[PATCH net v2 1/5] ipv6: restrict gc_elasticity to 31
From: Jiayuan Chen
Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 06:55:56 EST
Every counted IPv6 dst allocation runs ip6_dst_gc() once the number of
live dst goes over gc_thresh (1024 by default). ip6_dst_gc() decays
ip6_rt_gc_expire by gc_elasticity: the smaller gc_elasticity is, the
smaller ip6_rt_gc_expire gets, i.e. the more aggressive the gc.
ip6_dst_gc() reads ip6_rt_gc_expire into a u32, but gc_elasticity has no
bounds at all, so writing >= 32 shifts a 32-bit value by >= 32 bits, and
a negative value gives a negative shift count. Both are UB:
val = atomic_read(&net->ipv6.ip6_rt_gc_expire);
atomic_set(&net->ipv6.ip6_rt_gc_expire, val - (val >> rt_elasticity));
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/ipv6/route.c:3369:53
shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int'
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 615 Comm: ping6 Not tainted 7.3.0-rc7+ #364 PREEMPT
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0xc1/0xf0
dump_stack+0x10/0x20
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1d1/0x390
ip6_dst_gc.cold+0x15/0x1a
dst_alloc+0x4e0/0x620
ip6_rt_cache_alloc+0x189/0x7e0
__ip6_rt_update_pmtu+0x68e/0x1160
ip6_update_pmtu+0x30c/0x3a0
icmpv6_err+0x1fa/0x330
icmpv6_notify+0x303/0x770
icmpv6_rcv+0xc12/0x1670
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xb4a/0x1520
ip6_input_finish+0x19c/0x400
ip6_input+0xd4/0x240
ipv6_rcv+0x1fd/0x330
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x118/0x1c0
__netif_receive_skb+0x21/0x150
process_backlog+0x37e/0x1200
__napi_poll.constprop.0+0xa5/0x5e0
net_rx_action+0x4c0/0xf70
handle_softirqs+0x204/0x9b0
__do_softirq+0x10/0x18
Make it a u8 and reject writes outside 0..31 with proc_dou8vec_minmax().
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: switched to u8 and proc_dou8vec_minmax(), as suggested by Kuniyuki
Iwashima.
---
include/net/netns/ipv6.h | 2 +-
net/ipv6/route.c | 7 +++++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv6.h b/include/net/netns/ipv6.h
index ffda15318be59..aefce37c04a4f 100644
--- a/include/net/netns/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/ipv6.h
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ struct netns_sysctl_ipv6 {
int ip6_rt_gc_min_interval;
int ip6_rt_gc_timeout;
int ip6_rt_gc_interval;
- int ip6_rt_gc_elasticity;
int ip6_rt_mtu_expires;
int ip6_rt_min_advmss;
u32 multipath_hash_fields;
u8 multipath_hash_policy;
+ u8 ip6_rt_gc_elasticity;
__cacheline_group_begin(sysctl_ipv6_flowlabel);
u8 flowlabel_consistency;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 94e5ef1c4f83e..abc8b811cd423 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -6579,6 +6579,8 @@ static int ipv6_sysctl_rtcache_flush(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
return 0;
}
+static int ip6_rt_gc_elasticity_max = 31;
+
static const struct ctl_table ipv6_route_table_template[] = {
{
.procname = "max_size",
@@ -6625,9 +6627,10 @@ static const struct ctl_table ipv6_route_table_template[] = {
{
.procname = "gc_elasticity",
.data = &init_net.ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_elasticity,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(u8),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dou8vec_minmax,
+ .extra2 = &ip6_rt_gc_elasticity_max,
},
{
.procname = "mtu_expires",
--
2.43.0