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net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() from sk_mc_loop()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tue, 4 Aug 2026 15:20:48 +0000 (15:20 +0000)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:10:16 +0000 (13:10 +0200)
commitb8a39a09ae4eaae04309e1e38ed6a1101d967496
treebc5e95fc9a13f765a164b0b3eec5c8d5ed2f9515
parent44871eadd07a7f004aa00cb87399461eea08c630
net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() from sk_mc_loop()

sk_mc_loop() can be called for sockets that are neither AF_INET
nor AF_INET6 (e.g. AF_PACKET sockets when sending packets via raw/packet
socket over virtual devices such as VRF or ipvlan).

In such cases, sk_family is not AF_INET/AF_INET6 and sk_mc_loop() falls
through the switch statement and triggers WARN_ON_ONCE(1).

Non-INET sockets do not support IP_MULTICAST_LOOP or IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP
options, so loopback should default to true without generating a warning.

Fixes: f60e5990d9c1 ("ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive dereference inside the stack")
Reported-by: syzbot+22c3218a6fa219e47321@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a72024c.13623e66.bdc14.0019.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804152048.2134341-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
net/core/sock.c