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They differ once the device is\ncreated in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in.\nThe rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev),\nso a caller privileged there but not in geneve->net can rewrite a geneve\ndevice whose underlay lives in geneve->net.\n\ngeneve_changelink() applies the new configuration against geneve->net:\ngeneve_link_config() and the geneve_quiesce()/geneve_unquiesce() pair\nreopen the underlay sockets in that netns (geneve_sock_add() uses\ngeneve->net), so the same reasoning as the tunnel changelink series\napplies here.\n\nGate geneve_changelink() with rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(), at the top of\nthe op before any attribute is parsed, matching ipgre_changelink() and\nthe rest of the \"require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for\nchangelink\" series.\n\nFound by 0sec automated security-research tooling 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