git: ec76d3f600b5 - main - nd6: Do not allocate an ifaddr for the interface ID in in6_ifadd()
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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:56:55 UTC
The branch main has been updated by rcm:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ec76d3f600b528df7c29d3305e44342f08789fbf
commit ec76d3f600b528df7c29d3305e44342f08789fbf
Author: R. Christian McDonald <rcm@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2026-10-08 23:08:19 +0000
Commit: R. Christian McDonald <rcm@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-10-08 23:08:19 +0000
nd6: Do not allocate an ifaddr for the interface ID in in6_ifadd()
Without a suitable link-local address, in6_ifadd() obtains the
interface identifier from in6_get_ifid(). It wrote the result into a
freshly allocated struct in6_ifaddr, M_NOWAIT since the function runs
in the network epoch, so SLAAC could fail under memory pressure over a
16 byte scratch buffer.
Write the identifier into the on-stack address the rest of the function
uses instead. Zero it first, in6_get_ifid() only fills in the low 64
bits, as the M_ZERO allocation did. Track which path provided the
identifier with a flag instead of a pointer into the ifaddr, so each
path releases its own reference.
Reviewed by: glebius
Fixes: 9e792f7ef729 ("sys/netinet6: Fix SLAAC for interfaces with no /64 LL address")
Fixes: f9fc93690aef ("sys/netinet6: fix memory corruption in in6_ifadd")
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D60488
---
sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c b/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c
index 9d7cd3f832d9..ed31981ec9df 100644
--- a/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c
+++ b/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c
@@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ in6_ifadd(struct nd_prefixctl *pr, int mcast)
struct in6_aliasreq ifra;
struct in6_ifaddr *ia = NULL, *ib = NULL;
int error, plen0;
- struct in6_addr *ifid_addr = NULL, mask, newaddr;
+ struct in6_addr mask, newaddr;
int prefixlen = pr->ndpr_plen;
int updateflags;
char ip6buf[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN];
@@ -1255,47 +1255,39 @@ in6_ifadd(struct nd_prefixctl *pr, int mcast)
if(!in6_get_stableifid(ifp, &newaddr, prefixlen))
return NULL;
} else {
+ bool have_ifid = false;
+
ifa = (struct ifaddr *)in6ifa_ifpforlinklocal(ifp, 0); /* 0 is OK? */
- if (ifa) {
+ if (ifa != NULL) {
ib = (struct in6_ifaddr *)ifa;
- ifid_addr = &ib->ia_addr.sin6_addr;
/* prefixlen + ifidlen must be equal to 128 */
plen0 = in6_mask2len(&ib->ia_prefixmask.sin6_addr, NULL);
- if (prefixlen != plen0) {
- ifa_free(ifa);
- ifid_addr = NULL;
+ if (prefixlen == plen0) {
+ memcpy(&newaddr, &ib->ia_addr.sin6_addr,
+ sizeof(newaddr));
+ have_ifid = true;
+ } else {
nd6log((LOG_DEBUG,
"%s: wrong prefixlen for %s (prefix=%d ifid=%d)\n",
__func__, if_name(ifp), prefixlen, 128 - plen0));
}
+ ifa_free(ifa);
}
- /* No suitable LL address, get the ifid directly */
- if (ifid_addr == NULL) {
- ifa = ifa_alloc(sizeof(struct in6_ifaddr), M_NOWAIT);
- if (ifa != NULL) {
- ib = (struct in6_ifaddr *)ifa;
- ifid_addr = &ib->ia_addr.sin6_addr;
- if(in6_get_ifid(ifp, NULL, ifid_addr) != 0) {
- nd6log((LOG_DEBUG,
- "%s: failed to get ifid for %s\n",
- __func__, if_name(ifp)));
- ifa_free(ifa);
- ifid_addr = NULL;
- }
+ /*
+ * No suitable link-local address, get the ifid directly.
+ * Only the low 64 bits are filled in, zero the rest.
+ */
+ if (!have_ifid) {
+ memset(&newaddr, 0, sizeof(newaddr));
+ if (in6_get_ifid(ifp, NULL, &newaddr) != 0) {
+ nd6log((LOG_INFO,
+ "%s: could not determine ifid for %s\n",
+ __func__, if_name(ifp)));
+ return (NULL);
}
}
-
- if (ifid_addr == NULL) {
- nd6log((LOG_INFO,
- "%s: could not determine ifid for %s\n",
- __func__, if_name(ifp)));
- return NULL;
- }
-
- memcpy(&newaddr, &ib->ia_addr.sin6_addr, sizeof(ib->ia_addr.sin6_addr));
- ifa_free(ifa);
}
IN6_MASK_ADDR(&ifra.ifra_addr.sin6_addr, &mask);