Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix panic when forwarding a pkt with no in6 dev

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Apr 08 2022 - 18:18:56 EST



On 4/8/22 07:03, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
kongweibin reported a kernel panic in ip6_forward() when input interface
has no in6 dev associated.

The following tc commands were used to reproduce this panic:
tc qdisc del dev vxlan100 root
tc qdisc add dev vxlan100 root netem corrupt 5%

Not sure I understand how these qdisc changes can trigger a NULL idev ?

Do we have another bug, like skb->cb[] content being mangled ?



CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: ccd27f05ae7b ("ipv6: fix 'disable_policy' for fwd packets")
Reported-by: kongweibin <kongweibin2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
---

kongweibin, could you test this patch with your setup?

Thanks,
Nicolas

net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index e23f058166af..fa63ef2bd99c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb)
goto drop;
if (!net->ipv6.devconf_all->disable_policy &&
- !idev->cnf.disable_policy &&
+ (!idev || !idev->cnf.disable_policy) &&
!xfrm6_policy_check(NULL, XFRM_POLICY_FWD, skb)) {
__IP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, IPSTATS_MIB_INDISCARDS);
goto drop;