This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: mld: fix reference count leak in mld_{query | report}_work() to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mld-fix-reference-count-leak-in-mld_-query-repor.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 832b41ea646d7b3cbb1120ae329394a2803c0a37 Author: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jul 22 17:06:35 2022 +0000 net: mld: fix reference count leak in mld_{query | report}_work() [ Upstream commit 3e7d18b9dca388940a19cae30bfc1f76dccd8c28 ] mld_{query | report}_work() processes queued events. If there are too many events in the queue, it re-queue a work. And then, it returns without in6_dev_put(). But if queuing is failed, it should call in6_dev_put(), but it doesn't. So, a reference count leak would occur. THREAD0 THREAD1 mld_report_work() spin_lock_bh() if (!mod_delayed_work()) in6_dev_hold(); spin_unlock_bh() spin_lock_bh() schedule_delayed_work() spin_unlock_bh() Script to reproduce(by Hangbin Liu): ip netns add ns1 ip netns add ns2 ip netns exec ns1 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.force_mld_version=1 ip netns exec ns2 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.force_mld_version=1 ip -n ns1 link add veth0 type veth peer name veth0 netns ns2 ip -n ns1 link set veth0 up ip -n ns2 link set veth0 up for i in `seq 50`; do for j in `seq 100`; do ip -n ns1 addr add 2021:${i}::${j}/64 dev veth0 ip -n ns2 addr add 2022:${i}::${j}/64 dev veth0 done done modprobe -r veth ip -a netns del splat looks like: unregister_netdevice: waiting for veth0 to become free. Usage count = 2 leaked reference. ipv6_add_dev+0x324/0xec0 addrconf_notify+0x481/0xd10 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe3/0x120 call_netdevice_notifiers+0x106/0x160 register_netdevice+0x114c/0x16b0 veth_newlink+0x48b/0xa50 [veth] rtnl_newlink+0x11a2/0x1a40 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x63f/0xc00 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1df/0x3e0 netlink_unicast+0x5de/0x850 netlink_sendmsg+0x6c9/0xa90 ____sys_sendmsg+0x76a/0x780 __sys_sendmsg+0x27c/0x340 do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Tested-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: f185de28d9ae ("mld: add new workqueues for process mld events") Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c index 7f695c39d9a8..87c699d57b36 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c +++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c @@ -1522,7 +1522,6 @@ static void mld_query_work(struct work_struct *work) if (++cnt >= MLD_MAX_QUEUE) { rework = true; - schedule_delayed_work(&idev->mc_query_work, 0); break; } } @@ -1533,8 +1532,10 @@ static void mld_query_work(struct work_struct *work) __mld_query_work(skb); mutex_unlock(&idev->mc_lock); - if (!rework) - in6_dev_put(idev); + if (rework && queue_delayed_work(mld_wq, &idev->mc_query_work, 0)) + return; + + in6_dev_put(idev); } /* called with rcu_read_lock() */ @@ -1624,7 +1625,6 @@ static void mld_report_work(struct work_struct *work) if (++cnt >= MLD_MAX_QUEUE) { rework = true; - schedule_delayed_work(&idev->mc_report_work, 0); break; } } @@ -1635,8 +1635,10 @@ static void mld_report_work(struct work_struct *work) __mld_report_work(skb); mutex_unlock(&idev->mc_lock); - if (!rework) - in6_dev_put(idev); + if (rework && queue_delayed_work(mld_wq, &idev->mc_report_work, 0)) + return; + + in6_dev_put(idev); } static bool is_in(struct ifmcaddr6 *pmc, struct ip6_sf_list *psf, int type,