From: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
edumazet@google.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch
Cc: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Liang Li <liali@redhat.com>,
Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] net: vxlan: prevent NULL deref in vxlan_xmit_one
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:26:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251126102627.74223-1-atenart@kernel.org> (raw)
Neither sock4 nor sock6 pointers are guaranteed to be non-NULL in
vxlan_xmit_one, e.g. if the iface is brought down. This can lead to the
following NULL dereference:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:vxlan_xmit_one+0xbb3/0x1580
Call Trace:
vxlan_xmit+0x429/0x610
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x55/0xa0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x6d0/0x7f0
ip_finish_output2+0x24b/0x590
ip_output+0x63/0x110
Mentioned commits changed the code path in vxlan_xmit_one and as a side
effect the sock4/6 pointer validity checks in vxlan(6)_get_route were
lost. Fix this by adding back checks.
Since both commits being fixed were released in the same version (v6.7)
and are strongly related, bundle the fixes in a single commit.
Reported-by: Liang Li <liali@redhat.com>
Fixes: 6f19b2c136d9 ("vxlan: use generic function for tunnel IPv4 route lookup")
Fixes: 2aceb896ee18 ("vxlan: use generic function for tunnel IPv6 route lookup")
Cc: Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
---
Since v1:
- Fixed uninitialized err variable reported by clang [Jakub]
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index a5c55e7e4d79..e957aa12a8a4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -2349,7 +2349,7 @@ void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
int addr_family;
__u8 tos, ttl;
int ifindex;
- int err;
+ int err = 0;
u32 flags = vxlan->cfg.flags;
bool use_cache;
bool udp_sum = false;
@@ -2454,12 +2454,18 @@ void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
rcu_read_lock();
if (addr_family == AF_INET) {
- struct vxlan_sock *sock4 = rcu_dereference(vxlan->vn4_sock);
+ struct vxlan_sock *sock4;
u16 ipcb_flags = 0;
struct rtable *rt;
__be16 df = 0;
__be32 saddr;
+ sock4 = rcu_dereference(vxlan->vn4_sock);
+ if (unlikely(!sock4)) {
+ reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_READY;
+ goto tx_error;
+ }
+
if (!ifindex)
ifindex = sock4->sock->sk->sk_bound_dev_if;
@@ -2534,10 +2540,16 @@ void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
ipcb_flags);
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
} else {
- struct vxlan_sock *sock6 = rcu_dereference(vxlan->vn6_sock);
+ struct vxlan_sock *sock6;
struct in6_addr saddr;
u16 ip6cb_flags = 0;
+ sock6 = rcu_dereference(vxlan->vn6_sock);
+ if (unlikely(!sock6)) {
+ reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_READY;
+ goto tx_error;
+ }
+
if (!ifindex)
ifindex = sock6->sock->sk->sk_bound_dev_if;
--
2.52.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-11-26 10:26 UTC|newest]
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2025-11-26 14:32 ` [PATCH net v2] net: vxlan: prevent NULL deref in vxlan_xmit_one Ido Schimmel
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