Subject: [PATCH net 08/10] netfilter: nft_fib_ipv6: handle routes via external nexthop

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 12:42:55 +0200

From: Jiayuan Chen <[email-masked]>

fib6_info has a union:

    union {
        struct list_head fib6_siblings;
        struct list_head nh_list;
    };

Old-style multipath (ip -6 route add ... nexthop ... nexthop ...) uses
fib6_siblings.  External nexthop (ip -6 route add ... nhid N) uses
nh_list, linked into &nh->f6i_list.

nft_fib6_info_nh_uses_dev() blindly walks &rt->fib6_siblings, causing
an OOB read past the struct nexthop slab when rt->nh is set:

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nft_fib6_eval+0x1362/0x16c0
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff888103a099d0 by task ping/386

  CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 386 Comm: ping Not tainted 7.1.0-rc3+ #251 PREEMPT
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x76/0xa0
   print_report+0xd1/0x5f0
   kasan_report+0xe7/0x130
   __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x30
   nft_fib6_eval+0x1362/0x16c0
   nft_do_chain+0x279/0x18c0
   nft_do_chain_ipv6+0x1a8/0x230
   nf_hook_slow+0xad/0x200
   ipv6_rcv+0x152/0x380
   __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x118/0x1c0
  ==================================================================

Branch by route shape: when rt->nh is set, walk via
nexthop_for_each_fib6_nh() (also covers nh groups, which the original
code missed); otherwise walk fib6_siblings, guarded by READ_ONCE() of
rt->fib6_nsiblings as required by commit 31d7d67ba127 ("ipv6: annotate
data-races around rt->fib6_nsiblings").

Fixes: 1c32b24c234b ("netfilter: nft_fib_ipv6: switch to fib6_lookup")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
---
 net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c
index 5e192a446ec8..c0a0075e2590 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c
@@ -160,16 +160,32 @@ static bool nft_fib6_info_nh_dev_match(const struct net_device *nh_dev,
 	       l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu(nh_dev) == dev->ifindex;
 }
 
+static int nft_fib6_nh_match_dev_cb(struct fib6_nh *nh, void *arg)
+{
+	const struct net_device *dev = arg;
+
+	return nft_fib6_info_nh_dev_match(nh->fib_nh_dev, dev);
+}
+
 static bool nft_fib6_info_nh_uses_dev(struct fib6_info *rt,
 				      const struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	const struct net_device *nh_dev;
 	struct fib6_info *iter;
 
+	/* External nexthop: fib6_siblings slot aliases nh_list, walk via nh. */
+	if (rt->nh)
+		return nexthop_for_each_fib6_nh(rt->nh,
+						nft_fib6_nh_match_dev_cb,
+						(void *)dev);
+
 	nh_dev = fib6_info_nh_dev(rt);
 	if (nft_fib6_info_nh_dev_match(nh_dev, dev))
 		return true;
 
+	if (!READ_ONCE(rt->fib6_nsiblings))
+		return false;
+
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(iter, &rt->fib6_siblings, fib6_siblings) {
 		nh_dev = fib6_info_nh_dev(iter);
 
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