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Re: [PATCH net 3/5] vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()

From: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Date: 2026-07-23 16:41:10
Also in: stable

On 23/07/2026 15:42, Eric Dumazet wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The neighbour hardware address n->ha can be updated asynchronously by the
neighbour subsystem, protected by n->ha_lock seqlock. Reading n->ha without
holding the seqlock loop can lead to torn reads or reading a partially updated
MAC address.

Use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit() to safely copy n->ha under
read_seqbegin()/read_seqretry() lock protection before using it.

Note that arp_reduce() and neigh_reduce() seem to have the same issue
left for future patches.

Fixes: e4f67addf158 ("add DOVE extensions for VXLAN")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
  drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 6 ++++--
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index fb4a706cd5786d1937b1922acced31ffdb187c2f..10dd19eec09e266197ee51330a652f4e76c9643a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -2159,9 +2159,11 @@ static bool route_shortcircuit(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
  	}
  
  	if (n) {
+		u8 haddr[ETH_ALEN];
  		bool diff;
  
-		diff = !ether_addr_equal(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, n->ha);
+		neigh_ha_snapshot(haddr, n, dev);
+		diff = !ether_addr_equal_unaligned(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, haddr);
  		if (diff) {
  			if (skb_cow_head(skb, 0)) {
  				neigh_release(n);
@@ -2169,7 +2171,7 @@ static bool route_shortcircuit(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
  			}
  			memcpy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_source, eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest,
  				dev->addr_len);
-			memcpy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, n->ha, dev->addr_len);
+			memcpy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, haddr, dev->addr_len);
  		}
  		neigh_release(n);
  		return diff;
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
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