[PATCH net v2] vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush

From: Kyle Zeng <[email protected]>

A non-nexthop FDB entry is expected to have at least one remote while it
remains reachable through the FDB hash table. A filtered bulk flush
violates this invariant when every remote matches: It unlinks the last
remote in vxlan_fdb_dst_destroy() and only afterwards tells vxlan_flush()
to destroy the parent FDB entry.

An RCU reader can find the parent during this interval.
first_remote_rcu() then applies list_entry_rcu() to the empty list head,
producing an invalid remote pointer that the receive learning path can
read from and write to.

When a matching remote is the sole remaining remote, leave it linked and
ask the caller to destroy the entire FDB entry. vxlan_fdb_destroy() keeps
the remote attached while sending the deletion notification and removing
the parent from the lookup structures.

Fixes: c499fccb71cb ("vxlan: vxlan_core: Support FDB flushing by destination VNI")
Cc: [email protected]
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Codex:gpt-5.5-cyber
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: David Lee <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Lee <[email protected]>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add the net tree prefix to the subject.
- Restore Kyle Zeng as the patch author and correct the sign-off chain.
- Move the research credit below the commit-message separator.
- Add the recipients reported by netdev CI.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Bug found and triaged by OpenAI Security Research and
validated by Trail of Bits.

Trail of Bits has a reproducer for this bug that triggers a
KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read in vxlan_snoop() and can share if needed.

 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 d834a4865..a00df127d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -3058,6 +3058,11 @@ vxlan_fdb_flush_match_remotes(struct vxlan_fdb *f, struct vxlan_dev *vxlan,
 		if (!vxlan_fdb_flush_remote_matches(desc, rd))
 			continue;
 
+		if (list_is_singular(&f->remotes)) {
+			*p_destroy_fdb = true;
+			return;
+		}
+
 		vxlan_fdb_dst_destroy(vxlan, f, rd, true);
 		remotes_flushed = true;
 	}
-- 
2.53.0