rtnetlink: wait for RCU readers in rtnl_link_unregister()

rtnl_link_ops_get() finds ops on link_ops under rcu_read_lock() and only
then takes ops->srcu. rtnl_link_unregister() unlinks ops, then calls
synchronize_srcu() and cleanup_srcu_struct() without first waiting for
RCU readers. A reader that found ops before list_del_rcu() and has not yet
taken ops->srcu is not waited for.

Such a reader then locks a cleaned-up srcu_struct and keeps using ops
after the module that owns it is gone. rtnl_newlink() and
rtnl_dump_ifinfo() both look up ops without RTNL, the latter for any
user that dumps links filtered by kind.

With delays added between the lookup and srcu_read_lock() in
rtnl_link_ops_get(), and before rtnl_link_ops_put() in
rtnl_dump_ifinfo(), running "ip link show type dummy" alongside
"rmmod dummy" on a KASAN kernel gives:

  BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in __srcu_read_unlock+0x57/0x70
  Read of size 8 at addr ffffffffc02ff318 by task ip/147
  Call Trace:
   __srcu_read_unlock+0x57/0x70
   rtnl_dump_ifinfo.cold+0x30/0x3b
   rtnl_dumpit+0x7a/0x1b0
   netlink_dump+0x486/0x11b0
   __netlink_dump_start+0x661/0x910
   rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x611/0x9e0
   netlink_rcv_skb+0x126/0x380
   netlink_unicast+0x605/0x830
   netlink_sendmsg+0x6d0/0xbb0
   __sys_sendto+0x335/0x3a0

Call synchronize_rcu() before synchronize_srcu(), as
rtnl_af_unregister() already does. This should be enough because
rtnl_link_ops_get() is the only RCU walker of link_ops, and it takes
ops->srcu before rcu_read_unlock(), so every reader that found ops is
covered by synchronize_srcu() once the RCU grace period ends. The extra
grace period only costs time at module unload.

Readers and the writer were serialized by RTNL until link_ops got its
own mutex, which is why the missing RCU wait did not matter before.

Cc: stable+noautosel@kernel.org # needs real net-admin (non-ns)
Fixes: 6b57ff21a3 ("rtnetlink: Protect link_ops by mutex.")
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261001143040.28467-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Andrea Parri authored and Jakub Kicinski committed 2026-10-05 15:03:27 -07:00
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@@ -707,6 +707,10 @@ void rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops)
list_del_rcu(&ops->list);
mutex_unlock(&link_ops_mutex);
/* Wait for rtnl_link_ops_get() readers that found ops but have
* not yet taken ops->srcu.
*/
synchronize_rcu();
synchronize_srcu(&ops->srcu);
cleanup_srcu_struct(&ops->srcu);