[PATCH v1 net] ipv6: Fix dst leak for uncached routes.
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Date: 2026-09-18 04:14:46
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
ip6_route_output_flags(), ip6_rt_put_flags(), and ip6_dst_check()
detect an uncached route by list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached),
which replaced the static DST_NOCACHE flag check in commit
a4c2fd7f7891 ("net: remove DST_NOCACHE flag").
When a device is unregistered, rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev()
unlinks uncached routes tied to the device from rt6_uncached_list.
Previously, they were moved to another list with list_move()
(__list_del_entry() + list_add()), and since commit 98aa546af5e4
("inet: remove (struct uncached_list)->quarantine"), the routes
are just unlinked with list_del_init().
If list_del_init() runs concurrently, list_empty() evaluates to
true; ip6_route_output_flags() calls dst_hold_safe() incorrectly
and ip6_rt_put_flags() skips ip6_rt_put(), leaking dst, and thus
dev tied via rt->from as well.
The same race is partially fixed by commit 9a6f0c4d5796 ("dst:
fix races in rt6_uncached_list_del() and rt_del_uncached_list()").
Let's check rt6->dst.rt_uncached_list instead.
Note that IPv4 does not have the same issue.
Fixes: 7d9e5f422150 ("ipv6: convert major tx path to use RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF")
Fixes: d64a1f574a29 ("ipv6: honor RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF in rule lookup logic")
Fixes: a4c2fd7f7891 ("net: remove DST_NOCACHE flag")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
include/net/ip6_route.h | 2 +-
net/ipv6/route.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/ip6_route.h b/include/net/ip6_route.h
index b9e8d2b759e9..2c5ded121f54 100644
--- a/include/net/ip6_route.h
+++ b/include/net/ip6_route.h@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static inline struct dst_entry *ip6_route_output(struct net *net, static inline void ip6_rt_put_flags(struct rt6_info *rt, int flags) { if (!(flags & RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF) || - !list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached)) + rt->dst.rt_uncached_list) ip6_rt_put(rt); }
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 08bd68f1b5bb..b18cd0d9148c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c@@ -2722,7 +2722,7 @@ struct dst_entry *ip6_route_output_flags(struct net *net, dst = ip6_route_output_flags_noref(net, sk, fl6, flags); rt6 = dst_rt6_info(dst); /* For dst cached in uncached_list, refcnt is already taken. */ - if (list_empty(&rt6->dst.rt_uncached) && !dst_hold_safe(dst)) { + if (!rt6->dst.rt_uncached_list && !dst_hold_safe(dst)) { dst = &net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry->dst; dst_hold(dst); }
@@ -2831,7 +2831,7 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE struct dst_entry *ip6_dst_check(struct dst_entry *dst, from = rcu_dereference(rt->from); if (from && (rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_PCPU || - unlikely(!list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached)))) + unlikely(rt->dst.rt_uncached_list))) dst_ret = rt6_dst_from_check(rt, from, cookie); else dst_ret = rt6_check(rt, from, cookie);
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2.55.0.1082.g2b9226bbc0-goog