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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>, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	 Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/3] ip_gre: validate netlink attributes before changing the tunnel
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:09:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260912150944.3470971-2-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260912150944.3470971-1-edumazet@google.com>

ipgre_netlink_parms() and erspan_netlink_parms() write into the live
tunnel before all attributes have been validated, so a rejected
changelink leaves it half updated.

A request carrying IFLA_GRE_COLLECT_METADATA and an invalid
IFLA_GRE_IGNORE_DF returns -EINVAL, but dev->type has already become
ARPHRD_NONE, breaking the interface for good.

Parse the ERSPAN attributes into local variables and commit them only
once everything is validated, hence erspan_netlink_parms() now calls
ipgre_netlink_parms() last. Same reason for moving
IFLA_GRE_COLLECT_METADATA after the IFLA_GRE_IGNORE_DF validation.

Only the parsers become all-or-nothing: ip_tunnel_encap_setup() still
runs before them, ip_tunnel_changelink() after them.

Fixes: e271c7b4420d ("gre: do not keep the GRE header around in collect medata mode")
Fixes: 84e54fe0a5ea ("gre: introduce native tunnel support for ERSPAN")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index 82309efd417e0f1f6554e7028be8e05d769e932d..40b922362a7ca4e8ee0c3ee6c0af8d4a9fdc42d3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -1233,12 +1233,6 @@ static int ipgre_netlink_parms(struct net_device *dev,
 		parms->iph.frag_off = htons(IP_DF);
 	}
 
-	if (data[IFLA_GRE_COLLECT_METADATA]) {
-		t->collect_md = true;
-		if (dev->type == ARPHRD_IPGRE)
-			dev->type = ARPHRD_NONE;
-	}
-
 	if (data[IFLA_GRE_IGNORE_DF]) {
 		if (nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_GRE_IGNORE_DF])
 		  && (parms->iph.frag_off & htons(IP_DF)))
@@ -1246,6 +1240,13 @@ static int ipgre_netlink_parms(struct net_device *dev,
 		t->ignore_df = !!nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_GRE_IGNORE_DF]);
 	}
 
+	/* All attributes have been validated, we can change @dev and @t. */
+	if (data[IFLA_GRE_COLLECT_METADATA]) {
+		t->collect_md = true;
+		if (dev->type == ARPHRD_IPGRE)
+			dev->type = ARPHRD_NONE;
+	}
+
 	if (data[IFLA_GRE_FWMARK])
 		*fwmark = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_GRE_FWMARK]);
 
@@ -1259,40 +1260,51 @@ static int erspan_netlink_parms(struct net_device *dev,
 				__u32 *fwmark)
 {
 	struct ip_tunnel *t = netdev_priv(dev);
+	u8 erspan_ver = t->erspan_ver;
+	u32 index = t->index;
+	u16 hwid = t->hwid;
+	u8 dir = t->dir;
 	int err;
 
-	err = ipgre_netlink_parms(dev, data, tb, parms, fwmark);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
 	if (!data)
-		return 0;
+		return ipgre_netlink_parms(dev, data, tb, parms, fwmark);
 
 	if (data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_VER]) {
-		t->erspan_ver = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_VER]);
+		erspan_ver = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_VER]);
 
-		if (t->erspan_ver > 2)
+		if (erspan_ver > 2)
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (t->erspan_ver == 1) {
+	if (erspan_ver == 1) {
 		if (data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_INDEX]) {
-			t->index = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_INDEX]);
-			if (t->index & ~INDEX_MASK)
+			index = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_INDEX]);
+			if (index & ~INDEX_MASK)
 				return -EINVAL;
 		}
-	} else if (t->erspan_ver == 2) {
+	} else if (erspan_ver == 2) {
 		if (data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_DIR]) {
-			t->dir = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_DIR]);
-			if (t->dir & ~(DIR_MASK >> DIR_OFFSET))
+			dir = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_DIR]);
+			if (dir & ~(DIR_MASK >> DIR_OFFSET))
 				return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		if (data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_HWID]) {
-			t->hwid = nla_get_u16(data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_HWID]);
-			if (t->hwid & ~(HWID_MASK >> HWID_OFFSET))
+			hwid = nla_get_u16(data[IFLA_GRE_ERSPAN_HWID]);
+			if (hwid & ~(HWID_MASK >> HWID_OFFSET))
 				return -EINVAL;
 		}
 	}
 
+	err = ipgre_netlink_parms(dev, data, tb, parms, fwmark);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	/* All attributes have been validated, we can change @t. */
+	t->erspan_ver = erspan_ver;
+	t->index = index;
+	t->hwid = hwid;
+	t->dir = dir;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.55.0.1007.g17ff1f9808-goog


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-12 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-12 15:09 [PATCH net 0/3] ip_gre: fix header lengths and validation on changelink Eric Dumazet
2026-09-12 15:09 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-09-12 15:09 ` [PATCH net 2/3] ip_gre: compute tunnel lengths absolutely instead of by delta Eric Dumazet
2026-09-12 15:09 ` [PATCH net 3/3] ip_gre: recompute erspan header lengths after a change Eric Dumazet

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