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authorYuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>2026-05-24 11:24:56 +0900
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-05-27 17:01:56 -0700
commit56ed77ff6022271e172f043b44193889226e42b0 (patch)
treedb0ece1078d55330138a8e84f8c92f0b090a8a80 /net
parentf289c0664f64578355d10a85a6e0108fd182043c (diff)
downloadlinux-next-history-56ed77ff6022271e172f043b44193889226e42b0.tar.gz
ipv6: mcast: annotate data-races around mca_users
/proc/net/igmp6 walks IPv6 multicast memberships under RCU and prints mca_users without holding idev->mc_lock, while multicast join and leave paths update the field while holding idev->mc_lock. Annotate this intentional lockless snapshot with READ_ONCE() and the matching writers with WRITE_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260524022456.20689-1-sigefriedhyy@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/mcast.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
index 6ddc18ac59b95..1297047fedb2b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ static struct ifmcaddr6 *mca_alloc(struct inet6_dev *idev,
mc->mca_addr = *addr;
mc->idev = idev; /* reference taken by caller */
- mc->mca_users = 1;
+ WRITE_ONCE(mc->mca_users, 1);
/* mca_stamp should be updated upon changes */
mc->mca_cstamp = mc->mca_tstamp = jiffies;
refcount_set(&mc->mca_refcnt, 1);
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ static int __ipv6_dev_mc_inc(struct net_device *dev,
for_each_mc_mclock(idev, mc) {
if (ipv6_addr_equal(&mc->mca_addr, addr)) {
- mc->mca_users++;
+ WRITE_ONCE(mc->mca_users, mc->mca_users + 1);
ip6_mc_add_src(idev, &mc->mca_addr, mode, 0, NULL, 0);
mutex_unlock(&idev->mc_lock);
in6_dev_put(idev);
@@ -995,7 +995,10 @@ int __ipv6_dev_mc_dec(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr)
(ma = mc_dereference(*map, idev));
map = &ma->next) {
if (ipv6_addr_equal(&ma->mca_addr, addr)) {
- if (--ma->mca_users == 0) {
+ int new_users = ma->mca_users - 1;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(ma->mca_users, new_users);
+ if (new_users == 0) {
*map = ma->next;
igmp6_group_dropped(ma);
@@ -2974,7 +2977,7 @@ static int igmp6_mc_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
"%-4d %-15s %pi6 %5d %08X %ld\n",
state->dev->ifindex, state->dev->name,
&im->mca_addr,
- im->mca_users, im->mca_flags,
+ READ_ONCE(im->mca_users), im->mca_flags,
(im->mca_flags & MAF_TIMER_RUNNING) ?
jiffies_to_clock_t(im->mca_work.timer.expires - jiffies) : 0);
return 0;