[PATCH 5.10 044/161] macvlan: Fix leaking skb in source mode with nodst option

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-04T14:44:50Z

From: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>

commit e16b859872b87650bb55b12cca5a5fcdc49c1442 upstream.

The MACVLAN receive handler clones skbs to all matching source MACVLAN
interfaces, before it passes the packet along to match on destination
based MACVLANs.

When using the MACVLAN nodst mode, passing the packet to destination based
MACVLANs is omitted and the handler returns with RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED.
However, the passed skb is not freed, leaking for any packet processed
with the nodst option.

Properly free the skb when consuming packets to fix that leak.

Fixes: 427f0c8c194b ("macvlan: Add nodst option to macvlan type source")
Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -464,8 +464,10 @@ static rx_handler_result_t macvlan_handl
return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED;
*pskb = skb;
eth = eth_hdr(skb);
- if (macvlan_forward_source(skb, port, eth->h_source))
+ if (macvlan_forward_source(skb, port, eth->h_source)) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED;
+ }
src = macvlan_hash_lookup(port, eth->h_source);
if (src && src->mode != MACVLAN_MODE_VEPA &&
src->mode != MACVLAN_MODE_BRIDGE) {
@@ -484,8 +486,10 @@ static rx_handler_result_t macvlan_handl
return RX_HANDLER_PASS;
}

- if (macvlan_forward_source(skb, port, eth->h_source))
+ if (macvlan_forward_source(skb, port, eth->h_source)) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED;
+ }
if (macvlan_passthru(port))
vlan = list_first_or_null_rcu(&port->vlans,
struct macvlan_dev, list);