[PATCH 1/1] net: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown
From: Ren Wei
Date: Mon Mar 30 2026 - 04:52:45 EST
From: Zhengchuan Liang <zcliangcn@xxxxxxxxx>
`ip6fl_seq_show()` walks the global flowlabel hash under the seq-file
RCU read-side lock and prints `fl->opt->opt_nflen` when an option block
is present.
Exclusive flowlabels currently free `fl->opt` as soon as `fl->users`
drops to zero in `fl_release()`. However, the surrounding
`struct ip6_flowlabel` remains visible in the global hash table until
later garbage collection removes it and `fl_free_rcu()` finally tears it
down.
A concurrent `/proc/net/ip6_flowlabel` reader can therefore race that
early `kfree()` and dereference freed option state, triggering a crash
in `ip6fl_seq_show()`.
Fix this by keeping `fl->opt` alive until `fl_free_rcu()`. That matches
the lifetime already required for the enclosing flowlabel while readers
can still reach it under RCU.
Fixes: d3aedd5ebd4b ("ipv6 flowlabel: Convert hash list to RCU.")
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@xxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Xin Liu <bird@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ren Wei <enjou1224z@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhengchuan Liang <zcliangcn@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
index 7c12bf75beedf..c92f98c6f6ecc 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
@@ -133,11 +133,6 @@ static void fl_release(struct ip6_flowlabel *fl)
if (time_after(ttd, fl->expires))
fl->expires = ttd;
ttd = fl->expires;
- if (fl->opt && fl->share == IPV6_FL_S_EXCL) {
- struct ipv6_txoptions *opt = fl->opt;
- fl->opt = NULL;
- kfree(opt);
- }
if (!timer_pending(&ip6_fl_gc_timer) ||
time_after(ip6_fl_gc_timer.expires, ttd))
mod_timer(&ip6_fl_gc_timer, ttd);
--
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