[PATCH net 1/2] bridge: mcast: Fix a possible use-after-free when removing a bridge port

Ido Schimmel <[email protected]> Sun, 17 May 2026 15:11:21 +0300
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.bridge,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When per-VLAN multicast snooping is enabled, the bridge iterates over
all the bridge ports, disables the per-port multicast context on each
port and enables the per-{port, VLAN} multicast contexts instead. The
reverse happens when per-VLAN multicast snooping is disabled.

When global multicast snooping is enabled, the bridge iterates over all
the bridge ports and enables the per-port multicast context on each
port. The reverse happens when multicast snooping is disabled.

The above scheme can result in a situation where both types of contexts
(per-port and per-{port, VLAN}) are enabled on a single bridge port:

 # ip link add name br1 up type bridge mcast_snooping 1 mcast_querier 1 vlan_filtering 1
 # ip link add name dummy1 up master br1 type dummy
 # ip link set dev br1 type bridge mcast_vlan_snooping 1
 # ip link set dev br1 type bridge mcast_snooping 0
 # ip link set dev br1 type bridge mcast_snooping 1

This is not intended and it is a problem since the commit cited below.
Prior to this commit, when removing a bridge port,
br_multicast_disable_port() would disable the per-port multicast context
and the per-{port, VLAN} multicast contexts would get disabled when
flushing VLANs.

After this commit, br_multicast_disable_port() only disables the
per-port multicast context if per-VLAN multicast snooping is disabled.
If both types of contexts were enabled on the port when it was removed,
the per-port multicast context would remain enabled when freeing the
bridge port, leading to a use-after-free [1].

Fix by preventing the bridge from enabling / disabling the per-port
multicast contexts when toggling global multicast snooping if per-VLAN
multicast snooping is enabled.

[1]
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: ffff88810f8bda78 object type: timer_list hint: br_ip6_multicast_port_query_expired (net/bridge/br_multicast.c:1927)
WARNING: lib/debugobjects.c:629 at debug_print_object+0x1b1/0x3e0, CPU#5: swapper/5/0
[...]
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:1116)
kfree (mm/slub.c:2620 mm/slub.c:6250 mm/slub.c:6565)
kobject_cleanup (lib/kobject.c:689)
rcu_do_batch (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617)
rcu_core (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869)
handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)
__irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:656 kernel/softirq.c:496 kernel/softirq.c:735)
irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:752)
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061 (discriminator 47) arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061 (discriminator 47))
</IRQ>

Fixes: 4b30ae9adb04 ("net: bridge: mcast: re-implement br_multicast_{enable, disable}_port functions")
Reported-by: [email protected]
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/87qznowlfs.ffs@tglx/
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
---
 net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index 881d866d687a..2eef4f3345cd 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -4640,10 +4640,24 @@ static void br_multicast_start_querier(struct net_bridge_mcast *brmctx,
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
-static void br_multicast_del_grps(struct net_bridge *br)
+static void br_multicast_enable_all_ports(struct net_bridge *br)
 {
 	struct net_bridge_port *port;
 
+	if (br_opt_get(br, BROPT_MCAST_VLAN_SNOOPING_ENABLED))
+		return;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(port, &br->port_list, list)
+		__br_multicast_enable_port_ctx(&port->multicast_ctx);
+}
+
+static void br_multicast_disable_all_ports(struct net_bridge *br)
+{
+	struct net_bridge_port *port;
+
+	if (br_opt_get(br, BROPT_MCAST_VLAN_SNOOPING_ENABLED))
+		return;
+
 	list_for_each_entry(port, &br->port_list, list)
 		__br_multicast_disable_port_ctx(&port->multicast_ctx);
 }
@@ -4651,7 +4665,6 @@ static void br_multicast_del_grps(struct net_bridge *br)
 int br_multicast_toggle(struct net_bridge *br, unsigned long val,
 			struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
 {
-	struct net_bridge_port *port;
 	bool change_snoopers = false;
 	int err = 0;
 
@@ -4668,7 +4681,7 @@ int br_multicast_toggle(struct net_bridge *br, unsigned long val,
 	br_opt_toggle(br, BROPT_MULTICAST_ENABLED, !!val);
 	if (!br_opt_get(br, BROPT_MULTICAST_ENABLED)) {
 		change_snoopers = true;
-		br_multicast_del_grps(br);
+		br_multicast_disable_all_ports(br);
 		goto unlock;
 	}
 
@@ -4676,8 +4689,7 @@ int br_multicast_toggle(struct net_bridge *br, unsigned long val,
 		goto unlock;
 
 	br_multicast_open(br);
-	list_for_each_entry(port, &br->port_list, list)
-		__br_multicast_enable_port_ctx(&port->multicast_ctx);
+	br_multicast_enable_all_ports(br);
 
 	change_snoopers = true;
 
-- 
2.54.0