Forwarded: [syzbot] test WARN_ON for addrconf on unregistering devices

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Date: Thu May 14 2026 - 07:14:16 EST


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Subject: [syzbot] test WARN_ON for addrconf on unregistering devices
Author: raoxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci

From: Xu Rao <raoxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH debug] ipv6: addrconf: warn on autoconf for unregistering devices

Add WARN_ON() checks where the proposed fix skips IPv6 autoconf on
unregistering devices. This is a diagnostic patch to confirm whether
the syzbot reproducer reaches the MTU / UP / CHANGE paths after the
netdevice has entered NETREG_UNREGISTERING.

Signed-off-by: Xu Rao <raoxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 5476b6536eb7..72a3b17d30a1 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -3666,6 +3666,8 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
break;

case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
+ WARN_ON(dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERING);
+
/* if MTU under IPV6_MIN_MTU stop IPv6 on this interface. */
if (dev->mtu < IPV6_MIN_MTU) {
addrconf_ifdown(dev, dev != net->loopback_dev);
@@ -3691,12 +3693,14 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
fallthrough;
case NETDEV_UP:
case NETDEV_CHANGE:
+ WARN_ON(dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERING);
+
if (idev && idev->cnf.disable_ipv6)
break;

if (dev->priv_flags & IFF_NO_ADDRCONF) {
if (event == NETDEV_UP && !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(idev) &&
dev->flags & IFF_UP && dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST)
ipv6_mc_up(idev);
break;
}
--
2.50.1