[PATCH] vxlan: serialize nexthop fdb_list against cross-device concurrent updates
From: Seungwon Bae <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-01 05:03:07
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networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
struct nexthop.fdb_list is a per-nexthop global list of the vxlan fdb entries that reference an fdb-nexthop. vxlan serializes it only with the per-device vxlan->hash_lock. When two vxlan devices reference the same fdb-nexthop, their entries share one nh->fdb_list but each device takes only its own hash_lock. vxlan_cleanup() (the aging GC timer) runs in softirq with only its device's hash_lock and calls vxlan_fdb_destroy() -> list_del_rcu(&f->nh_list); a concurrent list_add_tail_rcu()/list_del_rcu() from the other device corrupts the shared list, leaving a freed kmalloc-128 struct vxlan_fdb linked on nh->fdb_list (use-after-free later consumed by vxlan_fdb_nh_flush()). On CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST/KASAN this reproduces as: list_del corruption. next->prev should be ..., but was dead000000000122. __list_del_entry_valid_or_report <- vxlan_fdb_destroy <- vxlan_cleanup <- run_timer_softirq BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vxlan_fdb_destroy Serialize all nh->fdb_list mutations with the nexthop's own spinlock (nh->lock), which - unlike rtnl/hash_lock - is usable from the softirq aging path. Lock order is hash_lock -> nh->lock at every mutation site; vxlan_fdb_nh_flush() keeps traversing under rcu_read_lock(). Verified with a KASAN + CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST kernel and an unprivileged (userns+netns) reproducer that runs two vxlan devices churning add + aging-delete on a shared fdb-nexthop: BEFORE = 490 list_del corruptions + slab-use-after-free; AFTER = 0 corruptions, 0 KASAN reports, no deadlock. Signed-off-by: Seungwon Bae <redacted> --- drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index ac88d1c85..2a427e89e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c@@ -843,11 +843,15 @@ static int vxlan_fdb_nh_update(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan, struct vxlan_fdb *fdb, } if (old_nh) { + spin_lock_bh(&old_nh->lock); list_del_rcu(&fdb->nh_list); + spin_unlock_bh(&old_nh->lock); nexthop_put(old_nh); } rcu_assign_pointer(fdb->nh, nh); + spin_lock_bh(&nh->lock); list_add_tail_rcu(&fdb->nh_list, &nh->fdb_list); + spin_unlock_bh(&nh->lock); return 1; err_inval:
@@ -938,6 +942,7 @@ static void vxlan_fdb_free(struct rcu_head *head) static void vxlan_fdb_destroy(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan, struct vxlan_fdb *f, bool do_notify, bool swdev_notify) { + struct nexthop *nh; struct vxlan_rdst *rd; netdev_dbg(vxlan->dev, "delete %pM\n", f->key.eth_addr);
@@ -956,7 +961,14 @@ static void vxlan_fdb_destroy(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan, struct vxlan_fdb *f, hlist_del_init_rcu(&f->fdb_node); rhashtable_remove_fast(&vxlan->fdb_hash_tbl, &f->rhnode, vxlan_fdb_rht_params); - list_del_rcu(&f->nh_list); + nh = rcu_dereference_protected(f->nh, lockdep_is_held(&vxlan->hash_lock)); + if (nh) { + spin_lock_bh(&nh->lock); + list_del_rcu(&f->nh_list); + spin_unlock_bh(&nh->lock); + } else { + list_del_rcu(&f->nh_list); + } call_rcu(&f->rcu, vxlan_fdb_free); }
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