kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6/esp6.c, branch v6.12.80

esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto

2026-04-02T11:09:30+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

2026-04-02T11:09:30+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: remove encap socket caching to avoid reference leak

2025-05-29T09:03:14+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

espintcp: fix skb leaks

2025-05-29T09:03:13+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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: support non paged skb frags

2024-09-12T03:44:31+00:00

Make skb_frag_page() fail in the case where the frag is not backed by a page, and fix its relevant callers to handle this case. Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240910171458.219195-8-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2024-05-23T06:46:03+00:00

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

Merge tag 'ipsec-next-2024-05-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next

2024-05-07T02:14:56+00:00

Steffen Klassert says: ==================== pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2024-05-03 1) Remove Obsolete UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP_NON_IKE Support. This was defined by an early version of an IETF draft that did not make it to a standard. 2) Introduce direction attribute for xfrm states. xfrm states have a direction, a stsate can be used either for input or output packet processing. Add a direction to xfrm states to make it clear for what a xfrm state is used. * tag 'ipsec-next-2024-05-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next: xfrm: Restrict SA direction attribute to specific netlink message types xfrm: Add dir validation to "in" data path lookup xfrm: Add dir validation to "out" data path lookup xfrm: Add Direction to the SA in or out udpencap: Remove Obsolete UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP_NON_IKE Support ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503082732.2835810-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

udpencap: Remove Obsolete UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP_NON_IKE Support

2024-04-18T09:38:23+00:00

The UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP_NON_IKE mode, introduced into the Linux kernel in 2004 [2], has remained inactive and obsolete for an extended period. This mode was originally defined in an early version of an IETF draft [1] from 2001. By the time it was integrated into the kernel in 2004 [2], it had already been replaced by UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP [3] in later versions of draft-ietf-ipsec-udp-encaps, particularly in version 06. Over time, UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP_NON_IKE has lost its relevance, with no known use cases. With this commit, we remove support for UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP_NON_IKE, simplifying the codebase and eliminating unnecessary complexity. Kernel will return an error -ENOPROTOOPT if the userspace tries to set this option. References: [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-ipsec-udp-encaps-00.txt [2] Commit that added UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP_NON_IKE to the Linux historic repository. Author: Andreas Gruenbacher Date: Fri Apr 9 01:47:47 2004 -0700 [IPSEC]: Support draft-ietf-ipsec-udp-encaps-00/01, some ipec impls need it. [3] Commit that added UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP to the Linux historic repository. Author: Derek Atkins Date: Wed Apr 2 13:21:02 2003 -0800 [IPSEC]: Implement UDP Encapsulation framework. Signed-off-by: Antony Antony Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert

net: move skb ref helpers to new header

2024-04-12T02:29:22+00:00

Add a new header, linux/skbuff_ref.h, which contains all the skb_*_ref() helpers. Many of the consumers of skbuff.h do not actually use any of the skb ref helpers, and we can speed up compilation a bit by minimizing this header file. Additionally in the later patch in the series we add page_pool support to skb_frag_ref(), which requires some page_pool dependencies. We can now add these dependencies to skbuff_ref.h instead of a very ubiquitous skbuff.h Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240410190505.1225848-2-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: make napi_frag_unref reuse skb_page_unref

2024-04-10T01:20:29+00:00

The implementations of these 2 functions are almost identical. Remove the implementation of napi_frag_unref, and make it a call into skb_page_unref so we don't duplicate the implementation. Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408153000.2152844-2-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski