CVE-2026-23310
bpf/bonding: reject vlan+srcmac xmit_hash_policy change when XDP is loaded
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 25, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Jan 13, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf/bonding: reject vlan+srcmac xmit_hash_policy change when XDP is loaded
bond_option_mode_set() already rejects mode changes that would make a loaded XDP program incompatible via bond_xdp_check(). However, bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set() has no such guard.
For 802.3ad and balance-xor modes, bond_xdp_check() returns false when xmit_hash_policy is vlan+srcmac, because the 802.1q payload is usually absent due to hardware offload. This means a user can:
1. Attach a native XDP program to a bond in 802.3ad/balance-xor mode with a compatible xmit_hash_policy (e.g. layer2+3). 2. Change xmit_hash_policy to vlan+srcmac while XDP remains loaded.
This leaves bond->xdp_prog set but bond_xdp_check() now returning false for the same device. When the bond is later destroyed, dev_xdp_uninstall() calls bond_xdp_set(dev, NULL, NULL) to remove the program, which hits the bond_xdp_check() guard and returns -EOPNOTSUPP, triggering:
WARN_ON(dev_xdp_install(dev, mode, bpf_op, NULL, 0, NULL))
Fix this by rejecting xmit_hash_policy changes to vlan+srcmac when an XDP program is loaded on a bond in 802.3ad or balance-xor mode.
commit 39a0876d595b ("net, bonding: Disallow vlan+srcmac with XDP") introduced bond_xdp_check() which returns false for 802.3ad/balance-xor modes when xmit_hash_policy is vlan+srcmac. The check was wired into bond_xdp_set() to reject XDP attachment with an incompatible policy, but the symmetric path -- preventing xmit_hash_policy from being changed to an incompatible value after XDP is already loaded -- was left unguarded in bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set().
Note: commit 094ee6017ea0 ("bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode") later added a similar guard to bond_option_mode_set(), but bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set() remained unprotected.
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a80e6ecaf669c77260b44254f4a84d76bf83e89
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c262bd0e39320a6d6c8277cb8349ce21c01b8c1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d36ad7e126c6a0c5f699583309ccc37e3a3263ea
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ace8027e41f6f094ef6c1aca42d2ed6cd7af54e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e85fa809e507b9d8eff4840888b8c727e4e8448c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/479d589b40b836442bbdadc3fdb37f001bb67f26
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html
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