On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 11:06:58AM +0800, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
> From: Jiayuan Chen <[email protected]>
> 
> bond_rr_gen_slave_id() dereferences bond->rr_tx_counter without a NULL
> check. rr_tx_counter is a per-CPU counter only allocated in bond_open()
> when the bond mode is round-robin. If the bond device was never brought
> up, rr_tx_counter remains NULL, causing a null-ptr-deref.
> 
> The XDP redirect path can reach this code even when the bond is not up:
> bpf_master_redirect_enabled_key is a global static key, so when any bond
> device has native XDP attached, the XDP_TX -> xdp_master_redirect()
> interception is enabled for all bond slaves system-wide. This allows the
> path xdp_master_redirect() -> bond_xdp_get_xmit_slave() ->
> bond_xdp_xmit_roundrobin_slave_get() -> bond_rr_gen_slave_id() to be
> reached on a bond that was never opened.
> 
> Fix this by adding a NULL check with unlikely() in bond_rr_gen_slave_id()
> before dereferencing rr_tx_counter. When rr_tx_counter is NULL (bond was
> never opened), fall back to get_random_u32() for slave selection. The
> allocation in bond_open() is kept, with WRITE_ONCE() added to safely
> publish the pointer to the XDP read side. A plain read suffices for the
> !bond->rr_tx_counter guard in bond_open() itself, as bond_open() runs
> under RTNL lock and is the only writer of rr_tx_counter.
> 
> Fixes: 879af96ffd72 ("net, core: Add support for XDP redirection to slave 
> device")
> Reported-by: [email protected]
> Closes: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/T/
> Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

This is Jay's patch + the unlikely change, looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>

Cheers,
 Nik

> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> index 444519078da3..b8ec87625ce3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> @@ -4290,9 +4290,11 @@ static int bond_open(struct net_device *bond_dev)
>       struct slave *slave;
>  
>       if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ROUNDROBIN && !bond->rr_tx_counter) {
> -             bond->rr_tx_counter = alloc_percpu(u32);
> -             if (!bond->rr_tx_counter)
> +             u32 __percpu *rr_tx_tmp = alloc_percpu(u32);
> +
> +             if (!rr_tx_tmp)
>                       return -ENOMEM;
> +             WRITE_ONCE(bond->rr_tx_counter, rr_tx_tmp);
>       }
>  
>       /* reset slave->backup and slave->inactive */
> @@ -4883,6 +4885,9 @@ static u32 bond_rr_gen_slave_id(struct bonding *bond)
>       struct reciprocal_value reciprocal_packets_per_slave;
>       int packets_per_slave = bond->params.packets_per_slave;
>  
> +     if (unlikely(!READ_ONCE(bond->rr_tx_counter)))
> +             return get_random_u32();
> +
>       switch (packets_per_slave) {
>       case 0:
>               slave_id = get_random_u32();
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 

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