Re: [PATCH net v2] bonding: alb: re-check primary_is_promisc under RTNL in bond_alb_monitor

From: Jay Vosburgh

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 17:41:16 EST


Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>bond_alb_monitor() reads primary_is_promisc under RCU, then drops RCU and
>takes RTNL via rtnl_trylock() before undoing the promiscuity it set on the
>active slave. In that window the active slave can change under RTNL
>(RTM_DELLINK -> __bond_release_one() -> bond_alb_handle_active_change()),
>which already drops the promiscuity and clears primary_is_promisc. The
>monitor still acts on the stale decision: if the slave was removed with no
>failover, curr_active_slave is now NULL and the deref faults; if it failed
>over, the stale dev_set_promiscuity(-1) underflows the new slave's
>promiscuity counter and pins it in IFF_PROMISC.
>
> Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...
> KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
> Workqueue: b42 bond_alb_monitor
> RIP: 0010:bond_alb_monitor (drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c:1600)
> process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)
> worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3486)
> kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
> ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
>
>Re-check primary_is_promisc (and curr_active_slave) after taking RTNL so
>the monitor only undoes an increment it still owns. The other bonding
>monitors already re-read state under RTNL in their commit phase
>(bond_miimon_commit/bond_ab_arp_commit); bond_alb_monitor() was the only
>one acting on the pre-trylock decision.
>
>Fixes: d0e81b7e2246 ("bonding: Acquire correct locks in alb for promisc change")
>Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>---
>v2: keep vars' rev-x-mas tree order
>
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
>index 2d37b07c8215..839f7482dc18 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
>@@ -1534,8 +1534,8 @@ void bond_alb_monitor(struct work_struct *work)
> struct bonding *bond = container_of(work, struct bonding,
> alb_work.work);
> struct alb_bond_info *bond_info = &(BOND_ALB_INFO(bond));
>+ struct slave *slave, *curr;
> struct list_head *iter;
>- struct slave *slave;
>
> if (!bond_has_slaves(bond)) {
> atomic_set(&bond_info->tx_rebalance_counter, 0);
>@@ -1597,9 +1597,11 @@ void bond_alb_monitor(struct work_struct *work)
> * because a slave was disabled then
> * it can now leave promiscuous mode.
> */
>- dev_set_promiscuity(rtnl_dereference(bond->curr_active_slave)->dev,
>- -1);
>- bond_info->primary_is_promisc = 0;
>+ curr = rtnl_dereference(bond->curr_active_slave);
>+ if (bond_info->primary_is_promisc && curr) {
>+ dev_set_promiscuity(curr->dev, -1);
>+ bond_info->primary_is_promisc = 0;
>+ }
>
> rtnl_unlock();
> rcu_read_lock();
>--
>2.43.0
>