kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/net/ipv6, branch master

Merge branch 'main' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git

2026-07-10T12:00:58+00:00

# Conflicts: # MAINTAINERS

Merge branch 'master' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec.git

2026-07-10T10:46:10+00:00

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-07-10T08:20:05+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.2-rc3). Conflicts: tools/testing/selftests/net/lib.sh dd6a23bac306b ("selftests: net: make busywait timeout clock portable") 895bad9cc4cec ("selftests: net: make busywait timeout clock portable") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

netfilter: handle unreadable frags

2026-07-08T13:33:44+00:00

sashiko reports: When an skb with unreadable fragments (such as from devmem TCP, where skb_frags_readable(skb) returns false) is processed by the u32 module, skb_copy_bits() will safely return a negative error code [..] xt_u32: bail out with hotdrop in this case. gather_frags: return -1, just as if we had no fragment header. nfnetlink_queue: restrict to the linear part. nfnetlink_log: restrict to the linear part. v2: - skb_zerocopy helpers don't copy readable flag, i.e. nfnetlink_queue is broken too xt_u32 shouldn't return true if hotdrop was set. Fixes: 65249feb6b3d ("net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Mina Almasry Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

netfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag

2026-07-08T13:22:03+00:00

nf_ct_frag6_reasm() slides the packet head forward to drop the IPv6 fragment header and then unconditionally advances skb->mac_header: skb->mac_header += sizeof(struct frag_hdr); On the NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT defrag path the skb has no link-layer header yet, so skb->mac_header is still the "not set" sentinel (u16)~0U. Adding sizeof(struct frag_hdr) wraps it to a small value (0xffff + 8 == 7), after which skb_mac_header_was_set() wrongly reports a MAC header is present and skb_mac_header() points into the headroom. The reassembler has done this unconditional add since it was introduced; it was harmless while mac_header was a bare pointer, but wrong once mac_header became a u16 offset whose unset state is the ~0U sentinel tested by skb_mac_header_was_set(). The sibling net/ipv6/reassembly.c does the same relocation and does guard the adjustment; mirror the guard here. Fixes: 9fb9cbb1082d ("[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Weiming Shi Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

ipv6: mcast: Fix potential UAF in MLD delayed work

2026-07-08T12:41:01+00:00

A race condition exists between device teardown and incoming MLD query processing, leading to a Use-After-Free in the MLD delayed work. During device destruction, the primary reference to inet6_dev is dropped, which can drop its refcount to 0. The actual freeing of inet6_dev memory is deferred via RCU. Concurrently, the packet receive path runs under RCU read lock and obtains the inet6_dev pointer. Because the memory is RCU-protected, CPU-0 can safely dereference inet6_dev even if its refcount has hit 0. However, if CPU-0 calls igmp6_event_query() and schedules delayed work, it attempts to acquire a reference using in6_dev_hold(). This increments the refcount from 0 to 1, triggering a "refcount_t: addition on 0" warning. Since the inet6_dev memory is still scheduled to be freed after the RCU grace period, the device is freed while the work is still scheduled. When the work runs, it accesses the freed memory, causing a kernel panic. Fix this by using refcount_inc_not_zero() (via a new helper in6_dev_hold_safe()) to prevent acquiring a reference if the device is already being destroyed. If the refcount is 0, we do not schedule the work. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260705181756.963063-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

xfrm6: clear dst.dev on error to avoid double netdev_put in xfrm6_fill_dst()

2026-07-06T06:29:08+00:00

On the error path where in6_dev_get(dev) returns NULL, xfrm6_fill_dst() releases the device reference with netdev_put() but leaves xdst->u.dst.dev set. dst_destroy() later calls netdev_put(dst->dev) again, so the same net_device reference is released twice, underflowing its refcount (ref_tracker WARNING + "unregister_netdevice: waiting for to become free"). Clear xdst->u.dst.dev after the netdev_put(), the same way the XFRM device-offload paths xfrm_dev_state_add() and xfrm_dev_policy_add() in net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c NULL ->dev when releasing the reference on error. ref_tracker: reference already released. ref_tracker: allocated in: xfrm6_fill_dst (net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:86) ... udpv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/udp.c:1696) ... ref_tracker: freed in: xfrm6_fill_dst (net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:90) ... WARNING: lib/ref_tracker.c:322 at ref_tracker_free+0x58b/0x780 dst_destroy (net/core/dst.c:115) rcu_core handle_softirqs ... Fixes: 84c4a9dfbf43 ("xfrm6: release dev before returning error") Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert

netfilter: ip6tables: mark malformed IPv6 extension headers for hotdrop

2026-07-03T12:45:21+00:00

The ah, hbh and rt matches check that the fixed extension header is present, then use the header length field to derive the advertised extension header length for matching. For the ah match, add the missing advertised-length check. For hbh and rt, update the existing advertised-length checks. In all three cases, set hotdrop to true before returning false when the advertised extension header length exceeds the available skb data. Returning false treats the packet as a rule mismatch. Set hotdrop to true and drop malformed packets so they cannot bypass rules intended to drop packets with these IPv6 extension headers. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Zhixing Chen Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

net: ipv6: report multicast group user count

2026-07-03T06:50:44+00:00

The previous patch added IFA_MC_USERS and emits it for IPv4 multicast groups. Add the same snapshot attribute to IPv6 RTM_GETMULTICAST replies and entry-lifecycle notifications, carrying ifmcaddr6::mca_users. This makes the multicast rtnetlink ABI symmetric across IPv4 and IPv6 and gives userspace the same user count that /proc/net/igmp6 exposes. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630110207.37841-3-sigefriedhyy@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-07-03T05:46:27+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.2-rc2). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: MAINTAINERS: 56114690ff3c ("MAINTAINERS: Update Marvell octeontx2 driver maintainers") eb56577ae9a5 ("ehea: remove the ehea driver") net/core/netpoll.c: 45f1458a8501 ("netpoll: fix a use-after-free on shutdown path") 84c0ff1efb62 ("netpoll: do not warn when the best-effort pool refill fails") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni