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[PATCH net v3] net: bridge: mcast: properly convert mglist to rcu

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Date: 2026-09-03 09:40:05
Also in: bridge
Subsystem: ethernet bridge, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Nikolay Aleksandrov, Ido Schimmel, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Sashiko reported a bug [1] that br_multicast_del_port_group unlists the
port group not using proper rcu helper that preserves the next pointer and
after that immediately frees the port group without waiting for rcu grace
period. The only rcu walker of mglist is br_multicast_list_adjacent() and
it turns out that function has always been buggy because mglist was never
properly converted to RCU. Fix it by converting it to rcu and moving its
initialization after eth_addr's. Initializing p->next can use
RCU_INIT_POINTER because we have a barrier from the hlist_add_head_rcu call
later, besides we're initializing an unpublished structure anyway.

[1] https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/20260826014200.362304-1-littleddfu%40gmail.com

Fixes: 07f8ac4a1e26 ("bridge: add export of multicast database adjacent to net_dev")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
---
v3: a new patch, it converts mglist to rcu and moves the publishing after
    all struct initializations
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260901074046.316190-1-razor@blackwall.org/T/#m62e08b85f208b1c438e2fda2d5d8eaacf0e96c6f (local)
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260828100642.2664347-1-razor@blackwall.org/ (local)

 net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index 3e9b10f8abf1..2f9bb30e1a1f 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -1441,16 +1441,17 @@ struct net_bridge_port_group *br_multicast_new_port_group(
 		goto free_out;
 	}
 
-	rcu_assign_pointer(p->next, next);
 	timer_setup(&p->timer, br_multicast_port_group_expired, 0);
 	timer_setup(&p->rexmit_timer, br_multicast_port_group_rexmit, 0);
-	hlist_add_head(&p->mglist, &port->mglist);
 
 	if (src)
 		memcpy(p->eth_addr, src, ETH_ALEN);
 	else
 		eth_broadcast_addr(p->eth_addr);
 
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(p->next, next);
+	hlist_add_head_rcu(&p->mglist, &port->mglist);
+
 	return p;
 
 free_out:
@@ -1465,11 +1466,11 @@ void br_multicast_del_port_group(struct net_bridge_port_group *p)
 	struct net_bridge_port *port = p->key.port;
 	__u16 vid = p->key.addr.vid;
 
-	hlist_del_init(&p->mglist);
+	hlist_del_init_rcu(&p->mglist);
 	if (!br_multicast_is_star_g(&p->key.addr))
 		rhashtable_remove_fast(&port->br->sg_port_tbl, &p->rhnode,
 				       br_sg_port_rht_params);
-	kfree(p);
+	kfree_rcu(p, rcu);
 	br_multicast_port_ngroups_dec(port, vid);
 }
 
-- 
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