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Re: [PATCH net-next 2/9] vxlan: vnifilter: free vxlan_vni_group via RCU in vxlan_vnigroup_uninit()

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Date: 2026-09-05 04:52:09

On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 5:08 AM Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:
vxlan->vnigrp is an RCU-protected pointer accessed locklessly under
rcu_read_lock() in vxlan_vnifilter_dump_dev().

Currently, vxlan_vnigroup_uninit() frees struct vxlan_vni_group
synchronously via kfree(vg). If a VXLAN device is deleted concurrently
with an RTM_GETTUNNEL dump, vxlan_vnifilter_dump_dev() can suffer a
use-after-free when reading vg->num_vnis or walking vg->vni_list.
In unregister_netdevice_many_notify(), does synchronize_net() after
unlist_netdevice() wait for the reader to complete before ->ndo_uninit() ?

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Fix this by clearing vxlan->vnigrp with rcu_assign_pointer() and freeing
vg after an RCU grace period using kfree_rcu().

Fixes: f9c4bb0b245c ("vxlan: vni filtering support on collect metadata device")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c | 3 ++-
 include/net/vxlan.h                 | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
index dd94085e088656d27b62420a5c8c95c609510a4c..ddfa24ad16f9303d7796e4a199b16dd5cc62047c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
@@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ void vxlan_vnigroup_uninit(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan)
        struct vxlan_vni_group *vg;

        vg = rtnl_dereference(vxlan->vnigrp);
+       rcu_assign_pointer(vxlan->vnigrp, NULL);
        list_for_each_entry_safe(v, tmp, &vg->vni_list, vlist) {
                rhashtable_remove_fast(&vg->vni_hash, &v->vnode,
                                       vxlan_vni_rht_params);
@@ -914,7 +915,7 @@ void vxlan_vnigroup_uninit(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan)
                call_rcu(&v->rcu, vxlan_vni_node_rcu_free);
        }
        rhashtable_destroy(&vg->vni_hash);
-       kfree(vg);
+       kfree_rcu(vg, rcu);
 }

 int vxlan_vnigroup_init(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan)
diff --git a/include/net/vxlan.h b/include/net/vxlan.h
index 7b82075055237058d231d636698f640c75c521af..f41db72e9229d9cc8460ddbe265c6cd07890032d 100644
--- a/include/net/vxlan.h
+++ b/include/net/vxlan.h
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ struct vxlan_vni_group {
        struct rhashtable       vni_hash;
        struct list_head        vni_list;
        u32                     num_vnis;
+       struct rcu_head         rcu;
 };

 /* Pseudo network device */
--
2.55.0.970.g62bdec98f9-goog
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