Subject: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 11:45:48 -0800

l3mdev_master_dev_rcu() can return NULL when the slave device is being
un-slaved from a VRF. All other callers deal with this, but we lost
the fallback to loopback in ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() -> ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()
with commit 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on
device with address").

  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f]
  RIP: 0010:ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc (net/ipv6/route.c:1418)
  Call Trace:
   ip6_pol_route (net/ipv6/route.c:2318)
   fib6_rule_lookup (net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:115)
   ip6_route_output_flags (net/ipv6/route.c:2607)
   vrf_process_v6_outbound (drivers/net/vrf.c:437)

I was tempted to rework the un-slaving code to clear the flag first
and insert synchronize_rcu() before we remove the upper. But looks like
the explicit fallback to loopback_dev is an established pattern.
And I guess avoiding the synchronize_rcu() is nice, too.

Fixes: 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on device with address")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
---
now that NIPA is not full of the tc-action.sh crashes this 1 in ~30 runs
crash in fcnal_ipv6.sh pops out quite clearly.

CC: [email-masked]
---
 net/ipv6/route.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 85df25c36409..7db0c837196c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1063,7 +1063,8 @@ static struct net_device *ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu(const struct fib6_result *res)
 		 */
 		if (netif_is_l3_slave(dev) &&
 		    !rt6_need_strict(&res->f6i->fib6_dst.addr))
-			dev = l3mdev_master_dev_rcu(dev);
+			dev = l3mdev_master_dev_rcu(dev) ? :
+			      dev_net(dev)->loopback_dev;
 		else if (!netif_is_l3_master(dev))
 			dev = dev_net(dev)->loopback_dev;
 		/* last case is netif_is_l3_master(dev) is true in which
-- 
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