From 3bc179bc7146c26c9dff75d2943d10528274e301 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Breno Leitao Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:31:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] netpoll: fix IPv6 local-address corruption netpoll_setup() decides whether to auto-populate the local source address by testing np->local_ip.ip, which only inspects the first 4 bytes of the union inet_addr storage. For an IPv6 netpoll whose caller-supplied local address has a zero high-32 bits (::1, ::, IPv4-mapped ::ffff:a.b.c.d, etc.), this misdetects the address as unset (which they are not, but the first 4 bytes are empty), calls netpoll_take_ipv6() and overwrites it with whatever matching link-local/global address the device happens to expose first. Introduce a helper netpoll_local_ip_unset() that picks the correct family-aware test (ipv6_addr_any() for IPv6, !.ip for IPv4) and use it from netpoll_setup(). Reproducer is something like: echo "::2" > local_ip echo 1 > enabled cat local_ip # before this fix: 2001:db8::1 (caller-supplied ::2 was clobbered) # after this fix: ::2 Fixes: b7394d2429c1 ("netpoll: prepare for ipv6") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424-netpoll_fix-v1-1-3a55348c625f@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/core/netpoll.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index cd74beffd209..4381e0fc25bf 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -704,6 +704,23 @@ static int netpoll_take_ipv4(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev) return 0; } +/* + * Test whether the caller left np->local_ip unset, so that + * netpoll_setup() should auto-populate it from the egress device. + * + * np->local_ip is a union of __be32 (IPv4) and struct in6_addr (IPv6), + * so an IPv6 address whose first 4 bytes are zero (e.g. ::1, ::2, + * IPv4-mapped ::ffff:a.b.c.d) must not be tested via the IPv4 arm — + * doing so would misclassify a caller-supplied address as unset and + * silently overwrite it with whatever address the device exposes. + */ +static bool netpoll_local_ip_unset(const struct netpoll *np) +{ + if (np->ipv6) + return ipv6_addr_any(&np->local_ip.in6); + return !np->local_ip.ip; +} + int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) { struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns; @@ -747,7 +764,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) rtnl_lock(); } - if (!np->local_ip.ip) { + if (netpoll_local_ip_unset(np)) { if (!np->ipv6) { err = netpoll_take_ipv4(np, ndev); if (err)