[PATCH v2 net-next 01/14] rtnetlink: Lock sock_net(skb->sk) in rtnl_newlink().
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Date: 2026-07-03 00:10:12
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
There are a few cases where rtnl_net_lock() is not properly held in rtnl_newlink(). When either of IFLA_NET_NS_PID / IFLA_NET_NS_FD / IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID is specified but IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is not, sock_net(skb->sk) is used as link_net in rtnl_newlink_link_net(). In addition, the do_setlink() path uses sock_net(skb->sk) and one from the three netns attributes while rtnl_link_get_net_capable() returns only one of four. Let's add sock_net(skb->sk) to rtnl_nets in rtnl_newlink(). Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> --- No fixes tag is needed since there is no real bug nor assertion. --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 12aa3aa1688b..f39c93e80e20 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c@@ -282,10 +282,11 @@ static int rtnl_net_cmp_locks(const struct net *net_a, const struct net *net_b) #endif struct rtnl_nets { - /* ->newlink() needs to freeze 3 netns at most; - * 2 for the new device, 1 for its peer. + /* ->newlink() needs to freeze 4 netns at most; + * 2 for the new device, 1 for its peer, 1 for + * an existing device (do_setlink() path). */ - struct net *net[3]; + struct net *net[4]; unsigned char len; };
@@ -4155,6 +4156,8 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, } } + rtnl_nets_add(&rtnl_nets, get_net(sock_net(skb->sk))); + rtnl_nets_lock(&rtnl_nets); ret = __rtnl_newlink(skb, nlh, ops, tgt_net, link_net, peer_net, tbs, data, extack); rtnl_nets_unlock(&rtnl_nets);
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