[PATCH net-next 1/9] vxlan: initialize _md in vxlan_xmit_one()
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2026-09-03 12:08:44
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
If a VXLAN device is configured with both VXLAN_F_COLLECT_METADATA and
VXLAN_F_GBP, and a packet is transmitted through it using an external
ip_tunnel_info that lacks the IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT flag, md is left
pointing to the uninitialized _md stack variable:
if (test_bit(IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT, info->key.tun_flags)) {
if (info->options_len < sizeof(*md))
goto drop;
md = ip_tunnel_info_opts(info);
}
Because IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT is not set, md is not updated and remains
pointing to _md. Later, vxlan_build_skb() is called with md, which
eventually calls vxlan_build_gbp_hdr():
if (vxflags & VXLAN_F_GBP)
vxlan_build_gbp_hdr(vxh, md);
Inside vxlan_build_gbp_hdr(), md->gbp is read:
if (!md->gbp)
return;
gbp = (struct vxlanhdr_gbp *)vxh;
...
if (md->gbp & VXLAN_GBP_DONT_LEARN)
gbp->dont_learn = 1;
If the stack contains garbage, this causes:
1) VXLAN_HF_GBP flag to be spuriously set in the VXLAN header.
2) gbp->dont_learn and gbp->policy_applied to be set from stack bits.
3) gbp->policy_id to receive 16 bits of uninitialized kernel stack data,
leaking it onto the wire.
Fix this by zero-initializing _md. If IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT is not
present, md->gbp remains 0, and vxlan_build_gbp_hdr() returns early
without modifying the VXLAN header.
Fixes: ee122c79d422 ("vxlan: Flow based tunneling")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index 459f19f7071e5bafe9e4c57ef8819645c3da7121..6d886b6f2dc1d62f0eb26c9ba310c4feaed9cafd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c@@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct ip_tunnel_key key; struct vxlan_dev *vxlan = netdev_priv(dev); const struct iphdr *old_iph; - struct vxlan_metadata _md; + struct vxlan_metadata _md = {}; struct vxlan_metadata *md = &_md; unsigned int pkt_len = skb->len; __be16 src_port = 0, dst_port;
--
2.55.0.970.g62bdec98f9-goog