4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit bf1dc8bad1d42287164d216d8efb51c5cd381b18 ] We need a RCU critical section around rt6_info->from deference, and proper annotation. Fixes: 4ed591c8ab44 ("net/ipv6: Allow onlink routes to have a device mismatch if it is the default route") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -2808,20 +2808,24 @@ static int ip6_route_check_nh_onlink(str u32 tbid = l3mdev_fib_table(dev) ? : RT_TABLE_MAIN; const struct in6_addr *gw_addr = &cfg->fc_gateway; u32 flags = RTF_LOCAL | RTF_ANYCAST | RTF_REJECT; + struct fib6_info *from; struct rt6_info *grt; int err; err = 0; grt = ip6_nh_lookup_table(net, cfg, gw_addr, tbid, 0); if (grt) { + rcu_read_lock(); + from = rcu_dereference(grt->from); if (!grt->dst.error && /* ignore match if it is the default route */ - grt->from && !ipv6_addr_any(&grt->from->fib6_dst.addr) && + from && !ipv6_addr_any(&from->fib6_dst.addr) && (grt->rt6i_flags & flags || dev != grt->dst.dev)) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Nexthop has invalid gateway or device mismatch"); err = -EINVAL; } + rcu_read_unlock(); ip6_rt_put(grt); }