[PATCH net v2 0/2] net,bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for bonding and add selftest
From: Jiayuan Chen
Date: Fri Feb 27 2026 - 04:23:50 EST
syzkaller reported a kernel panic [1] with the following crash stack:
Call Trace:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff8ebd08580000
PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 11f201067 P4D 11f201067 PUD 0
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 451 Comm: test_progs Not tainted 6.19.0+ #161 PREEMPT_RT
RIP: 0010:bond_rr_gen_slave_id+0x90/0xd0
RSP: 0018:ffffd3f4815f3448 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff8ebc8728b17e
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffd3f4815f3538 RDI: ffff8ebc8abcce40
RBP: ffffd3f4815f3460 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffd3f4815f3538
R13: ffff8ebc8abcce40 R14: ffff8ebc8728b17f R15: ffff8ebc8728b170
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff8ebd08580000 CR3: 000000010a808006 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
bond_xdp_get_xmit_slave+0xc0/0x240
xdp_master_redirect+0x74/0xc0
bpf_prog_run_generic_xdp+0x2f2/0x3f0
do_xdp_generic+0x1fd/0x3d0
__netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x30d/0x1220
__netif_receive_skb_list_core+0xfc/0x250
netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x20c/0x3d0
? eth_type_trans+0x137/0x160
netif_receive_skb_list+0x25/0x140
xdp_test_run_batch.constprop.0+0x65b/0x6e0
bpf_test_run_xdp_live+0x1ec/0x3b0
bpf_prog_test_run_xdp+0x49d/0x6e0
__sys_bpf+0x446/0x27b0
__x64_sys_bpf+0x1a/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x146c/0x26e0
do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x1510
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Problem Description
bond_rr_gen_slave_id() dereferences bond->rr_tx_counter without a NULL
check. rr_tx_counter is a per-CPU counter only allocated in bond_open()
when the bond mode is round-robin. If the bond device was never brought
up, rr_tx_counter remains NULL.
The XDP redirect path can reach this code even when the bond is not up:
bpf_master_redirect_enabled_key is a global static key, so when any bond
device has native XDP attached, the XDP_TX -> xdp_master_redirect()
interception is enabled for all bond slaves system-wide.
Solution
Patch 1: Add rr_tx_counter initialization in bond_create_init().
Patch 2: Add a selftest that reproduces the above scenario.
Changes since v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260224112545.37888-1-jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx/T/#t
- Moved the guard for NULL rr_tx_counter from xdp_master_redirect()
into the bonding subsystem itself
(Suggested by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=80e046b8da2820b6ba73
Jiayuan Chen (2):
bonding: fix null-ptr-deref in bond_rr_gen_slave_id()
selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 18 ++--
drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c | 4 +
include/net/bonding.h | 1 +
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_bonding.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++-
4 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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