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
next 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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