kernel/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c, branch master

bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()

2026-03-17T02:29:45Z

bond_header_parse() can loop if a stack of two bonding devices is setup, because skb->dev always points to the hierarchy top. Add new "const struct net_device *dev" parameter to (struct header_ops)->parse() method to make sure the recursion is bounded, and that the final leaf parse method is called. Fixes: 950803f72547 ("bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen Tested-by: Jiayuan Chen Cc: Jay Vosburgh Cc: Andrew Lunn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260315104152.1436867-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: bonding: Fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled

2026-03-12T00:53:37Z

When booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, the nd_tbl is never initialized because inet6_init() exits before ndisc_init() is called which initializes it. If bonding ARP/NS validation is enabled, an IPv6 NS/NA packet received on a slave can reach bond_validate_na(), which calls bond_has_this_ip6(). That path calls ipv6_chk_addr() and can crash in __ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags(). BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000005d8 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:__ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags+0x69/0x170 Call Trace: ipv6_chk_addr+0x1f/0x30 bond_validate_na+0x12e/0x1d0 [bonding] ? __pfx_bond_handle_frame+0x10/0x10 [bonding] bond_rcv_validate+0x1a0/0x450 [bonding] bond_handle_frame+0x5e/0x290 [bonding] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x3e8/0xe50 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? update_cfs_rq_load_avg+0x1a/0x240 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? __enqueue_entity+0x5e/0x240 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x39/0xa0 process_backlog+0x9c/0x150 __napi_poll+0x30/0x200 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 net_rx_action+0x338/0x3b0 handle_softirqs+0xc9/0x2a0 do_softirq+0x42/0x60 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x62/0x70 __dev_queue_xmit+0x2d3/0x1000 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? packet_parse_headers+0x10a/0x1a0 packet_sendmsg+0x10da/0x1700 ? kick_pool+0x5f/0x140 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? __queue_work+0x12d/0x4f0 __sys_sendto+0x1f3/0x220 __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x101/0xf80 ? exc_page_fault+0x6e/0x170 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Fix this by checking ipv6_mod_enabled() before dispatching IPv6 packets to bond_na_rcv(). If IPv6 is disabled, return early from bond_rcv_validate() and avoid the path to ipv6_chk_addr(). Suggested-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Fixes: 4e24be018eb9 ("bonding: add new parameter ns_targets") Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260307-net-nd_tbl_fixes-v4-2-e2677e85628c@suse.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()

2026-03-10T10:33:58Z

kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2306! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI RIP: 0010:pskb_expand_head+0xa08/0xfe0 net/core/skbuff.c:2306 RSP: 0018:ffffc90004aff760 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88807e3c8780 RCX: ffffffff89593e0e RDX: ffff88807b7c4900 RSI: ffffffff89594747 RDI: ffff88807b7c4900 RBP: 0000000000000820 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00000000961a63e0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88807e3c8780 R13: 00000000961a6560 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 00000000961a63e0 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fe1a0ed8df0 CR3: 000000002d816000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 Call Trace: ipgre_header+0xdd/0x540 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:900 dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3439 [inline] packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3028 [inline] packet_sendmsg+0x3ae5/0x53c0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3108 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline] ____sys_sendmsg+0xa54/0xc30 net/socket.c:2592 ___sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2646 __sys_sendmsg+0x170/0x220 net/socket.c:2678 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x106/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7fe1a0e6c1a9 When a non-Ethernet device (e.g. GRE tunnel) is enslaved to a bond, bond_setup_by_slave() directly copies the slave's header_ops to the bond device: bond_dev->header_ops = slave_dev->header_ops; This causes a type confusion when dev_hard_header() is later called on the bond device. Functions like ipgre_header(), ip6gre_header(),all use netdev_priv(dev) to access their device-specific private data. When called with the bond device, netdev_priv() returns the bond's private data (struct bonding) instead of the expected type (e.g. struct ip_tunnel), leading to garbage values being read and kernel crashes. Fix this by introducing bond_header_ops with wrapper functions that delegate to the active slave's header_ops using the slave's own device. This ensures netdev_priv() in the slave's header functions always receives the correct device. The fix is placed in the bonding driver rather than individual device drivers, as the root cause is bond blindly inheriting header_ops from the slave without considering that these callbacks expect a specific netdev_priv() layout. The type confusion can be observed by adding a printk in ipgre_header() and running the following commands: ip link add dummy0 type dummy ip addr add 10.0.0.1/24 dev dummy0 ip link set dummy0 up ip link add gre1 type gre local 10.0.0.1 ip link add bond1 type bond mode active-backup ip link set gre1 master bond1 ip link set gre1 up ip link set bond1 up ip addr add fe80::1/64 dev bond1 Fixes: 1284cd3a2b74 ("bonding: two small fixes for IPoIB support") Suggested-by: Jay Vosburgh Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306021508.222062-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

