linux/net/core
Kuniyuki Iwashima ed3ba9b6e2 net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.
SIOCBRDELIF is passed to dev_ioctl() first and later forwarded to
br_ioctl_call(), which causes unnecessary RTNL dance and the splat
below [0] under RTNL pressure.

Let's say Thread A is trying to detach a device from a bridge and
Thread B is trying to remove the bridge.

In dev_ioctl(), Thread A bumps the bridge device's refcnt by
netdev_hold() and releases RTNL because the following br_ioctl_call()
also re-acquires RTNL.

In the race window, Thread B could acquire RTNL and try to remove
the bridge device.  Then, rtnl_unlock() by Thread B will release RTNL
and wait for netdev_put() by Thread A.

Thread A, however, must hold RTNL after the unlock in dev_ifsioc(),
which may take long under RTNL pressure, resulting in the splat by
Thread B.

  Thread A (SIOCBRDELIF)           Thread B (SIOCBRDELBR)
  ----------------------           ----------------------
  sock_ioctl                       sock_ioctl
  `- sock_do_ioctl                 `- br_ioctl_call
     `- dev_ioctl                     `- br_ioctl_stub
        |- rtnl_lock                     |
        |- dev_ifsioc                    '
        '  |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
           |- netdev_hold(dev, ...)      .
       /   |- rtnl_unlock  ------.       |
       |   |- br_ioctl_call       `--->  |- rtnl_lock
  Race |   |  `- br_ioctl_stub           |- br_del_bridge
  Window   |     |                       |  |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
       |   |     |  May take long        |  `- br_dev_delete(dev, ...)
       |   |     |  under RTNL pressure  |     `- unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, ...)
       |   |     |               |       `- rtnl_unlock
       \   |     |- rtnl_lock  <-'          `- netdev_run_todo
           |     |- ...                        `- netdev_run_todo
           |     `- rtnl_unlock                   |- __rtnl_unlock
           |                                      |- netdev_wait_allrefs_any
           |- netdev_put(dev, ...)  <----------------'
                                                Wait refcnt decrement
                                                and log splat below

To avoid blocking SIOCBRDELBR unnecessarily, let's not call
dev_ioctl() for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.

In the dev_ioctl() path, we do the following:

  1. Copy struct ifreq by get_user_ifreq in sock_do_ioctl()
  2. Check CAP_NET_ADMIN in dev_ioctl()
  3. Call dev_load() in dev_ioctl()
  4. Fetch the master dev from ifr.ifr_name in dev_ifsioc()

3. can be done by request_module() in br_ioctl_call(), so we move
1., 2., and 4. to br_ioctl_stub().

Note that 2. is also checked later in add_del_if(), but it's better
performed before RTNL.

SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF have been processed in dev_ioctl() since
the pre-git era, and there seems to be no specific reason to process
them there.

