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[PATCH net v2 1/1] ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding

From: Zhiling Zou <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-06 15:19:12
Also in: bpf
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds

IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb->sk association installed by
bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under
RCU. IPv6 can also get such an association from udp_v6_early_demux(),
which runs in ip6_rcv_finish_core(), after ip6_rcv_core().

The reproduced UDPv6 packet has a multicast IP destination but a unicast
destination MAC address. It is therefore classified as PACKET_HOST and
passes the UDP early-demux check.

When the multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the
original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the
original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the
skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the
receive-side RCU section ends.

After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes
sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb->sk. Orphan the skb before
each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the
original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding
with a socket-free clone.

Fixes: cf7fbe660f2d ("bpf: Add socket assign support")
Fixes: 08842c43d016 ("udp: no longer touch sk->sk_refcnt in early demux")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <redacted>
---
changes in v2:
- Cover the IPv4 multicast forwarding path.
- Correct the IPv6 early-demux ordering and document the unicast-MAC
  PACKET_HOST condition used by the reproducer.
- Add the BPF socket-assignment and UDP early-demux Fixes tags.
- v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/02db4590d0161e31a789dcdfa8d1be1a3212ec2e.1785724784.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai/ (local)

 net/ipv4/ipmr.c      | 3 +++
 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
index 1d9a4ac14fcef..e5f2b1c6150d2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
@@ -2213,6 +2213,9 @@ int ip_mr_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (IPCB(skb)->flags & IPSKB_FORWARDED)
 		goto dont_forward;
 
+	if (!local)
+		skb_orphan(skb);
+
 	mrt = ipmr_rt_fib_lookup(net, skb);
 	if (IS_ERR(mrt)) {
 		kfree_skb(skb);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
index 8972863c93ee5..d332ec60f9150 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -622,6 +622,7 @@ int ip6_mc_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		if (deliver) {
 			skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		} else {
+			skb_orphan(skb);
 			skb2 = skb;
 			skb = NULL;
 		}
-- 
2.43.0
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