Re: [PATCH net 2/2] ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink().

Eric Dumazet
2026-04-28T13:14:50Z

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 4:07 AM Maoyi Xie <maoyixie.tju@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Maoyi Xie <maoyi.xie@ntu.edu.sg>
>
> After commit 5e72ce3e3980 ("net: ipv6: Use link netns in newlink() of
> rtnl_link_ops"), ip6erspan_newlink() correctly resolves the per-netns
> ip6gre hash via link_net. ip6erspan_changelink() was not converted in
> that series and still uses dev_net(dev), which diverges from the
> device's creation netns after IFLA_NET_NS_FD migration.
>
> This re-inserts the tunnel into the wrong per-netns hash, leaving a
> stale entry in the original creation netns. When that netns is later
> destroyed, ip6gre_exit_rtnl_net() walks the stale entry, producing a
> slab-use-after-free reported by KASAN, followed by a kernel BUG at
> net/core/dev.c (LIST_POISON1) in unregister_netdevice_many_notify().
>
> Reachable from an unprivileged user namespace ("unshare --user
> --map-root-user --net"); cross-tenant scope on container hosts.
>
> Note: ip6gre_changelink() (the non-erspan sibling earlier in the same
> file) already uses the cached t->net correctly. The bug is specific
> to ip6erspan_changelink() copying the wrong shape.
>
> Fixes: 5e72ce3e3980 ("net: ipv6: Use link netns in newlink() of rtnl_link_ops")
> Reported-by: Maoyi Xie <maoyi.xie@ntu.edu.sg>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15+
> Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <maoyi.xie@ntu.edu.sg>
> ---
> net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> index dafcc0dcd..38ac14cc0 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> @@ -2261,7 +2261,8 @@ static int ip6erspan_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
> struct nlattr *data[],
> struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
> {
> - struct ip6gre_net *ign = net_generic(dev_net(dev), ip6gre_net_id);
> + struct ip6_tnl *nt = netdev_priv(dev);
> + struct ip6gre_net *ign = net_generic(nt->net, ip6gre_net_id);
> struct __ip6_tnl_parm p;
> struct ip6_tnl *t;
>

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Thanks.