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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>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 1/5] vxlan: re-fetch eth header after route_shortcircuit()
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:42:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260723144249.759100-2-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260723144249.759100-1-edumazet@google.com>

Before route_shortcircuit(), the eth header pointer is cached from eth_hdr(skb).

Inside route_shortcircuit(), pskb_may_pull() can be called, which may
reallocate skb->head.

In this case, returning to vxlan_xmit() leaves the cached eth pointer pointing to
freed memory, leading to a use-after-free when dereferencing eth->h_dest.

Fix this by updating eth = eth_hdr(skb) after calling route_shortcircuit().

Fixes: ae8840825605 ("VXLAN: Allow L2 redirection with L3 switching")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index 67c367cc566233e809b0f70e0d939dd1c1ac0d9f..9060a1259ac283d4db4b7a854ce74203496e9313 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -2796,6 +2796,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t vxlan_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	    (ntohs(eth->h_proto) == ETH_P_IP ||
 	     ntohs(eth->h_proto) == ETH_P_IPV6)) {
 		did_rsc = route_shortcircuit(dev, skb);
+		eth = eth_hdr(skb);
 		if (did_rsc)
 			f = vxlan_find_mac_tx(vxlan, eth->h_dest, vni);
 	}
-- 
2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog


       reply	other threads:[~2026-07-23 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20260723144249.759100-1-edumazet@google.com>
2026-07-23 14:42 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-07-23 16:37   ` [PATCH net 1/5] vxlan: re-fetch eth header after route_shortcircuit() Vadim Fedorenko
2026-07-23 14:42 ` [PATCH net 2/5] vxlan: unclone skb head before modifying eth header in route_shortcircuit() Eric Dumazet
2026-07-23 14:42 ` [PATCH net 3/5] vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() " Eric Dumazet
2026-07-23 16:41   ` Vadim Fedorenko
2026-07-23 14:42 ` [PATCH net 4/5] vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() " Eric Dumazet
2026-07-23 16:42   ` Vadim Fedorenko
2026-07-23 14:42 ` [PATCH net 5/5] vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() for transmit path header pulls Eric Dumazet
2026-07-23 16:43   ` Vadim Fedorenko
2026-07-26 10:34   ` Ido Schimmel

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