android16-6.12 December 2025 release 34

Artifacts:
  https://ci.android.com/builds/submitted/15125836/kernel_aarch64/latest
UPSTREAM: dst: fix races in rt6_uncached_list_del() and rt_del_uncached_list()

[ Upstream commit 9a6f0c4d5796ab89b5a28a890ce542344d58bd69 ]

syzbot was able to crash the kernel in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev()
in an interesting way [1]

Crash happens in list_del_init()/INIT_LIST_HEAD() while writing
list->prev, while the prior write on list->next went well.

static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list)
{
	WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list); // This went well
	WRITE_ONCE(list->prev, list); // Crash, @list has been freed.
}

Issue here is that rt6_uncached_list_del() did not attempt to lock
ul->lock, as list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached) returned
true because the WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list) happened on the other CPU.

We might use list_del_init_careful() and list_empty_careful(),
or make sure rt6_uncached_list_del() always grabs the spinlock
whenever rt->dst.rt_uncached_list has been set.

A similar fix is neeed for IPv4.

[1]

 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020
Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880294cfa78 by task kworker/u8:14/3450

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3450 Comm: kworker/u8:14 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
  print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
  kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
  INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline]
  list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline]
  rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline]
  rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020
  addrconf_ifdown+0x143/0x18a0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3853
 addrconf_notify+0x1bc/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
  notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85
  call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
  call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
  netif_close_many+0x29c/0x410 net/core/dev.c:1785
  unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0xb50/0x2330 net/core/dev.c:12353
  ops_exit_rtnl_list net/core/net_namespace.c:187 [inline]
  ops_undo_list+0x3dc/0x990 net/core/net_namespace.c:248
  cleanup_net+0x4de/0x7b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:696
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 803:
  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
  unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
  kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
  slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
  dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89
  ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline]
  icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333
  mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844
  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Freed by task 20:
  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
  kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
  poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
  __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
  kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
  slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
  slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
  kmem_cache_free+0x18f/0x8d0 mm/slub.c:6781
  dst_destroy+0x235/0x350 net/core/dst.c:121
  rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]
  rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857 [inline]
  rcu_cpu_kthread+0xba5/0x1af0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2945
  smpboot_thread_fn+0x542/0xa60 kernel/smpboot.c:160
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Last potentially related work creation:
  kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
  kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
  __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3119 [inline]
  call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3239
  refdst_drop include/net/dst.h:266 [inline]
  skb_dst_drop include/net/dst.h:278 [inline]
  skb_release_head_state+0x71/0x360 net/core/skbuff.c:1156
  skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1180 [inline]
  __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1196 [inline]
  sk_skb_reason_drop+0xe9/0x170 net/core/skbuff.c:1234
  kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline]
  tcf_kfree_skb_list include/net/sch_generic.h:1127 [inline]
  __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4260 [inline]
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x26aa/0x3210 net/core/dev.c:4785
  NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
  ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
  NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
  mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855
  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880294cfa00
 which belongs to the cache ip6_dst_cache of size 232
The buggy address is located 120 bytes inside of
 freed 232-byte region [ffff8880294cfa00, ffff8880294cfae8)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x294cf
memcg:ffff88803536b781
flags: 0x80000000000000(node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000000 ffff88802ff1c8c0 ffffea0000bf2bc0 dead000000000006
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000800c000c 00000000f5000000 ffff88803536b781
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 9, tgid 9 (kworker/0:0), ts 91119585830, free_ts 91088628818
  set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
  post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
  prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
  get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
  __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
  alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
  alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
  allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
  new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
  ___slab_alloc+0xb10/0x13e0 mm/slub.c:4656
  __slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4779
  __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x101/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
  dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89
  ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline]
  icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333
  mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844
  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
page last free pid 5859 tgid 5859 stack trace:
  reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
  free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
  __free_frozen_pages+0xfe1/0x1170 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
  discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline]
  __put_partials+0x149/0x170 mm/slub.c:3886
  __slab_free+0x2af/0x330 mm/slub.c:5952
  qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
  qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
  kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
  kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
  slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
  getname_flags+0xb8/0x540 fs/namei.c:146
  getname include/linux/fs.h:2498 [inline]
  do_sys_openat2+0xbc/0x200 fs/open.c:1426
  do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
  __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
  __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
  __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1447
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

