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From: Andy Roulin <aroulin@nvidia.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>, Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>, Chirag Shah <chirag@nvidia.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2 2/3] vxlan: vnifilter: fix spurious notification on VNI update
Date: Tue,  2 Jun 2026 11:51:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260602185138.253265-3-aroulin@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260602185138.253265-1-aroulin@nvidia.com>

When a VNI is re-added with the same attributes (e.g. same group or no
group), vxlan_vni_update() sends a spurious RTM_NEWTUNNEL notification
even though nothing changed.

The bug is that 'if (changed)' tests whether the pointer is non-NULL,
not the bool value it points to. Since every caller passes a valid
pointer, the condition is always true and the notification fires
unconditionally.

Fix by dereferencing the pointer: 'if (*changed)'.

Reproducer:

 # ip link add vxlan100 type vxlan dstport 4789 local 10.0.0.1 \
      nolearning external vnifilter
 # ip link set vxlan100 up
 # bridge monitor vni &
 # bridge vni add vni 1000 dev vxlan100
 # bridge vni add vni 1000 dev vxlan100  # spurious notification

Fixes: f9c4bb0b245c ("vxlan: vni filtering support on collect metadata device")
Signed-off-by: Andy Roulin <aroulin@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
---
 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
index f2a202d468928..3e76f4e210944 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ static int vxlan_vni_update(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (changed)
+	if (*changed)
 		vxlan_vnifilter_notify(vxlan, vninode, RTM_NEWTUNNEL);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-02 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-02 18:51 [PATCH net v2 0/3] vxlan: vnifilter: fix VNI add/update notifications Andy Roulin
2026-06-02 18:51 ` [PATCH net v2 1/3] vxlan: vnifilter: send notification on VNI add Andy Roulin
2026-06-02 18:51 ` Andy Roulin [this message]
2026-06-02 18:51 ` [PATCH net v2 3/3] selftests: net: add vxlan vnifilter notification test Andy Roulin

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