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The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 8165f7ff57d9667d2bb477ef6af83ede7fed4ad7
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026070221-oblivious-crayfish-1017@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 8165f7ff57d9667d2bb477ef6af83ede7fed4ad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maoyi Xie <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:59:35 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for
changelink

A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the tunnel link netns t->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in t->net can rewrite a tunnel that lives in t->net.

Add rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() next to rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() in net/core/rtnetlink.c. It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the link netns and is skipped when the link netns is dev_net(dev), where the rtnl path already checked it. The other patches in this series use the same helper.

Gate ipgre_changelink() and erspan_changelink() with it, at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, because the parsers update live tunnel fields first. ipgre_netlink_parms() sets t->collect_md before ip_tunnel_changelink() runs.

Commit 8b484efd5cb4 ("ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_siocdevprivate().") added the same check on the ioctl path. This adds it on RTM_NEWLINK.

include/net/rtnetlink.h +2 -0
index ec65a8cebb99..2bff41aacc98 100644
@@ -256,6 +256,8 @@ int rtnl_configure_link(struct net_device *dev, const struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
 int rtnl_nla_parse_ifinfomsg(struct nlattr **tb, const struct nlattr *nla_peer,
 			     struct netlink_ext_ack *exterr);
 struct net *rtnl_get_net_ns_capable(struct sock *sk, int netnsid);
+bool rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(const struct net_device *dev,
+			       const struct net *link_net);
 
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK(kind) MODULE_ALIAS("rtnl-link-" kind)
 
net/core/rtnetlink.c +8 -0
index 61d095ce1b3b..12aa3aa1688b 100644
@@ -2438,6 +2438,14 @@ struct net *rtnl_get_net_ns_capable(struct sock *sk, int netnsid)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtnl_get_net_ns_capable);
 
+bool rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(const struct net_device *dev,
+			       const struct net *link_net)
+{
+	return net_eq(link_net, dev_net(dev)) ||
+	       ns_capable(link_net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtnl_dev_link_net_capable);
+
 static int rtnl_valid_dump_ifinfo_req(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 				      bool strict_check, struct nlattr **tb,
 				      struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +6 -0
index 208dd48012d9..3efdfb4ffa21 100644
@@ -1457,6 +1457,9 @@ static int ipgre_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	__u32 fwmark = t->fwmark;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(dev, t->net))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	err = ipgre_newlink_encap_setup(dev, data);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
@@ -1486,6 +1489,9 @@ static int erspan_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	__u32 fwmark = t->fwmark;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(dev, t->net))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	err = ipgre_newlink_encap_setup(dev, data);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
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PATCH 1/1 net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink

From: Maoyi Xie <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 8165f7ff57d9667d2bb477ef6af83ede7fed4ad7 ]

A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the tunnel link netns t->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in t->net can rewrite a tunnel that lives in t->net.

Add rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() next to rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() in net/core/rtnetlink.c. It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the link netns and is skipped when the link netns is dev_net(dev), where the rtnl path already checked it. The other patches in this series use the same helper.

Gate ipgre_changelink() and erspan_changelink() with it, at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, because the parsers update live tunnel fields first. ipgre_netlink_parms() sets t->collect_md before ip_tunnel_changelink() runs.

Commit 8b484efd5cb4 ("ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_siocdevprivate().") added the same check on the ioctl path. This adds it on RTM_NEWLINK.

---
 include/net/rtnetlink.h | 2 ++
 net/core/rtnetlink.c    | 8 ++++++++
 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c       | 6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
include/net/rtnetlink.h +2 -0
index 0bd400be3f8d9f..983f01bf1bd6ba 100644
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ int rtnl_configure_link(struct net_device *dev, const struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
 int rtnl_nla_parse_ifinfomsg(struct nlattr **tb, const struct nlattr *nla_peer,
 			     struct netlink_ext_ack *exterr);
 struct net *rtnl_get_net_ns_capable(struct sock *sk, int netnsid);
+bool rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(const struct net_device *dev,
+			       const struct net *link_net);
 
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK(kind) MODULE_ALIAS("rtnl-link-" kind)
 
net/core/rtnetlink.c +8 -0
index a4e017c2cbf213..b97d348a5b2a93 100644
@@ -2110,6 +2110,14 @@ struct net *rtnl_get_net_ns_capable(struct sock *sk, int netnsid)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtnl_get_net_ns_capable);
 
+bool rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(const struct net_device *dev,
+			       const struct net *link_net)
+{
+	return net_eq(link_net, dev_net(dev)) ||
+	       ns_capable(link_net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtnl_dev_link_net_capable);
+
 static int rtnl_valid_dump_ifinfo_req(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 				      bool strict_check, struct nlattr **tb,
 				      struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +6 -0
index 2c1228ddaa22f7..b635d2fedd2dbd 100644
@@ -1406,6 +1406,9 @@ static int ipgre_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	struct ip_tunnel_parm p;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(dev, t->net))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	err = ipgre_newlink_encap_setup(dev, data);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
@@ -1435,6 +1438,9 @@ static int erspan_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	struct ip_tunnel_parm p;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(dev, t->net))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	err = ipgre_newlink_encap_setup(dev, data);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
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