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From: Wentao Luo <luowentao077@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
	Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>,
	Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>,
	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] vxlan: fix NULL deref when joining a group without a socket
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:22:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b397156b-c184-4061-a9d5-52cce5c4f07e@gmail.com> (raw)

vxlan_sock_add() ignores -EAFNOSUPPORT when creating the IPv6 socket
of a metadata device, so the device can come up with vn6_sock NULL
after ipv6.disable=1. A later IPv6 multicast join still uses that
socket. vxlan_igmp_join() dereferences it and oopses.

This was observed on an external vnifilter device by adding an IPv6
group while the device was up:

   BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in vxlan_igmp_join+0xb8/0x18c
   Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000010 by task bridge/729
   Call trace:
    show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
    dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90
    print_report+0x468/0x5cc
    kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
    __asan_load8+0x7c/0xd0
    vxlan_igmp_join+0xb8/0x18c
    vxlan_vni_update_group+0x2b4/0x390
    vxlan_process_vni_filter+0xfe0/0x1750
    vxlan_vnifilter_process+0x218/0x270
    rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x1ec/0x514
    netlink_rcv_skb+0xc0/0x1f0
    rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x24
    netlink_unicast+0x4b8/0x558
    netlink_sendmsg+0x2b8/0x584
    ...

Return -EAFNOSUPPORT from vxlan_igmp_join() and vxlan_igmp_leave()
when the address family has no socket. The same leave path runs while
rolling back a failed join.

Fixes: d074bf960044 ("vxlan: correctly handle ipv6.disable module 
parameter")
Signed-off-by: Wentao Luo <luowentao077@gmail.com>
---
Simplest reproducer. Build with CONFIG_IPV6=y and boot with
ipv6.disable=1:

   ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan external group ff05::1 dev lo dstport 4789
   ip link set vxlan0 up

The NULL pointer dereference is then reproduced.

  drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_multicast.c | 12 ++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_multicast.c 
b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_multicast.c
index 3b75b48dc726d..33ec1fd59ca82 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_multicast.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_multicast.c
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ int vxlan_igmp_join(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan, union 
vxlan_addr *rip,
  			.imr_ifindex		= ifindex,
  		};

+		if (!sock4)
+			return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
+
  		sk = sock4->sk;
  		lock_sock(sk);
  		ret = ip_mc_join_group(sk, &mreq);
@@ -37,6 +40,9 @@ int vxlan_igmp_join(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan, union 
vxlan_addr *rip,
  	} else {
  		struct vxlan_sock *sock6 = rtnl_dereference(vxlan->vn6_sock);

+		if (!sock6)
+			return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
+
  		sk = sock6->sk;
  		lock_sock(sk);
  		ret = ipv6_sock_mc_join(sk, ifindex, &ip->sin6.sin6_addr);
@@ -62,6 +68,9 @@ int vxlan_igmp_leave(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan, union 
vxlan_addr *rip,
  			.imr_ifindex		= ifindex,
  		};

+		if (!sock4)
+			return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
+
  		sk = sock4->sk;
  		lock_sock(sk);
  		ret = ip_mc_leave_group(sk, &mreq);
@@ -70,6 +79,9 @@ int vxlan_igmp_leave(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan, union 
vxlan_addr *rip,
  	} else {
  		struct vxlan_sock *sock6 = rtnl_dereference(vxlan->vn6_sock);

+		if (!sock6)
+			return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
+
  		sk = sock6->sk;
  		lock_sock(sk);
  		ret = ipv6_sock_mc_drop(sk, ifindex, &ip->sin6.sin6_addr);
-- 
2.43.0

             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-29 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-29 12:22 Wentao Luo [this message]
2026-09-29 15:27 ` [PATCH net] vxlan: fix NULL deref when joining a group without a socket Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-09-30  6:03   ` Jiri Benc
2026-09-30 10:07     ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera

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