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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 3/5] vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:42:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260723144249.759100-4-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260723144249.759100-1-edumazet@google.com>

The neighbour hardware address n->ha can be updated asynchronously by the
neighbour subsystem, protected by n->ha_lock seqlock. Reading n->ha without
holding the seqlock loop can lead to torn reads or reading a partially updated
MAC address.

Use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit() to safely copy n->ha under
read_seqbegin()/read_seqretry() lock protection before using it.

Note that arp_reduce() and neigh_reduce() seem to have the same issue
left for future patches.

Fixes: e4f67addf158 ("add DOVE extensions for VXLAN")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index fb4a706cd5786d1937b1922acced31ffdb187c2f..10dd19eec09e266197ee51330a652f4e76c9643a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -2159,9 +2159,11 @@ static bool route_shortcircuit(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	}
 
 	if (n) {
+		u8 haddr[ETH_ALEN];
 		bool diff;
 
-		diff = !ether_addr_equal(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, n->ha);
+		neigh_ha_snapshot(haddr, n, dev);
+		diff = !ether_addr_equal_unaligned(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, haddr);
 		if (diff) {
 			if (skb_cow_head(skb, 0)) {
 				neigh_release(n);
@@ -2169,7 +2171,7 @@ static bool route_shortcircuit(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 			}
 			memcpy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_source, eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest,
 				dev->addr_len);
-			memcpy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, n->ha, dev->addr_len);
+			memcpy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, haddr, dev->addr_len);
 		}
 		neigh_release(n);
 		return diff;
-- 
2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog


  parent 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 ` [PATCH net 1/5] vxlan: re-fetch eth header after route_shortcircuit() Eric Dumazet
2026-07-23 16:37   ` 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 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-07-23 16:41   ` [PATCH net 3/5] vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() " 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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