From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/9] vxlan: initialize _md in vxlan_xmit_one()
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 12:08:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903120840.1024153-2-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903120840.1024153-1-edumazet@google.com>
If a VXLAN device is configured with both VXLAN_F_COLLECT_METADATA and
VXLAN_F_GBP, and a packet is transmitted through it using an external
ip_tunnel_info that lacks the IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT flag, md is left
pointing to the uninitialized _md stack variable:
if (test_bit(IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT, info->key.tun_flags)) {
if (info->options_len < sizeof(*md))
goto drop;
md = ip_tunnel_info_opts(info);
}
Because IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT is not set, md is not updated and remains
pointing to _md. Later, vxlan_build_skb() is called with md, which
eventually calls vxlan_build_gbp_hdr():
if (vxflags & VXLAN_F_GBP)
vxlan_build_gbp_hdr(vxh, md);
Inside vxlan_build_gbp_hdr(), md->gbp is read:
if (!md->gbp)
return;
gbp = (struct vxlanhdr_gbp *)vxh;
...
if (md->gbp & VXLAN_GBP_DONT_LEARN)
gbp->dont_learn = 1;
If the stack contains garbage, this causes:
1) VXLAN_HF_GBP flag to be spuriously set in the VXLAN header.
2) gbp->dont_learn and gbp->policy_applied to be set from stack bits.
3) gbp->policy_id to receive 16 bits of uninitialized kernel stack data,
leaking it onto the wire.
Fix this by zero-initializing _md. If IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT is not
present, md->gbp remains 0, and vxlan_build_gbp_hdr() returns early
without modifying the VXLAN header.
Fixes: ee122c79d422 ("vxlan: Flow based tunneling")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index 459f19f7071e5bafe9e4c57ef8819645c3da7121..6d886b6f2dc1d62f0eb26c9ba310c4feaed9cafd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
struct ip_tunnel_key key;
struct vxlan_dev *vxlan = netdev_priv(dev);
const struct iphdr *old_iph;
- struct vxlan_metadata _md;
+ struct vxlan_metadata _md = {};
struct vxlan_metadata *md = &_md;
unsigned int pkt_len = skb->len;
__be16 src_port = 0, dst_port;
--
2.55.0.970.g62bdec98f9-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-03 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-03 12:08 [PATCH net-next 0/9] vxlan: convert configuration to RCU and drop RTNL in vxlan_fill_info() Eric Dumazet
2026-09-03 12:08 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-09-03 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 2/9] vxlan: vnifilter: free vxlan_vni_group via RCU in vxlan_vnigroup_uninit() Eric Dumazet
2026-09-03 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 3/9] vxlan: vnifilter: use list_for_each_entry_rcu() in vxlan_vnifilter_dump_dev() Eric Dumazet
2026-09-03 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 4/9] vxlan: pass vxlan_config pointer to helper functions Eric Dumazet
2026-09-03 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 5/9] vxlan: move VXLAN_F_MDB to struct vxlan_dev flags Eric Dumazet
2026-09-03 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 6/9] vxlan: dynamically allocate struct vxlan_config Eric Dumazet
2026-09-03 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 7/9] vxlan: convert configuration to RCU protection Eric Dumazet
2026-09-03 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 8/9] vxlan: remove default_dst and use vxlan_config and lowerdev Eric Dumazet
2026-09-03 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 9/9] vxlan: no longer rely on RTNL in vxlan_fill_info() Eric Dumazet
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