This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: mcast: fix data-race in ipv6_mc_down / mld_ifc_work to the 6.1-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: ipv6-mcast-fix-data-race-in-ipv6_mc_down-mld_ifc_wor.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bf6a916ae296ec5bec77fff52144e43c95594633 Author: Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 17 09:21:02 2024 -0800 ipv6: mcast: fix data-race in ipv6_mc_down / mld_ifc_work [ Upstream commit 2e7ef287f07c74985f1bf2858bedc62bd9ebf155 ] idev->mc_ifc_count can be written over without proper locking. Originally found by syzbot [1], fix this issue by encapsulating calls to mld_ifc_stop_work() (and mld_gq_stop_work() for good measure) with mutex_lock() and mutex_unlock() accordingly as these functions should only be called with mc_lock per their declarations. [1] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in ipv6_mc_down / mld_ifc_work write to 0xffff88813a80c832 of 1 bytes by task 3771 on cpu 0: mld_ifc_stop_work net/ipv6/mcast.c:1080 [inline] ipv6_mc_down+0x10a/0x280 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2725 addrconf_ifdown+0xe32/0xf10 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3949 addrconf_notify+0x310/0x980 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:93 [inline] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x6b/0x1c0 kernel/notifier.c:461 __dev_notify_flags+0x205/0x3d0 dev_change_flags+0xab/0xd0 net/core/dev.c:8685 do_setlink+0x9f6/0x2430 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2916 rtnl_group_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3458 [inline] __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3717 [inline] rtnl_newlink+0xbb3/0x1670 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3754 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x807/0x8c0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6558 netlink_rcv_skb+0x126/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2545 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6576 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1342 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x589/0x650 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1368 netlink_sendmsg+0x66e/0x770 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1910 ... write to 0xffff88813a80c832 of 1 bytes by task 22 on cpu 1: mld_ifc_work+0x54c/0x7b0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2653 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2627 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x5b8/0xa30 kernel/workqueue.c:2700 worker_thread+0x525/0x730 kernel/workqueue.c:2781 ... Fixes: 2d9a93b4902b ("mld: convert from timer to delayed work") Reported-by: syzbot+a9400cabb1d784e49abf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000994e09060ebcdffb@xxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240117172102.12001-1-n.zhandarovich@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c index 7860383295d8..566f3b7b957e 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c +++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c @@ -2725,8 +2725,12 @@ void ipv6_mc_down(struct inet6_dev *idev) synchronize_net(); mld_query_stop_work(idev); mld_report_stop_work(idev); + + mutex_lock(&idev->mc_lock); mld_ifc_stop_work(idev); mld_gq_stop_work(idev); + mutex_unlock(&idev->mc_lock); + mld_dad_stop_work(idev); }