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

On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:34:59 +0200, Doruk Tan Ozturk [off-list ref] wrote:

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>

Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <redacted>

Thanks!