is NULL. Fixes: 326bf17ea5d4 ("ipvs: fix ipv6 route unreach panic") Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu <hujunwei4@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Wenhao Zhang <zhangwenhao8@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c index 175349fcf91f..e2bb6c223396 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c @@ -561,13 +561,6 @@ __ip_vs_get_out_rt_v6(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, int skb_af, struct sk_buff *skb, return -1; err_unreach: - /* The ip6_link_failure function requires the dev field to be set - * in order to get the net (further for the sake of fwmark - * reflection). - */ - if (!skb->dev) - skb->dev = skb_dst(skb)->dev; - dst_link_failure(skb); return -1; } -- 2.21.GIT