Fixes: 8d0b94afdca8 ("ipv6: Keep track of DST_NOCACHE routes in case of iface down/unregister")
Fixes: 78df76a065ae ("ipv4: take rt_uncached_lock only if needed")
Reported-by: syzbot+179fc225724092b8b2b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6964cdf2.050a0220.eaf7.009d.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112103825.3810713-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Bug: 496410777
Bug: 497583238
Change-Id: I3c6ec79e42313b9befd025e7361a6308947218ae
(cherry picked from commit f24a52948c95e02facbca2b3b6eb5a225e27eb01)
Signed-off-by: wei li <sirius.liwei@honor.corp-partner.google.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2dda9e2ebc9a2e9ef643079330d925f71198e0bf)
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README.md

How do I submit patches to Android Common Kernels

  1. BEST: Make all of your changes to upstream Linux. If appropriate, backport to the stable releases. These patches will be merged automatically in the corresponding common kernels. If the patch is already in upstream Linux, post a backport of the patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.

    • Do not send patches upstream that contain only symbol exports. To be considered for upstream Linux, additions of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() require an in-tree modular driver that uses the symbol -- so include the new driver or changes to an existing driver in the same patchset as the export.
    • When sending patches upstream, the commit message must contain a clear case for why the patch is needed and beneficial to the community. Enabling out-of-tree drivers or functionality is not a persuasive case.
  2. LESS GOOD: Develop your patches out-of-tree (from an upstream Linux point-of-view). Unless these are fixing an Android-specific bug, these are very unlikely to be accepted unless they have been coordinated with kernel-team@android.com. If you want to proceed, post a patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.

Common Kernel patch requirements

  • All patches must conform to the Linux kernel coding standards and pass scripts/checkpatch.pl
  • Patches shall not break gki_defconfig or allmodconfig builds for arm, arm64, x86, x86_64 architectures (see https://source.android.com/setup/build/building-kernels)
  • If the patch is not merged from an upstream branch, the subject must be tagged with the type of patch: UPSTREAM:, BACKPORT:, FROMGIT:, FROMLIST:, or ANDROID:.
  • All patches must have a Change-Id: tag (see https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-changeid.html)
  • If an Android bug has been assigned, there must be a Bug: tag.
  • All patches must have a Signed-off-by: tag by the author and the submitter

Additional requirements are listed below based on patch type

Requirements for backports from mainline Linux: UPSTREAM:, BACKPORT:

  • If the patch is a cherry-pick from Linux mainline with no changes at all
    • tag the patch subject with UPSTREAM:.
    • add upstream commit information with a (cherry picked from commit ...) line
    • Example:
      • if the upstream commit message is
        important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
  • then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
        UPSTREAM: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        (cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
  • If the patch requires any changes from the upstream version, tag the patch with BACKPORT: instead of UPSTREAM:.
    • use the same tags as UPSTREAM:
    • add comments about the changes under the (cherry picked from commit ...) line
    • Example:
        BACKPORT: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        (cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
        [joe: Resolved minor conflict in drivers/foo/bar.c ]
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>

Requirements for other backports: FROMGIT:, FROMLIST:,

  • If the patch has been merged into an upstream maintainer tree, but has not yet been merged into Linux mainline
    • tag the patch subject with FROMGIT:
    • add info on where the patch came from as (cherry picked from commit <sha1> <repo> <branch>). This must be a stable maintainer branch (not rebased, so don't use linux-next for example).
    • if changes were required, use BACKPORT: FROMGIT:
    • Example:
      • if the commit message in the maintainer tree is
        important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
  • then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
        FROMGIT: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        (cherry picked from commit 878a2fd9de10b03d11d2f622250285c7e63deace
         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/foo/bar.git test-branch)
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
  • If the patch has been submitted to LKML, but not accepted into any maintainer tree
    • tag the patch subject with FROMLIST:
    • add a Link: tag with a link to the submittal on lore.kernel.org
    • add a Bug: tag with the Android bug (required for patches not accepted into a maintainer tree)
    • if changes were required, use BACKPORT: FROMLIST:
    • Example:
        FROMLIST: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190619171517.GA17557@someone.com/
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
  • If a patch has been submitted to the community, but rejected, do NOT use the FROMLIST: tag to try to hide this fact. Use the ANDROID: tag as described below as this must be considered as an Android-specific submission, not an upstream submission as the community will not accept these changes as-is.

Requirements for Android-specific patches: ANDROID:

  • If the patch is fixing a bug to Android-specific code
    • tag the patch subject with ANDROID:
    • add a Fixes: tag that cites the patch with the bug
    • Example:
        ANDROID: fix android-specific bug in foobar.c

        This is the detailed description of the important fix

        Fixes: 1234abcd2468 ("foobar: add cool feature")
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
  • If the patch is a new feature
    • tag the patch subject with ANDROID:
    • add a Bug: tag with the Android bug (required for android-specific features)