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[PATCH net v2 1/2] vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink

From: Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-16 20:35:07
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and
the sticky underlay netns vxlan->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 vxlan->net can rewrite a vxlan
device whose underlay lives in vxlan->net.

vxlan_changelink() validates and applies the new configuration against
vxlan->net (vxlan_config_validate(vxlan->net, ...)) and can reopen the
underlay socket in that netns, so the same reasoning as the tunnel
changelink series applies here.

Gate vxlan_changelink() with rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(), at the top of
the op before any attribute is parsed, matching ipgre_changelink() and
the rest of the "require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for
changelink" series.

Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).

Fixes: 8bcdc4f3a20b ("vxlan: add changelink support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: 0sec:multi-model
Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <redacted>
---
v2: correct the Fixes: tag to the commit that added changelink (Fernando Mancera).

 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index 67c367cc5662..d834a4865aec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -4421,6 +4421,9 @@ static int vxlan_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	struct vxlan_rdst *dst;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(dev, vxlan->net))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	dst = &vxlan->default_dst;
 	err = vxlan_nl2conf(tb, data, dev, &conf, true, extack);
 	if (err)
-- 
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