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[PATCH net 2/3] bpf: bpf_out_neigh_v6: Fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled

From: Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-28 17:46:59
Also in: bpf, lkml
Subsystem: bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), bpf [networking] (tcx & tc bpf, sock_addr), networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Martin KaFai Lau, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

When booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, the nd_tbl is never
initialized because inet6_init() exits before ndisc_init() is called which
initializes it. If bpf_redirect_neigh() is called with explicit AF_INET6
nexthop parameters, __bpf_redirect_neigh_v6() can skip the IPv6 FIB lookup
and call bpf_out_neigh_v6() directly. bpf_out_neigh_v6() then calls
ip_neigh_gw6(), which uses ipv6_stub->nd_tbl.

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000248
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 RIP: 0010:skb_do_redirect+0x44f/0xf40
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
  ? __tcf_classify.constprop.0+0x83/0x160
  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
  ? tcf_classify+0x2b/0x50
  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
  ? tc_run+0xb8/0x120
  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x6fa/0x1000
  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
  packet_sendmsg+0x10da/0x1700
  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
  __sys_sendto+0x1f3/0x220
  __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
  do_syscall_64+0x101/0xf80
  ? exc_page_fault+0x6e/0x170
  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
  </TASK>

Fix this by adding an early check in bpf_out_neigh_v6(). If
ipv6_stub->nd_tbl is NULL, drop the packet before neighbor lookup.

Suggested-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <redacted>
Fixes: ba452c9e996d ("bpf: Fix bpf_redirect_neigh helper api to support supplying nexthop")
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière <redacted>
---
 net/core/filter.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index 9ab2fae3a0d9..ad87c40f1393 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -2228,6 +2228,9 @@ static int bpf_out_neigh_v6(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
+	if (!ipv6_stub->nd_tbl)
+		goto out_drop;
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (!nh) {
 		dst = skb_dst(skb);
-- 
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