[0]:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for wpan3 to become free. Usage count = 2
ref_tracker: wpan3@ffff8880662d8608 has 1/1 users at
     __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4282 [inline]
     netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4311 [inline]
     dev_ifsioc+0xc6a/0x1160 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:624
     dev_ioctl+0x255/0x10c0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:826
     sock_do_ioctl+0x1ca/0x260 net/socket.c:1213
     sock_ioctl+0x23a/0x6c0 net/socket.c:1318
     vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
     __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
     __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a4/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:892
     do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
     do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fixes: 893b195875 ("net: bridge: fix ioctl locking")
Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Reported-by: yan kang <kangyan91@outlook.com>
Reported-by: yue sun <samsun1006219@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/SY8P300MB0421225D54EB92762AE8F0F2A1D32@SY8P300MB0421.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250316192851.19781-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-21 22:10:06 +01:00
..
Makefile net: Implement fault injection forcing skb reallocation 2024-11-12 12:05:33 +01:00
bpf_sk_storage.c bpf: Remove unnecessary BTF lookups in bpf_sk_storage_tracing_allowed 2025-01-29 08:51:51 -08:00
datagram.c net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags 2024-09-11 20:44:31 -07:00
dev.c netmem: prevent TX of unreadable skbs 2025-03-07 19:32:25 -08:00
dev.h net: make netdev netlink ops hold netdev_lock() 2025-01-15 19:13:34 -08:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add Multicast Filtering support for VLAN in MAC mode 2025-01-14 12:17:27 +01:00
dev_addr_lists_test.c net: dev_addr_lists: move locking out of init/exit in kunit 2024-04-15 10:26:35 +01:00
dev_ioctl.c net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF. 2025-03-21 22:10:06 +01:00
devmem.c net: devmem: do not WARN conditionally after netdev_rx_queue_restart() 2025-03-10 13:31:12 -07:00
devmem.h tcp: RX path for devmem TCP 2024-09-11 20:44:32 -07:00
drop_monitor.c drop_monitor: fix incorrect initialization order 2025-02-17 16:35:55 -08:00
dst.c net: do not delay dst_entries_add() in dst_release() 2024-10-10 11:28:17 +02:00
dst_cache.c net: dst_cache: add two DEBUG_NET warnings 2024-06-03 18:50:09 -07:00
failover.c
fib_notifier.c net: do not acquire rtnl in fib_seq_sum() 2024-10-11 15:35:05 -07:00
fib_rules.c net: fib_rules: annotate data-races around rule->[io]ifindex 2025-02-07 11:51:26 -08:00
filter.c bpf-next-6.14 2025-01-23 08:04:07 -08:00
flow_dissector.c flow_dissector: Fix port range key handling in BPF conversion 2025-02-19 18:54:59 -08:00
flow_offload.c
gen_estimator.c net: use unrcu_pointer() helper 2024-06-06 11:52:52 +02:00
gen_stats.c
gro.c net: Clear old fragment checksum value in napi_reuse_skb 2025-02-26 18:13:35 -08:00
gro_cells.c net: move netdev_max_backlog to net_hotdata 2024-03-07 21:12:42 -08:00
gso.c net: introduce struct net_hotdata 2024-03-07 21:12:41 -08:00
hotdata.c net: move sysctl_mem_pcpu_rsv to net_hotdata 2024-04-30 18:46:52 -07:00
hwbm.c
ieee8021q_helpers.c net: add IEEE 802.1q specific helpers 2024-05-08 10:35:09 +01:00
link_watch.c ipvlan: Fix use-after-free in ipvlan_get_iflink(). 2025-01-07 17:50:49 -08:00
lwt_bpf.c bpf: lwtunnel: Prepare bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute() to future .flowi4_tos conversion. 2024-11-14 19:07:49 -08:00
lwtunnel.c net: lwtunnel: fix recursion loops 2025-03-20 11:25:52 +01:00
mp_dmabuf_devmem.h memory-provider: dmabuf devmem memory provider 2024-09-11 20:44:31 -07:00
neighbour.c net/neighbor: add missing policy for NDTPA_QUEUE_LENBYTES 2025-03-20 15:23:29 +01:00
net-procfs.c net: make softnet_data.dropped an atomic_t 2024-04-01 11:28:32 +01:00
net-sysfs.c net: protect NAPI config fields with netdev_lock() 2025-01-15 19:13:34 -08:00
net-sysfs.h
net-traces.c move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h 2024-10-02 17:23:23 -04:00
net_namespace.c net: Add net_passive_inc() and net_passive_dec(). 2025-02-18 18:33:29 -08:00
net_test.c pfcp: always set pfcp metadata 2024-04-01 10:49:28 +01:00
netclassid_cgroup.c
netdev-genl-gen.c netdev: avoid CFI problems with sock priv helpers 2025-01-16 13:15:40 +01:00
netdev-genl-gen.h netdev-genl: Support setting per-NAPI config values 2024-10-14 17:54:29 -07:00
netdev-genl.c netdev-genl: remove rtnl_lock protection from NAPI ops 2025-01-15 19:13:35 -08:00
netdev_rx_queue.c netdev: define NETDEV_INTERNAL 2025-01-09 15:33:08 +01:00
netevent.c
netmem_priv.h page_pool: devmem support 2024-09-11 20:44:31 -07:00
netpoll.c netpoll: hold rcu read lock in __netpoll_send_skb() 2025-03-07 19:57:33 -08:00
netprio_cgroup.c
of_net.c
page_pool.c First batch of fixes for 6.14. Nothing really stands out, 2025-01-30 12:24:20 -08:00
page_pool_priv.h net: page_pool: don't try to stash the napi id 2025-01-27 14:37:41 -08:00
page_pool_user.c net: page_pool: don't try to stash the napi id 2025-01-27 14:37:41 -08:00
pktgen.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2025-01-16 10:34:59 -08:00
ptp_classifier.c
request_sock.c tcp: make sure init the accept_queue's spinlocks once 2024-01-19 21:13:25 -08:00
rtnetlink.c rtnetlink: fix netns leak with rtnl_setlink() 2025-02-06 17:17:44 -08:00
rtnl_net_debug.c dev: Hold rtnl_net_lock() for dev_ifsioc(). 2025-01-16 17:20:50 -08:00
scm.c tcp: devmem: don't write truncated dmabuf CMSGs to userspace 2025-02-25 18:15:43 -08:00
secure_seq.c
selftests.c
skb_fault_injection.c net: Implement fault injection forcing skb reallocation 2024-11-12 12:05:33 +01:00
skbuff.c ipvs: Always clear ipvs_property flag in skb_scrub_packet() 2025-02-25 13:15:17 +01:00
skmsg.c bpf: Fix wrong copied_seq calculation 2025-01-29 13:32:23 -08:00
sock.c net: better track kernel sockets lifetime 2025-02-21 16:00:58 -08:00
sock_destructor.h
sock_diag.c net: use unrcu_pointer() helper 2024-06-06 11:52:52 +02:00
sock_map.c BPF fixes: 2025-02-20 15:37:17 -08:00
sock_reuseport.c net: core: annotate socks of struct sock_reuseport with __counted_by 2024-08-02 17:16:59 -07:00
stream.c net: Return error from sk_stream_wait_connect() if sk_wait_event() fails 2023-12-15 10:48:51 +00:00
sysctl_net_core.c net: set the minimum for net_hotdata.netdev_budget_usecs 2025-02-21 16:27:54 -08:00
timestamping.c net: Add the possibility to support a selected hwtstamp in netdevice 2024-12-16 12:51:40 +00:00
tso.c move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h 2024-10-02 17:23:23 -04:00
utils.c net: Correct spelling in net/core 2024-08-26 09:37:23 -07:00
xdp.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2025-01-16 10:34:59 -08:00