bonding: handle BOND_LINK_FAIL, BOND_LINK_BACK as valid link states

2026-03-07T00:25:16Z

Before the fixed commit, we check slave->new_link during commit state, which values are only BOND_LINK_{NOCHANGE, UP, DOWN}. After the commit, we start using slave->link_new_state, which state also could be BOND_LINK_{FAIL, BACK}. For example, when we set updelay/downdelay, after a failover, the slave->link_new_state could be set to BOND_LINK_{FAIL, BACK} in bond_miimon_inspect(). And later in bond_miimon_commit(), it will treat it as invalid and print an error, which would cause confusion for users. [ 106.440254] bond0: (slave veth2): link status down for interface, disabling it in 200 ms [ 106.440265] bond0: (slave veth2): invalid new link 1 on slave [ 106.648276] bond0: (slave veth2): link status definitely down, disabling slave [ 107.480271] bond0: (slave veth2): link status up, enabling it in 200 ms [ 107.480288] bond0: (slave veth2): invalid new link 3 on slave [ 107.688302] bond0: (slave veth2): link status definitely up, 10000 Mbps full duplex Let's handle BOND_LINK_{FAIL, BACK} as valid link states. Fixes: 1899bb325149 ("bonding: fix state transition issue in link monitoring") Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-b4-bond_updelay-v1-2-f72eb2e454d0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bonding: do not set usable_slaves for broadcast mode

2026-03-07T00:25:16Z

After commit e0caeb24f538 ("net: bonding: update the slave array for broadcast mode"), broadcast mode will also set all_slaves and usable_slaves during bond_enslave(). But if we also set updelay, during enslave, the slave init state will be BOND_LINK_BACK. And later bond_update_slave_arr() will alloc usable_slaves but add nothing. This will cause bond_miimon_inspect() to have ignore_updelay always true. So the updelay will be always ignored. e.g. [ 6.498368] bond0: (slave veth2): link status definitely down, disabling slave [ 7.536371] bond0: (slave veth2): link status up, enabling it in 0 ms [ 7.536402] bond0: (slave veth2): link status definitely up, 10000 Mbps full duplex To fix it, we can either always call bond_update_slave_arr() on every place when link changes. Or, let's just not set usable_slaves for broadcast mode. Fixes: e0caeb24f538 ("net: bonding: update the slave array for broadcast mode") Reported-by: Liang Li Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-b4-bond_updelay-v1-1-f72eb2e454d0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bpf/bonding: reject vlan+srcmac xmit_hash_policy change when XDP is loaded

2026-03-03T09:47:37Z

bond_option_mode_set() already rejects mode changes that would make a loaded XDP program incompatible via bond_xdp_check(). However, bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set() has no such guard. For 802.3ad and balance-xor modes, bond_xdp_check() returns false when xmit_hash_policy is vlan+srcmac, because the 802.1q payload is usually absent due to hardware offload. This means a user can: 1. Attach a native XDP program to a bond in 802.3ad/balance-xor mode with a compatible xmit_hash_policy (e.g. layer2+3). 2. Change xmit_hash_policy to vlan+srcmac while XDP remains loaded. This leaves bond->xdp_prog set but bond_xdp_check() now returning false for the same device. When the bond is later destroyed, dev_xdp_uninstall() calls bond_xdp_set(dev, NULL, NULL) to remove the program, which hits the bond_xdp_check() guard and returns -EOPNOTSUPP, triggering: WARN_ON(dev_xdp_install(dev, mode, bpf_op, NULL, 0, NULL)) Fix this by rejecting xmit_hash_policy changes to vlan+srcmac when an XDP program is loaded on a bond in 802.3ad or balance-xor mode. commit 39a0876d595b ("net, bonding: Disallow vlan+srcmac with XDP") introduced bond_xdp_check() which returns false for 802.3ad/balance-xor modes when xmit_hash_policy is vlan+srcmac. The check was wired into bond_xdp_set() to reject XDP attachment with an incompatible policy, but the symmetric path -- preventing xmit_hash_policy from being changed to an incompatible value after XDP is already loaded -- was left unguarded in bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set(). Note: commit 094ee6017ea0 ("bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode") later added a similar guard to bond_option_mode_set(), but bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set() remained unprotected. Reported-by: syzbot+5a287bcdc08104bc3132@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6995aff6.050a0220.2eeac1.014e.GAE@google.com/T/ Fixes: 39a0876d595b ("net, bonding: Disallow vlan+srcmac with XDP") Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226080306.98766-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00Z

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex() interface. As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather than 'objs*'. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook