kernel/linux.git/net/ipv4/esp4.c, branch v6.6.131

esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto

2026-04-02T11:07:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0c0eef8ccd2413b0a10eb6bbd3442333b1e64dd2 ] When the TX queue for espintcp is full, esp_output_tail_tcp will return an error and not free the skb, because with synchronous crypto, the common xfrm output code will drop the packet for us. With async crypto (esp_output_done), we need to drop the skb when esp_output_tail_tcp returns an error. Fixes: e27cca96cd68 ("xfrm: add espintcp (RFC 8229)") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xfrm: Fix the usage of skb->sk

2026-04-02T11:07:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1620c88887b16940e00dbe57dd38c74eda9bad9e ] xfrm assumed to always have a full socket at skb->sk. This is not always true, so fix it by converting to a full socket before it is used. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Stable-dep-of: 0c0eef8ccd24 ("esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

espintcp: fix skb leaks

2025-11-24T09:30:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit 63c1f19a3be3169e51a5812d22a6d0c879414076 ] A few error paths are missing a kfree_skb. Fixes: e27cca96cd68 ("xfrm: add espintcp (RFC 8229)") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert [ Minor context change fixed. ] Signed-off-by: Ruohan Lan Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

espintcp: remove encap socket caching to avoid reference leak

2025-06-04T12:42:17+00:00

[ Upstream commit 028363685bd0b7a19b4a820f82dd905b1dc83999 ] The current scheme for caching the encap socket can lead to reference leaks when we try to delete the netns. The reference chain is: xfrm_state -> enacp_sk -> netns Since the encap socket is a userspace socket, it holds a reference on the netns. If we delete the espintcp state (through flush or individual delete) before removing the netns, the reference on the socket is dropped and the netns is correctly deleted. Otherwise, the netns may not be reachable anymore (if all processes within the ns have terminated), so we cannot delete the xfrm state to drop its reference on the socket. This patch results in a small (~2% in my tests) performance regression. A GC-type mechanism could be added for the socket cache, to clear references if the state hasn't been used "recently", but it's a lot more complex than just not caching the socket. Fixes: e27cca96cd68 ("xfrm: add espintcp (RFC 8229)") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: esp: cleanup esp_output_tail_tcp() in case of unsupported ESPINTCP

2024-08-03T06:53:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 96f887a612e4cda89efc3f54bc10c1997e3ab0e9 ] xmit() functions should consume skb or return error codes in error paths. When the configuration "CONFIG_INET_ESPINTCP" is not set, the implementation of the function "esp_output_tail_tcp" violates this rule. The function frees the skb and returns the error code. This change removes the kfree_skb from both functions, for both esp4 and esp6. WARN_ON is added because esp_output_tail_tcp() should never be called if CONFIG_INET_ESPINTCP is not set. This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc. Fixes: e27cca96cd68 ("xfrm: add espintcp (RFC 8229)") Signed-off-by: Hagar Hemdan Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: esp: fix bad handling of pages from page_pool

2024-04-03T13:28:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit c3198822c6cb9fb588e446540485669cc81c5d34 ] When the skb is reorganized during esp_output (!esp->inline), the pages coming from the original skb fragments are supposed to be released back to the system through put_page. But if the skb fragment pages are originating from a page_pool, calling put_page on them will trigger a page_pool leak which will eventually result in a crash. This leak can be easily observed when using CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and doing ipsec + gre (non offloaded) forwarding: BUG: Bad page state in process ksoftirqd/16 pfn:1451b6 page:00000000de2b8d32 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1451b6000 pfn:0x1451b6 flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2) page_type: 0xffffffff() raw: 0200000000000000 dead000000000040 ffff88810d23c000 0000000000000000 raw: 00000001451b6000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: page_pool leak Modules linked in: ip_gre gre mlx5_ib mlx5_core xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat nf_nat xt_addrtype br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm ib_uverbs ib_core overlay zram zsmalloc fuse [last unloaded: mlx5_core] CPU: 16 PID: 96 Comm: ksoftirqd/16 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc4+ #22 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x36/0x50 bad_page+0x70/0xf0 free_unref_page_prepare+0x27a/0x460 free_unref_page+0x38/0x120 esp_ssg_unref.isra.0+0x15f/0x200 esp_output_tail+0x66d/0x780 esp_xmit+0x2c5/0x360 validate_xmit_xfrm+0x313/0x370 ? validate_xmit_skb+0x1d/0x330 validate_xmit_skb_list+0x4c/0x70 sch_direct_xmit+0x23e/0x350 __dev_queue_xmit+0x337/0xba0 ? nf_hook_slow+0x3f/0xd0 ip_finish_output2+0x25e/0x580 iptunnel_xmit+0x19b/0x240 ip_tunnel_xmit+0x5fb/0xb60 ipgre_xmit+0x14d/0x280 [ip_gre] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc3/0x1c0 __dev_queue_xmit+0x208/0xba0 ? nf_hook_slow+0x3f/0xd0 ip_finish_output2+0x1ca/0x580 ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x32/0x40 ip_sublist_rcv+0x1b2/0x1f0 ? ip_rcv_finish_core.constprop.0+0x460/0x460 ip_list_rcv+0x103/0x130 __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x181/0x1e0 netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1b3/0x2c0 napi_gro_receive+0xc8/0x200 gro_cell_poll+0x52/0x90 __napi_poll+0x25/0x1a0 net_rx_action+0x28e/0x300 __do_softirq+0xc3/0x276 ? sort_range+0x20/0x20 run_ksoftirqd+0x1e/0x30 smpboot_thread_fn+0xa6/0x130 kthread+0xcd/0x100 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 The suggested fix is to introduce a new wrapper (skb_page_unref) that covers page refcounting for page_pool pages as well. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6a5bcd84e886 ("page_pool: Allow drivers to hint on SKB recycling") Reported-and-tested-by: Anatoli N.Chechelnickiy Reported-by: Ian Kumlien Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAA85sZvvHtrpTQRqdaOx6gd55zPAVsqMYk_Lwh4Md5knTq7AyA@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: ipv4: fix typo in comments

2023-10-25T09:38:07+00:00

The word "advertize" should be replaced by "advertise". Signed-off-by: Deming Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv4: fix return value check in esp_remove_trailer

2023-10-10T07:55:35+00:00

In esp_remove_trailer(), to avoid an unexpected result returned by pskb_trim, we should check the return value of pskb_trim(). Signed-off-by: Ma Ke Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert

net: ipv4: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree

2023-07-19T10:03:03+00:00

key might contain private part of the key, so better use kfree_sensitive to free it. Fixes: 38320c70d282 ("[IPSEC]: Use crypto_aead and authenc in ESP") Signed-off-by: Wang Ming Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv4: Remove completion function scaffolding

2023-02-13T10:35:15+00:00

This patch removes the temporary scaffolding now that the comletion function signature has been converted. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu