FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: vxlan: prevent NULL deref in vxlan_xmit_one" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-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-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 1f73a56f986005f0bc64ed23873930e2ee4f5911
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026093053-earache-hubcap-d19c@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 1f73a56f986005f0bc64ed23873930e2ee4f5911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Tenart <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:26:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] net: vxlan: prevent NULL deref in vxlan_xmit_one

Neither sock4 nor sock6 pointers are guaranteed to be non-NULL in vxlan_xmit_one, e.g. if the iface is brought down. This can lead to the following NULL dereference:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
  RIP: 0010:vxlan_xmit_one+0xbb3/0x1580
  Call Trace:
   vxlan_xmit+0x429/0x610
   dev_hard_start_xmit+0x55/0xa0
   __dev_queue_xmit+0x6d0/0x7f0
   ip_finish_output2+0x24b/0x590
   ip_output+0x63/0x110

Mentioned commits changed the code path in vxlan_xmit_one and as a side effect the sock4/6 pointer validity checks in vxlan(6)_get_route were lost. Fix this by adding back checks.

Since both commits being fixed were released in the same version (v6.7) and are strongly related, bundle the fixes in a single commit.

index a5c55e7e4d79..e957aa12a8a4 100644
@@ -2349,7 +2349,7 @@ void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	int addr_family;
 	__u8 tos, ttl;
 	int ifindex;
-	int err;
+	int err = 0;
 	u32 flags = vxlan->cfg.flags;
 	bool use_cache;
 	bool udp_sum = false;

@@ -2454,12 +2454,18 @@ void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (addr_family == AF_INET) {
-		struct vxlan_sock *sock4 = rcu_dereference(vxlan->vn4_sock);
+		struct vxlan_sock *sock4;
 		u16 ipcb_flags = 0;
 		struct rtable *rt;
 		__be16 df = 0;
 		__be32 saddr;
 
+		sock4 = rcu_dereference(vxlan->vn4_sock);
+		if (unlikely(!sock4)) {
+			reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_READY;
+			goto tx_error;
+		}
+
 		if (!ifindex)
 			ifindex = sock4->sock->sk->sk_bound_dev_if;
 

@@ -2534,10 +2540,16 @@ void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 				    ipcb_flags);
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
 	} else {
-		struct vxlan_sock *sock6 = rcu_dereference(vxlan->vn6_sock);
+		struct vxlan_sock *sock6;
 		struct in6_addr saddr;
 		u16 ip6cb_flags = 0;
 
+		sock6 = rcu_dereference(vxlan->vn6_sock);
+		if (unlikely(!sock6)) {
+			reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_READY;
+			goto tx_error;
+		}
+
 		if (!ifindex)
 			ifindex = sock6->sock->sk->sk_bound_dev_if;