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bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}
authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Fri, 3 Oct 2025 07:34:18 +0000 (09:34 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:23:09 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
commit2e67c2037382abb56497bb9d7b7e10be04eb5598
treeaf3ffb092810f2cbcbba1283b771215f273cdd4d
parent429eaced61cf759e727d661ecca68ebd5ffcc5ed
bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}

[ Upstream commit 23f3770e1a53e6c7a553135011f547209e141e72 ]

Cilium has a BPF egress gateway feature which forces outgoing K8s Pod
traffic to pass through dedicated egress gateways which then SNAT the
traffic in order to interact with stable IPs outside the cluster.

The traffic is directed to the gateway via vxlan tunnel in collect md
mode. A recent BPF change utilized the bpf_redirect_neigh() helper to
forward packets after the arrival and decap on vxlan, which turned out
over time that the kmalloc-256 slab usage in kernel was ever-increasing.

The issue was that vxlan allocates the metadata_dst object and attaches
it through a fake dst entry to the skb. The latter was never released
though given bpf_redirect_neigh() was merely setting the new dst entry
via skb_dst_set() without dropping an existing one first.

Fixes: b4ab31414970 ("bpf: Add redirect_neigh helper as redirect drop-in")
Reported-by: Yusuke Suzuki <yusuke.suzuki@isovalent.com>
Reported-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003073418.291171-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/core/filter.c