[PATCH net v3] vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush
From: David Lee <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-10 14:41:18
Also in:
lkml, stable
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Kyle Zeng <redacted>
A non-nexthop FDB entry is expected to have at least one remote while it
remains reachable through the FDB hash table. A filtered bulk flush
violates this invariant when every remote matches: It unlinks the last
remote in vxlan_fdb_dst_destroy() and only afterwards tells vxlan_flush()
to destroy the parent FDB entry.
An RCU reader can find the parent during this interval.
first_remote_rcu() then applies list_entry_rcu() to the empty list head,
producing an invalid remote pointer that the receive learning path can
read from and write to.
When a matching remote is the sole remaining remote, leave it linked and
ask the caller to destroy the entire FDB entry. vxlan_fdb_destroy() keeps
the remote attached while sending the deletion notification and removing
the parent from the lookup structures.
Fixes: c499fccb71cb ("vxlan: vxlan_core: Support FDB flushing by destination VNI")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Codex:gpt-5.5-cyber
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <redacted>
Co-developed-by: David Lee <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David Lee <redacted>
---
Changes in v3:
- Remove remotes_flushed and the redundant final p_destroy_fdb assignment,
as suggested by Ido Schimmel; the caller initializes the flag to false.
Changes in v2:
- Add the net tree prefix to the subject.
- Restore Kyle Zeng as the patch author and correct the sign-off chain.
- Move the research credit below the commit-message separator.
- Add the recipients reported by netdev CI.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260731141311.570187-1-david.lee@trailofbits.com/ (local)
Bug found and triaged by OpenAI Security Research and
validated by Trail of Bits.
Trail of Bits has a reproducer for this bug that triggers a
KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read in vxlan_snoop() and can share if needed.
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index d834a4865..0c42cfd96 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c@@ -3051,18 +3051,19 @@ vxlan_fdb_flush_match_remotes(struct vxlan_fdb *f, struct vxlan_dev *vxlan, const struct vxlan_fdb_flush_desc *desc, bool *p_destroy_fdb) { - bool remotes_flushed = false; struct vxlan_rdst *rd, *tmp; list_for_each_entry_safe(rd, tmp, &f->remotes, list) { if (!vxlan_fdb_flush_remote_matches(desc, rd)) continue; + if (list_is_singular(&f->remotes)) { + *p_destroy_fdb = true; + return; + } + vxlan_fdb_dst_destroy(vxlan, f, rd, true); - remotes_flushed = true; } - - *p_destroy_fdb = remotes_flushed && list_empty(&f->remotes); } /* Purge the forwarding table */
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2.53.0