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[PATCH net v6 4/7] net: ip6_tunnel: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink

From: Maoyi Xie <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-12 09:00:01
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds

ip6_tnl_changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the
tunnel link netns t->net. They differ once the device is created in or
moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl
changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a
caller privileged there but not in t->net can rewrite a tunnel that
lives in t->net.

Gate ip6_tnl_changelink() on rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() at its top,
before any attribute is parsed.

Reported-by: Xiao Liang <redacted>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CABAhCOSzP1vaThGV35_VnsRCb=87_CPjPVsTHbq905k8A+BuUg@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
Fixes: 0bd8762824e7 ("ip6tnl: add x-netns support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
index 9d1037ac082f..922b0feaddf9 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -2102,6 +2102,9 @@ static int ip6_tnl_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	struct ip6_tnl_net *ip6n = net_generic(net, ip6_tnl_net_id);
 	struct ip_tunnel_encap ipencap;
 
+	if (!rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(dev, net))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	if (dev == ip6n->fb_tnl_dev) {
 		if (ip_tunnel_netlink_encap_parms(data, &ipencap)) {
 			/* iproute2 always sets TUNNEL_ENCAP_FLAG_CSUM6, so
-- 
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