From: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
federico.kirschbaum@xbow.com
Subject: [PATCH net] vxlan: mdb: Fix use-after-free in vxlan_mdb_remote_src_del()
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:15:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260826151542.68815-1-baul.lee@xbow.com> (raw)
vxlan_mdb_is_valid_source(), which validates MDBE_ATTR_SOURCE and every
MDBE_ATTR_SRC_LIST member, accepts the all-zeros address.
A source list is only accepted on a (*, G) entry, whose source is the
all-zeros address, and for each member of the list an (S, G) entry is
derived from it by substituting the source. Entries are keyed by a plain
memcmp() of struct vxlan_mdb_entry_key, so if MDBE_ATTR_SOURCE is present
and holds the all-zeros address and the source list holds it as well, the
derived (S, G) key is byte-identical to the (*, G) key and resolves to the
same entry. Omitting MDBE_ATTR_SOURCE is not equivalent, as the key is
then left with a zero address family.
vxlan_mdb_remote_src_del() removes the forwarding entry of a source before
freeing the source entry:
vxlan_mdb_remote_src_fwd_del(vxlan, group, remote, &ent->addr);
vxlan_mdb_remote_src_entry_del(ent);
With the keys aliased, the first call deletes the remote of the entry that
owns 'ent' instead of a separate (S, G) entry, and frees 'ent'. The second
call then runs on the freed entry, and its hlist_del() reads ->pprev and
->next out of it and writes through them.
Adding the (*, G) entry with NLM_F_REPLACE and no source list marks the
all-zeros source for deletion and reaches this from the sweep at the end
of vxlan_mdb_remote_srcs_replace().
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __vxlan_mdb_add+0x1cd/0xd70
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888102852500 by task poc/84
__vxlan_mdb_add+0x1cd/0xd70
vxlan_mdb_add+0xc0/0x140
rtnl_mdb_add+0x157/0x2a0
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x207/0x5a0
Allocated by task 84:
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x153/0x360
vxlan_mdb_remote_srcs_add+0x2eb/0x440
__vxlan_mdb_add+0x803/0xd70
Freed by task 84:
kfree+0x14c/0x3b0
vxlan_mdb_remote_del+0x129/0x1a0
__vxlan_mdb_del+0x4f/0xe0
vxlan_mdb_remote_src_fwd_del.isra.0+0x162/0x1b0
__vxlan_mdb_add+0x1c5/0xd70
The MDB operations are netns-scoped, so an unprivileged user can perform
them in a new user and network namespace.
Reject the all-zeros address in vxlan_mdb_is_valid_source(), which covers
both call sites. A (*, G) entry is expressed by omitting the source, so
nothing legitimate is refused.
Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Fixes: a3a48de5eade ("vxlan: mdb: Add MDB control path support")
Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
---
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c
index d71e1925ecfd..7986c5b5dc67 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c
@@ -354,6 +354,10 @@ static bool vxlan_mdb_is_valid_source(const struct nlattr *attr, __be16 proto,
NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "IPv4 multicast source address is not allowed");
return false;
}
+ if (nla_get_in_addr(attr) == htonl(INADDR_ANY)) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "IPv4 all-zeros source address is not allowed");
+ return false;
+ }
break;
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
case htons(ETH_P_IPV6): {
@@ -368,6 +372,10 @@ static bool vxlan_mdb_is_valid_source(const struct nlattr *attr, __be16 proto,
NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "IPv6 multicast source address is not allowed");
return false;
}
+ if (ipv6_addr_any(&src)) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "IPv6 all-zeros source address is not allowed");
+ return false;
+ }
break;
}
#endif
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2026-08-26 15:15 Baul Lee [this message]
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