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Miller" , David Ahern , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman Cc: David Ahern , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fei Liu , Hangbin Liu X-Mailer: b4 0.14.3 fib6_metric_set() may be called concurrently from softirq context without holding the FIB table lock. A typical path is: ndisc_router_discovery() spin_unlock_bh(&table->tb6_lock) <- lock released fib6_metric_set(rt, RTAX_HOPLIMIT, ...) <- lockless call When two CPUs process Router Advertisement packets for the same router simultaneously, they can both arrive at fib6_metric_set() with the same fib6_info pointer whose fib6_metrics still points to dst_default_metrics. if (f6i->fib6_metrics =3D=3D &dst_default_metrics) { /* both CPUs: true= */ struct dst_metrics *p =3D kzalloc_obj(*p, GFP_ATOMIC); refcount_set(&p->refcnt, 1); f6i->fib6_metrics =3D p; /* CPU1 overwrites CPU0's p -> p0 leaked */ } The dst_metrics allocated by the losing CPU has refcnt=3D1 but no pointer to it anywhere in memory, producing a kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xff1100025aca1400 (size 96): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4299271239 backtrace: kmalloc_trace+0x28a/0x380 fib6_metric_set+0xcd/0x180 ndisc_router_discovery+0x12dc/0x24b0 icmpv6_rcv+0xc16/0x1360 Fix this by replacing the plain pointer store with cmpxchg() and free the allocation safely when competition failed. Fixes: d4ead6b34b67 ("net/ipv6: move metrics from dst to rt6_info") Reported-by: Fei Liu Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu --- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c index dd26657b6a4a..64de761f40d5 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c @@ -730,14 +730,16 @@ void fib6_metric_set(struct fib6_info *f6i, int metri= c, u32 val) if (!f6i) return; =20 - if (f6i->fib6_metrics =3D=3D &dst_default_metrics) { + if (READ_ONCE(f6i->fib6_metrics) =3D=3D &dst_default_metrics) { + struct dst_metrics *dflt =3D (struct dst_metrics *)&dst_default_metrics; struct dst_metrics *p =3D kzalloc_obj(*p, GFP_ATOMIC); =20 if (!p) return; =20 refcount_set(&p->refcnt, 1); - f6i->fib6_metrics =3D p; + if (cmpxchg(&f6i->fib6_metrics, dflt, p) !=3D dflt) + kfree(p); } =20 f6i->fib6_metrics->metrics[metric - 1] =3D val; --- base-commit: c4ea7d8907cf72b259bf70bd8c2e791e1c4ff70f change-id: 20260326-b4-fib6_metric_set-kmemleak-7aa51978284a Best regards, --=20 Hangbin Liu