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The reproducer triggers\nthis in both teardown walks, leaving port groups in the bridge mdb with\na dangling ->key.port after del_nbp() frees the port:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mdb_fill_info+0x1191/0x1320\n   __mdb_fill_info+0x1191/0x1320\n   br_mdb_dump+0x594/0xe40\n   rtnl_mdb_dump+0x1cf/0x5d0\n\nUse hlist_del_init_rcu() to unlink the group while preserving ->next.\nbr_multicast_del_pg() and the teardown walks run under\nbr->multicast_lock. The GC worker must acquire the same lock before\ndetaching the group for destruction, so the node remains alive while\nthe walk uses the preserved pointer.\n\nPreserving ->next means a walk can now reach a group that an earlier\niteration already deleted as a side effect. That group is off mp->ports,\nso br_multicast_find_del_pg() would fall through its port scan and hit\nthe trailing WARN_ON(1). Skip such groups at the top of that helper: a\nport group is put on port->mglist when it is created and only unlinked\nwhen it is deleted, so hlist_unhashed() identifies exactly this case.","state":"PUBLISHED","assigner":"Linux","published_at":"2026-10-28 11:17:31","updated_at":"2026-10-31 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