[PATCH net v2 4/5] ipv4: restrict igmp_qrv to 255
From: Jiayuan Chen
Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 06:55:25 EST
net.ipv4.igmp_qrv only has a lower bound, but ip_mc_reset() stores it
into the u8 in_device::mr_qrv, and the IGMPv3 retransmit counters filled
from it (crcount, sf_crcount) are u8 as well. Anything above 255
silently wraps. With 256, mr_qrv becomes 0, every
"in_dev->mr_qrv ?: sysctl_igmp_qrv" falls back to 256, which truncates
to 0 again in crcount, and igmpv3_send_cr() never puts the state change
records for the group into a report. The older version querier present
timeout (mr_qrv * mr_qi + mr_qri) also collapses to just mr_qri.
Make the sysctl a u8 like mr_qrv and switch to proc_dou8vec_minmax(),
which rejects anything above 255, and document it.
Fixes: a9fe8e29945d ("ipv4: implement igmp_qrv sysctl to tune igmp robustness variable")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
For AI review: drivers/net/amt.c writing sysctl_igmp_qrv into the 3-bit
qrv wire fields is pre-existing and out of scope for this patch.
v2: switched to u8 and proc_dou8vec_minmax(), as suggested by Kuniyuki
Iwashima.
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 2 ++
Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/netns_ipv4_sysctl.rst | 2 +-
include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 2 +-
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 71f334f27004e..9e282fb046904 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -1906,6 +1906,8 @@ igmp_qrv - INTEGER
Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
+ Maximum: 255
+
force_igmp_version - INTEGER
- 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/netns_ipv4_sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/netns_ipv4_sysctl.rst
index 3dc03bff739e4..2833ce6cba1d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/netns_ipv4_sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/netns_ipv4_sysctl.rst
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ int sysctl_udp_rmem_min
u8 sysctl_fib_notify_on_flag_change
u8 sysctl_udp_l3mdev_accept
u8 sysctl_igmp_llm_reports
+u8 sysctl_igmp_qrv
int sysctl_igmp_max_memberships
int sysctl_igmp_max_msf
-int sysctl_igmp_qrv
struct_ping_group_range ping_group_range
atomic_t dev_addr_genid
unsigned_int sysctl_udp_child_hash_entries
diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
index cb7f8bf15671c..3efbc7f4b4f7d 100644
--- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
@@ -258,9 +258,9 @@ struct netns_ipv4 {
#endif
u8 sysctl_igmp_llm_reports;
+ u8 sysctl_igmp_qrv;
int sysctl_igmp_max_memberships;
int sysctl_igmp_max_msf;
- int sysctl_igmp_qrv;
struct ping_group_range ping_group_range;
u16 ping_port_rover;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index e3760daa34706..09f7fc6771456 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -975,9 +975,9 @@ static const struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = {
{
.procname = "igmp_qrv",
.data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_igmp_qrv,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(u8),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dou8vec_minmax,
.extra1 = SYSCTL_ONE
},
#endif
--
2.43.0