[PATCH 2/2] ipv4: igmp: annotate data-races around timer-related fields

From: Yuyang Huang

Date: Sat May 30 2026 - 23:08:33 EST


/proc/net/igmp walks the multicast list locklessly under RCU and reads
timer-related fields (im->tm_running, im->reporter, im->timer.expires)
to print the timer state of multicast memberships. Concurrently, these
fields are modified under im->lock spinlock in timer management paths
(igmp_stop_timer(), igmp_start_timer(), and igmp_timer_expire()). Fix this
intentional lockless snapshot by annotating the lockless reads with
READ_ONCE() and the updates with WRITE_ONCE().

Fixes: 1d7138de878d ("igmp: RCU conversion of in_dev->mc_list")
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <yuyanghuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/igmp.c | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/igmp.c b/net/ipv4/igmp.c
index fd0faf042fa6..1e958027068b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/igmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/igmp.c
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ static void igmp_stop_timer(struct ip_mc_list *im)
spin_lock_bh(&im->lock);
if (timer_delete(&im->timer))
refcount_dec(&im->refcnt);
- im->tm_running = 0;
- im->reporter = 0;
+ WRITE_ONCE(im->tm_running, 0);
+ WRITE_ONCE(im->reporter, 0);
im->unsolicit_count = 0;
spin_unlock_bh(&im->lock);
}
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static void igmp_start_timer(struct ip_mc_list *im, int max_delay)
{
int tv = get_random_u32_below(max_delay);

- im->tm_running = 1;
+ WRITE_ONCE(im->tm_running, 1);
if (refcount_inc_not_zero(&im->refcnt)) {
if (mod_timer(&im->timer, jiffies + tv + 2))
ip_ma_put(im);
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static void igmp_mod_timer(struct ip_mc_list *im, int max_delay)
if (timer_delete(&im->timer)) {
if ((long)(im->timer.expires-jiffies) < max_delay) {
add_timer(&im->timer);
- im->tm_running = 1;
+ WRITE_ONCE(im->tm_running, 1);
spin_unlock_bh(&im->lock);
return;
}
@@ -857,12 +857,12 @@ static void igmp_timer_expire(struct timer_list *t)
struct in_device *in_dev = im->interface;

spin_lock(&im->lock);
- im->tm_running = 0;
+ WRITE_ONCE(im->tm_running, 0);

if (im->unsolicit_count && --im->unsolicit_count)
igmp_start_timer(im, unsolicited_report_interval(in_dev));

- im->reporter = 1;
+ WRITE_ONCE(im->reporter, 1);
spin_unlock(&im->lock);

if (IGMP_V1_SEEN(in_dev))
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ static void __igmp_group_dropped(struct ip_mc_list *im, gfp_t gfp)
!READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_igmp_llm_reports))
return;

- reporter = im->reporter;
+ reporter = READ_ONCE(im->reporter);
igmp_stop_timer(im);

if (!in_dev->dead) {
@@ -2964,6 +2964,7 @@ static int igmp_mc_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
struct igmp_mc_iter_state *state = igmp_mc_seq_private(seq);
char *querier;
long delta;
+ int tm_running;

#ifdef CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST
querier = IGMP_V1_SEEN(state->in_dev) ? "V1" :
@@ -2980,13 +2981,14 @@ static int igmp_mc_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
querier);
}

- delta = im->timer.expires - jiffies;
+ tm_running = READ_ONCE(im->tm_running);
+ delta = READ_ONCE(im->timer.expires) - jiffies;
seq_printf(seq,
"\t\t\t\t%08X %5d %d:%08lX\t\t%d\n",
im->multiaddr, READ_ONCE(im->users),
- im->tm_running,
- im->tm_running ? jiffies_delta_to_clock_t(delta) : 0,
- im->reporter);
+ tm_running,
+ tm_running ? jiffies_delta_to_clock_t(delta) : 0,
+ READ_ONCE(im->reporter));
}
return 0;
}
--
2.54.0.823.g6e5bcc1fc9-goog