Re: [PATCH net v3] ipv4: igmp: remove multicast group from hash table on device destruction

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 01:52:05 EST


From: Yuyang Huang <yuyanghuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 08:50:14 +0900
> When a device is destroyed under RTNL, ip_mc_destroy_dev() iterates through
> the multicast list and calls ip_ma_put() on each membership, scheduling
> them for RCU reclamation. However, they are not unlinked from the device's
> multicast hash table (mc_hash).
>
> Since the device remains published in dev->ip_ptr until after
> ip_mc_destroy_dev() completes, concurrent RCU readers traversing mc_hash
> can still locate and access the multicast group after its refcount is
> decremented. If the RCU callback runs and frees the group while a reader is
> accessing it, a use-after-free occurs.
>
> Fix this by unlinking the multicast group from mc_hash using
> ip_mc_hash_remove() before scheduling it for reclamation.
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ip_check_mc_rcu+0x149/0x3f0
> Read of size 4 at addr ffff888009bf1408 by task mausezahn/2276
>
> Call Trace:
> <IRQ>
> dump_stack_lvl+0x67/0x90
> print_report+0x175/0x7c0
> kasan_report+0x147/0x180
> ip_check_mc_rcu+0x149/0x3f0
> udp_v4_early_demux+0x36d/0x12d0
> ip_rcv_finish_core+0xb8b/0x1390
> ip_rcv_finish+0x54/0x120
> NF_HOOK+0x213/0x2b0
> __netif_receive_skb+0x126/0x340
> process_backlog+0x4f2/0xf00
> __napi_poll+0x92/0x2c0
> net_rx_action+0x583/0xc60
> handle_softirqs+0x236/0x7f0
> do_softirq+0x57/0x80
> </IRQ>
>
> Allocated by task 2239:
> kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80
> __kasan_kmalloc+0x72/0x90
> ____ip_mc_inc_group+0x31a/0xa40
> __ip_mc_join_group+0x334/0x3f0
> do_ip_setsockopt+0x16fa/0x2010
> ip_setsockopt+0x3f/0x90
> do_sock_setsockopt+0x1ad/0x300
>
> Freed by task 0:
> kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80
> kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50
> __kasan_slab_free+0x3a/0x60
> __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0xd4/0x220
> rcu_free_sheaf+0x36/0x190
> rcu_core+0x8d9/0x12f0
> handle_softirqs+0x236/0x7f0
>
> Fixes: e9897071350b ("igmp: hash a hash table to speedup ip_check_mc_rcu()")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <yuyanghuang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>