Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>:
On Thu, 3 Sep 2026 00:59:56 +0900 you wrote:
> The commit cited in the Fixes tag allowed VXLAN FDB entries to point to
> FDB nexthops so that overlay traffic could be load balanced across
> multiple VTEPs. Such entries can only be configured from user space,
> cannot be learned and cannot roam. They only make sense with a user space
> control plane such as E-VPN where data plane learning is disabled.
>
> Despite that, the VXLAN driver does not currently prevent such entries
> from being configured with the "dynamic" flag. The per-nexthop FDB list
> is only protected by the per-device hash lock, which is not sufficient
> when two VXLAN devices point to the same FDB nexthop and therefore share
> the list. Aging runs in softirq context without RTNL, so an entry deleted
> by one device can race with an addition or deletion from the other,
> leading to list corruption:
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net,v3] vxlan: reject dynamic fdb entries that reference a nexthop id
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/98fc57d16744
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