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Jiayuan Chen says:

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net,bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for bonding and add selftest

From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>

This series has gone through several rounds of discussion and the
maintainers hold different views on where the fix should live (in the
generic xdp_master_redirect() path vs. inside bonding). I respect all
of the suggestions, but I would like to get the crash fixed first, so
this version takes the approach of checking whether the master device
is up in xdp_master_redirect(), as suggested by Daniel Borkmann. If a
different shape is preferred later it can be done as a follow-up, but
the null-ptr-deref should not linger.

syzkaller reported a kernel panic, full decoded trace here:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=80e046b8da2820b6ba73

Problem Description

bond_rr_gen_slave_id() dereferences bond->rr_tx_counter without a NULL
check. rr_tx_counter is a per-CPU counter that bonding only allocates
in bond_open() when the mode is round-robin. If the bond device was
never brought up, rr_tx_counter stays NULL.

The XDP redirect path can still reach that code on a bond that was
never opened: bpf_master_redirect_enabled_key is a global static key,
so as soon as any bond device has native XDP attached, the
XDP_TX -> xdp_master_redirect() interception is enabled for every
slave system-wide. The path xdp_master_redirect() ->
bond_xdp_get_xmit_slave() -> bond_xdp_xmit_roundrobin_slave_get() ->
bond_rr_gen_slave_id() then runs against a bond that has no
rr_tx_counter and crashes.

Solution

Patch 1: Fix this in the generic xdp_master_redirect() by skipping
master interception when the master device is not running. Returning
XDP_TX keeps the original XDP_TX behaviour on the receiving slave, and
avoids calling into any master ->ndo_xdp_get_xmit_slave() on a device
that has not fully initialized its XDP state. This is not specific to
bonding: any current or future master that defers XDP state allocation
to ->ndo_open() is protected.
Patch 2: Add a selftest that reproduces the above scenario.

v6: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260410113726.368111-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/T/#t
v5: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260309030659.xxxxx-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260304074301.35482-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260228021918.141002-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/T/#t
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260227092254.272603-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/T/#t
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260224112545.37888-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/T/#t

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=80e046b8da2820b6ba73
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260411005524.201200-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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