When set multicast_query_interval to a large value, the local variable 'time' in br_multicast_send_query() may overflow. If the time is smaller than jiffies, the timer will expire immediately, and then call mod_timer() again, which creates a loop and may trigger the following soft lockup issue: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 221s! [rb_consumer:66] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 66 Comm: rb_consumer Not tainted 6.16.0+ #259 PREEMPT(none) Call Trace: __netdev_alloc_skb+0x2e/0x3a0 br_ip6_multicast_alloc_query+0x212/0x1b70 __br_multicast_send_query+0x376/0xac0 br_multicast_send_query+0x299/0x510 br_multicast_query_expired.constprop.0+0x16d/0x1b0 call_timer_fn+0x3b/0x2a0 __run_timers+0x619/0x950 run_timer_softirq+0x11c/0x220 handle_softirqs+0x18e/0x560 __irq_exit_rcu+0x158/0x1a0 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0x90 This issue can be reproduced with: ip link add br0 type bridge echo 1 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_querier echo 0xffffffffffffffff > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_query_interval ip link set dev br0 up Fix this by comparing expire time with jiffies, to avoid the timer loop. Fixes: 7e4df51eb35d ("bridge: netlink: add support for igmp's intervals") Signed-off-by: Wang Liang --- net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c index 1377f31b719c..631ae3b4c45d 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c @@ -1892,7 +1892,8 @@ static void br_multicast_send_query(struct net_bridge_mcast *brmctx, time += own_query->startup_sent < brmctx->multicast_startup_query_count ? brmctx->multicast_startup_query_interval : brmctx->multicast_query_interval; - mod_timer(&own_query->timer, time); + if (time_is_after_jiffies(time)) + mod_timer(&own_query->timer, time); } static void -- 2.34.1