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Message-ID: <aOTkw72FGwaOZcz7@calendula>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:00:35 +0200
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To: Eric Woudstra <ericwouds@...il.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
	bridge@...ts.linux.dev, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 nf] bridge: br_vlan_fill_forward_path_pvid: use
 br_vlan_group_rcu()

On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 10:15:01AM +0200, Eric Woudstra wrote:
> Bug: br_vlan_fill_forward_path_pvid uses br_vlan_group() instead of
> br_vlan_group_rcu(). Correct this bug.
> 
> Fixes: bcf2766b1377 ("net: bridge: resolve forwarding path for VLAN tag actions in bridge devices")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Woudstra <ericwouds@...il.com>

Patch looks good.

dev_fill_forward_path() is assumed to run under RCU.

> ---
> 
> Also see the debugging info send by Florian in mailing:
> "[RFC PATCH v3 nf-next] selftests: netfilter: Add bridge_fastpath.sh"
> 
> net/bridge/br_private.h:1627 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
> 
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 
> rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
> 7 locks held by socat/410:
>  #0: ffff88800d7a9c90 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: inet_stream_connect+0x43/0xa0
>  #1: ffffffff9a779900 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: __ip_queue_xmit+0x62/0x1830
>  #2: ffffffff9a779900 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: ip_output+0x57/0x3c0
>  #3: ffffffff9a779900 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: ip_finish_output2+0x263/0x17d0
>  #4: ffffffff9a779900 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: process_backlog+0x38a/0x14b0
>  #5: ffffffff9a779900 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: netif_receive_skb_internal+0x83/0x330
>  #6: ffffffff9a779900 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: nf_hook.constprop.0+0x8a/0x440
> 
> stack backtrace:
> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 410 Comm: socat Not tainted 6.17.0-rc7-virtme #1 PREEMPT(full)
> Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> Call Trace:
>  <IRQ>
>  dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0
>  lockdep_rcu_suspicious.cold+0x4f/0xb1
>  br_vlan_fill_forward_path_pvid+0x32c/0x410 [bridge]
>  br_fill_forward_path+0x7a/0x4d0 [bridge]
>  ...
> 
>  net/bridge/br_vlan.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
> index 939a3aa78d5c..54993a05037c 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
> @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ void br_vlan_fill_forward_path_pvid(struct net_bridge *br,
>  	if (!br_opt_get(br, BROPT_VLAN_ENABLED))
>  		return;
>  
> -	vg = br_vlan_group(br);
> +	vg = br_vlan_group_rcu(br);
>  
>  	if (idx >= 0 &&
>  	    ctx->vlan[idx].proto == br->vlan_proto) {
> -- 
> 2.50.0
> 

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