[PATCH net v2] rds: Fix inet6_addr_lst NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
From: Ilia Gavrilov <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-09 16:27:59
Also in:
linux-rdma, lkml
Subsystem:
networking [general], rds - reliable datagram sockets, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Allison Henderson, Linus Torvalds
When booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, inet6_addr_lst
is never initialized because inet6_init() exits before addrconf_init()
is called to initialize it. An attempt to bind an RDS socket to
an ipv6 address results in a crash in __ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags()
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
RIP: 0010:__ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags+0x1df/0x7e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ipv6_chk_addr+0x3b/0x50
rds_tcp_laddr_check+0x155/0x3b0 [rds_tcp]
rds_trans_get_preferred+0x15d/0x2d0 [rds]
? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2d/0x110
rds_bind+0x1433/0x1d60 [rds]
? rds_remove_bound+0xd50/0xd50 [rds]
? aa_af_perm+0x250/0x250
? __might_fault+0xde/0x190
? __sys_bind+0x1dc/0x210
__sys_bind+0x1dc/0x210
? __ia32_sys_socketpair+0x100/0x100
? restore_fpregs_from_fpstate+0x53/0x100
__x64_sys_bind+0x73/0xb0
? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50
do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
RIP: 0033:0x7f47f8269ea9
</TASK>
The following code reproduces the issue:
struct sockaddr_in6 addr;
s = socket(PF_RDS, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
inet_pton(AF_INET6, ADDRESS, &addr.sin6_addr);
addr.sin6_family = AF_INET6;
addr.sin6_port = htons(PORT);
bind(s, &addr, sizeof(addr));
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Fixes: eee2fa6ab322 ("rds: Changing IP address internal representation to struct in6_addr")
Fixes: 1e2b44e78eea ("rds: Enable RDS IPv6 support")
Signed-off-by: Ilia Gavrilov <redacted>
---
v2: Add a similar check for inbound link-local IPv6 connects
net/rds/ib.c | 4 ++++
net/rds/ib_cm.c | 4 ++++
net/rds/tcp.c | 8 +++++---
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/ib.c b/net/rds/ib.c
index 39f87272e071..8f9cf491984f 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib.c@@ -429,6 +429,10 @@ static int rds_ib_laddr_check_cm(struct net *net, const struct in6_addr *addr, sa = (struct sockaddr *)&sin; } else { #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) + if (!ipv6_mod_enabled()) { + ret = -EADDRNOTAVAIL; + goto out; + } memset(&sin6, 0, sizeof(sin6)); sin6.sin6_family = AF_INET6; sin6.sin6_addr = *addr;
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_cm.c b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
index 5667f0173b47..d46146887ba4 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_cm.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_cm.c@@ -810,6 +810,10 @@ int rds_ib_cm_handle_connect(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id, dp = event->param.conn.private_data; if (isv6) { #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) + if (!ipv6_mod_enabled()) { + err = -EOPNOTSUPP; + goto out; + } dp_cmn = &dp->ricp_v6.dp_cmn; saddr6 = &dp->ricp_v6.dp_saddr; daddr6 = &dp->ricp_v6.dp_daddr;
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
index a1de114d5e2e..955d92277d5a 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c@@ -366,9 +366,11 @@ int rds_tcp_laddr_check(struct net *net, const struct in6_addr *addr, rcu_read_unlock(); } #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) - ret = ipv6_chk_addr(net, addr, dev, 0); - if (ret) - return 0; + if (ipv6_mod_enabled()) { + ret = ipv6_chk_addr(net, addr, dev, 0); + if (ret) + return 0; + } #endif return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; }
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2.47.3