5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com
[ Upstream commit 0e4427f8f587c4b603475468bb3aee9418574893 ]
After commit 22600596b675 ("ipv4: give an IPv4 dev to blackhole_netdev") IPv4 neighbors can be constructed on the blackhole net device, but they are constructed with an output function (neigh_direct_output()) that simply calls dev_queue_xmit(). The latter will transmit packets via 'skb->dev' which might not be the blackhole net device if dst_dev_put() switched 'dst->dev' to the blackhole net device while another CPU was using the dst entry in ip_output(), but after it already initialized 'skb->dev' from 'dst->dev'.
Specifically, the following can happen:
CPU1 CPU2
udp_sendmsg(sk1) udp_sendmsg(sk2) udp_send_skb() [...] ip_output() skb->dev = skb_dst(skb)->dev dst_dev_put() dst->dev = blackhole_netdev ip_finish_output2() resolves neigh on dst->dev neigh_output() neigh_direct_output() dev_queue_xmit()
This will result in IPv4 packets being sent without an Ethernet header via a valid net device:
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v[v]... for full protocol decode listening on enp9s0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144 bytes 22:07:02.329668 20:00:40:11:18:fb > 45:00:00:44:f4:94, ethertype Unknown (0x58c6), length 68: 0x0000: 8dda 74ca f1ae ca6c ca6c 0098 969c 0400 ..t....l.l...... 0x0010: 0000 4730 3f18 6800 0000 0000 0000 9971 ..G0?.h........q 0x0020: c4c9 9055 a157 0a70 9ead bf83 38ca ab38 ...U.W.p....8..8 0x0030: 8add ab96 e052 .....R
Fix by making sure that neighbors are constructed on top of the blackhole net device with an output function that simply consumes the packets, in a similar fashion to dst_discard_out() and blackhole_netdev_xmit().
Fixes: 8d7017fd621d ("blackhole_netdev: use blackhole_netdev to invalidate dst entries") Fixes: 22600596b675 ("ipv4: give an IPv4 dev to blackhole_netdev") Reported-by: Florian Meister fmei@sfs.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250210084931.23a5c2e4@hermes.local/ Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072559.782296-1-idosch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/loopback.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index 7788f72c262e6..1dd5044cc6438 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -241,8 +241,22 @@ static netdev_tx_t blackhole_netdev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, return NETDEV_TX_OK; }
+static int blackhole_neigh_output(struct neighbour *n, struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + kfree_skb(skb); + return 0; +} + +static int blackhole_neigh_construct(struct net_device *dev, + struct neighbour *n) +{ + n->output = blackhole_neigh_output; + return 0; +} + static const struct net_device_ops blackhole_netdev_ops = { .ndo_start_xmit = blackhole_netdev_xmit, + .ndo_neigh_construct = blackhole_neigh_construct, };
/* This is a dst-dummy device used specifically for invalidated