[PATCH net v2] ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink().

From: Maoyi Xie

Date: Thu Apr 30 2026 - 06:35:05 EST


After commit 5e72ce3e3980 ("net: ipv6: Use link netns in newlink() of
rtnl_link_ops"), ip6erspan_newlink() correctly resolves the per-netns
ip6gre hash via link_net. ip6erspan_changelink() was not converted in
that series and still uses dev_net(dev), which diverges from the
device's creation netns after IFLA_NET_NS_FD migration.

This re-inserts the tunnel into the wrong per-netns hash. The
original netns keeps a stale entry. When that netns is later
destroyed, ip6gre_exit_rtnl_net() walks the stale entry, producing a
slab-use-after-free reported by KASAN, followed by a kernel BUG at
net/core/dev.c (LIST_POISON1) in unregister_netdevice_many_notify().

Reachable from an unprivileged user namespace (unshare --user
--map-root-user --net).

ip6gre_changelink() earlier in the same file already uses the cached
t->net; only ip6erspan_changelink() has the wrong shape.

Fixes: 2d665034f239 ("net: ip6_gre: Fix ip6erspan hlen calculation")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.15+
Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <maoyi.xie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2 (this submission, addressing v1 review):
- Fixes: changed to 2d665034f239 ("net: ip6_gre: Fix ip6erspan
hlen calculation"), the commit that introduced the divergent
ip6erspan_changelink() shape (per Xiao Liang).
- dropped Reported-by since the SOB is the same person
(per Kuniyuki Iwashima).
- reverse xmas tree local variable order; reused *t instead of
shadowing it (per Kuniyuki Iwashima).
- added Reviewed-by Eric Dumazet, Reviewed-by Kuniyuki Iwashima.
v1: originally posted as [PATCH net 2/2] of the
"ipv6: tunnel changelink: use cached netns pointer" series.
The sibling patch ([PATCH net 1/2] vti6_changelink) is being
handled in its own thread.

net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index dafcc0dcd..0097d4784 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -2261,10 +2261,11 @@ static int ip6erspan_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
struct nlattr *data[],
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
- struct ip6gre_net *ign = net_generic(dev_net(dev), ip6gre_net_id);
+ struct ip6_tnl *t = netdev_priv(dev);
struct __ip6_tnl_parm p;
- struct ip6_tnl *t;
+ struct ip6gre_net *ign;

+ ign = net_generic(t->net, ip6gre_net_id);
t = ip6gre_changelink_common(dev, tb, data, &p, extack);
if (IS_ERR(t))
return PTR_ERR(t);
--
2.34.1