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[PATCH net-next 3/9] ip_tunnel: use WRITE_ONCE in ip_tunnel_encap_setup

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2026-09-07 07:58:53
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds

Update ip_tunnel_encap_setup() to use WRITE_ONCE() when writing
to encap fields (type, sport, dport, flags) and hlen fields.
This ensures that concurrent lockless readers (like fill_info)
do not see torn writes.

Also remove the unsafe memset() on t->encap which could cause
concurrent readers to transiently see zeroed fields.
Removing it also fixes a bug where t->encap was left cleared
even if ip_encap_hlen() failed, resulting in partial configuration.

Fixes: 56328486539d ("net: Changes to ip_tunnel to support foo-over-udp encapsulation")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
index e6bcf01411d0bcd12cc9a88e449d9283c4a83c64..13b5e35e8790b13ed4c87f28d46aa2bafc9ad72c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
@@ -491,19 +491,17 @@ int ip_tunnel_encap_setup(struct ip_tunnel *t,
 {
 	int hlen;
 
-	memset(&t->encap, 0, sizeof(t->encap));
-
 	hlen = ip_encap_hlen(ipencap);
 	if (hlen < 0)
 		return hlen;
 
-	t->encap.type = ipencap->type;
-	t->encap.sport = ipencap->sport;
-	t->encap.dport = ipencap->dport;
-	t->encap.flags = ipencap->flags;
+	WRITE_ONCE(t->encap.type, ipencap->type);
+	WRITE_ONCE(t->encap.sport, ipencap->sport);
+	WRITE_ONCE(t->encap.dport, ipencap->dport);
+	WRITE_ONCE(t->encap.flags, ipencap->flags);
 
-	t->encap_hlen = hlen;
-	t->hlen = t->encap_hlen + t->tun_hlen;
+	WRITE_ONCE(t->encap_hlen, hlen);
+	WRITE_ONCE(t->hlen, hlen + t->tun_hlen);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
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