This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ndisc: ndisc_send_redirect() must use dev_get_by_index_rcu()
to the 6.13-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:
ndisc-ndisc_send_redirect-must-use-dev_get_by_index_.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 13a452c065e37c3d152d7b7f0135373842643273
Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 7 13:58:33 2025 +0000
ndisc: ndisc_send_redirect() must use dev_get_by_index_rcu()
[ Upstream commit 48145a57d4bbe3496e8e4880b23ea6b511e6e519 ]
ndisc_send_redirect() is called under RCU protection, not RTNL.
It must use dev_get_by_index_rcu() instead of __dev_get_by_index()
Fixes: 2f17becfbea5 ("vrf: check the original netdevice for generating redirect")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250207135841.1948589-2-edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index d044c67019de6..264b10a947577 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -1694,7 +1694,7 @@ void ndisc_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct in6_addr *target)
bool ret;
if (netif_is_l3_master(skb->dev)) {
- dev = __dev_get_by_index(dev_net(skb->dev), IPCB(skb)->iif);
+ dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(dev_net(skb->dev), IPCB(skb)->iif);
if (!dev)
return;
}
