From 2ffb4f5c2ccb2fa1c049dd11899aee7967deef5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 11:45:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu() l3mdev_master_dev_rcu() can return NULL when the slave device is being un-slaved from a VRF. All other callers deal with this, but we lost the fallback to loopback in ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() -> ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu() with commit 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on device with address"). KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f] RIP: 0010:ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc (net/ipv6/route.c:1418) Call Trace: ip6_pol_route (net/ipv6/route.c:2318) fib6_rule_lookup (net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:115) ip6_route_output_flags (net/ipv6/route.c:2607) vrf_process_v6_outbound (drivers/net/vrf.c:437) I was tempted to rework the un-slaving code to clear the flag first and insert synchronize_rcu() before we remove the upper. But looks like the explicit fallback to loopback_dev is an established pattern. And I guess avoiding the synchronize_rcu() is nice, too. Fixes: 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on device with address") Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260301194548.927324-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/ipv6/route.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 85df25c36409..7db0c837196c 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -1063,7 +1063,8 @@ static struct net_device *ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu(const struct fib6_result *res) */ if (netif_is_l3_slave(dev) && !rt6_need_strict(&res->f6i->fib6_dst.addr)) - dev = l3mdev_master_dev_rcu(dev); + dev = l3mdev_master_dev_rcu(dev) ? : + dev_net(dev)->loopback_dev; else if (!netif_is_l3_master(dev)) dev = dev_net(dev)->loopback_dev; /* last case is netif_is_l3_master(dev) is true in which