This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vxlan: fix use-after-free on deletion to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: vxlan-fix-use-after-free-on-deletion.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 8 08:58:26 CEST 2017 From: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 03:24:08 +0300 Subject: vxlan: fix use-after-free on deletion From: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit a53cb29b0af346af44e4abf13d7e59f807fba690 ] Adding a vxlan interface to a socket isn't symmetrical, while adding is done in vxlan_open() the deletion is done in vxlan_dellink(). This can cause a use-after-free error when we close the vxlan interface before deleting it. We add vxlan_vs_del_dev() to match vxlan_vs_add_dev() and call it from vxlan_stop() to match the call from vxlan_open(). Fixes: 56ef9c909b40 ("vxlan: Move socket initialization to within rtnl scope") Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 19 +++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static const u8 all_zeros_mac[ETH_ALEN + static int vxlan_sock_add(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan); +static void vxlan_vs_del_dev(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan); + /* per-network namespace private data for this module */ struct vxlan_net { struct list_head vxlan_list; @@ -1040,6 +1042,8 @@ static void vxlan_sock_release(struct vx rcu_assign_pointer(vxlan->vn4_sock, NULL); synchronize_net(); + vxlan_vs_del_dev(vxlan); + if (__vxlan_sock_release_prep(sock4)) { udp_tunnel_sock_release(sock4->sock); kfree(sock4); @@ -2300,6 +2304,15 @@ static void vxlan_cleanup(unsigned long mod_timer(&vxlan->age_timer, next_timer); } +static void vxlan_vs_del_dev(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan) +{ + struct vxlan_net *vn = net_generic(vxlan->net, vxlan_net_id); + + spin_lock(&vn->sock_lock); + hlist_del_init_rcu(&vxlan->hlist); + spin_unlock(&vn->sock_lock); +} + static void vxlan_vs_add_dev(struct vxlan_sock *vs, struct vxlan_dev *vxlan) { struct vxlan_net *vn = net_generic(vxlan->net, vxlan_net_id); @@ -3070,12 +3083,6 @@ static int vxlan_newlink(struct net *src static void vxlan_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head) { struct vxlan_dev *vxlan = netdev_priv(dev); - struct vxlan_net *vn = net_generic(vxlan->net, vxlan_net_id); - - spin_lock(&vn->sock_lock); - if (!hlist_unhashed(&vxlan->hlist)) - hlist_del_rcu(&vxlan->hlist); - spin_unlock(&vn->sock_lock); gro_cells_destroy(&vxlan->gro_cells); list_del(&vxlan->next); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/vxlan-fix-use-after-free-on-deletion.patch