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netdev_get_by_index_lock() performs following steps: rcu_lock(); dev = lookup(netns, ifindex); dev_get(dev); rcu_unlock(); [... lock & validate the dev ...] return dev Validation right now only checks if the device is registered but since the lookup is netns-aware we must also protect against the device switching netns right after we dropped the RCU lock. Otherwise the caller in netns1 may get a pointer to a device which has just switched to netns2. We can't hold the lock for the entire netns change process (because of the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier), and there's no existing marking to indicate that the netns is unlisted because of netns move, so add one. AFAIU none of the existing netdev_get_by_index_lock() callers can suffer from this problem (NAPI code double checks the netns membership and other callers are either under rtnl_lock or not ns-sensitive), so this patch does not have to be treated as a fix. Reviewed-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250408195956.412733-2-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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