Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net: bridge: use a stable FDB dst snapshot in RCU readers

On 13/04/2026 12:08, Ren Wei wrote:
> From: Zhengchuan Liang <[email protected]>
> 
> Local FDB entries can be rewritten in place by `fdb_delete_local()`, which
> updates `f->dst` to another port or to `NULL` while keeping the entry
> alive. Several bridge RCU readers inspect `f->dst`, including
> `br_fdb_fillbuf()` through the `brforward_read()` sysfs path.
> 
> These readers currently load `f->dst` multiple times and can therefore
> observe inconsistent values across the check and later dereference.
> In `br_fdb_fillbuf()`, this means a concurrent local-FDB update can change
> `f->dst` after the NULL check and before the `port_no` dereference,
> leading to a NULL-ptr-deref.
> 
> Fix this by taking a single `READ_ONCE()` snapshot of `f->dst` in each
> affected RCU reader and using that snapshot for the rest of the access
> sequence. Also publish the in-place `f->dst` updates in `fdb_delete_local()`
> with `WRITE_ONCE()` so the readers and writer use matching access patterns.
> 
> Fixes: 960b589f86c7 ("bridge: Properly check if local fdb entry can be deleted in br_fdb_change_mac_address")
> Cc: [email protected]
> Reported-by: Yifan Wu <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Juefei Pu <[email protected]>
> Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Xin Liu <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Ren Wei <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Zhengchuan Liang <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <[email protected]>
> ---
>   net/bridge/br_arp_nd_proxy.c |  8 +++++---
>   net/bridge/br_fdb.c          | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>   2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 

Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>