[PATCH net] vxlan: reject appending a remote to a nexthop fdb entry
From: Henry Martin
Date: Sat Oct 10 2026 - 02:48:22 EST
vxlan_fdb_update_existing() guards nexthop entries against nhid
replacement (nhid && !f->nh) and against nhid-carrying NLM_F_APPEND,
but the plain NLM_F_APPEND branch for multicast/zero MACs never
checks f->nh: vxlan_fdb_append() happily links a remote onto an
entry that is backed by a nexthop group.
This breaks the "nexthop entries have no remote list" invariant: the
xmit path consults f->nh while dump/notify/delete walk the remotes
list. Concretely, the appended remote is invisible in fdb dumps,
yet "bridge fdb del ... dst <ip>" removes it, and once the last
remote is gone the whole nexthop entry is destroyed, silently
dropping a forwarding binding the user never asked to remove.
Commit 98fc57d167446 ("vxlan: reject dynamic fdb entries that
reference a nexthop id") closed the sibling nh/state mixing vector;
this is the same invariant violation through the opposite door.
Reject NLM_F_APPEND on nexthop-backed entries.
This issue was discovered by Tencent CodeBuddy Security.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 1274e1cc4226 ("vxlan: ecmp support for mac fdb entries")
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index 3390e341d1e58..aff450ff6aea7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -1038,6 +1038,11 @@ static int vxlan_fdb_update_existing(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan,
if ((flags & NLM_F_APPEND) &&
(is_multicast_ether_addr(f->key.eth_addr) ||
is_zero_ether_addr(f->key.eth_addr))) {
+ if (rcu_access_pointer(f->nh)) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
+ "Cannot append a remote to a nexthop fdb");
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
rc = vxlan_fdb_append(f, ip, port, vni, ifindex, &rd);
if (rc < 0)
--
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