kernel/linux.git/net/xfrm, branch v6.1.168

xfrm: Fix the usage of skb->sk

2026-04-11T12:16:05+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

xfrm: call xdo_dev_state_delete during state update

2026-04-11T12:16:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7d2fc41f91bc69acb6e01b0fa23cd7d0109a6a23 ] When we update an SA, we construct a new state and call xdo_dev_state_add, but never insert it. The existing state is updated, then we immediately destroy the new state. Since we haven't added it, we don't go through the standard state delete code, and we're skipping removing it from the device (but xdo_dev_state_free will get called when we destroy the temporary state). This is similar to commit c5d4d7d83165 ("xfrm: Fix deletion of offloaded SAs on failure."). Fixes: d77e38e612a0 ("xfrm: Add an IPsec hardware offloading API") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xfrm: flush all states in xfrm_state_fini

2026-01-11T14:18:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 42e42562c9cfcdacf000f1b42284a4fad24f8546 ] While reverting commit f75a2804da39 ("xfrm: destroy xfrm_state synchronously on net exit path"), I incorrectly changed xfrm_state_flush's "proto" argument back to IPSEC_PROTO_ANY. This reverts some of the changes in commit dbb2483b2a46 ("xfrm: clean up xfrm protocol checks"), and leads to some states not being removed when we exit the netns. Pass 0 instead of IPSEC_PROTO_ANY from both xfrm_state_fini xfrm6_tunnel_net_exit, so that xfrm_state_flush deletes all states. Fixes: 2a198bbec691 ("Revert "xfrm: destroy xfrm_state synchronously on net exit path"") Reported-by: syzbot+6641a61fe0e2e89ae8c5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6641a61fe0e2e89ae8c5 Tested-by: syzbot+6641a61fe0e2e89ae8c5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xfrm: also call xfrm_state_delete_tunnel at destroy time for states that were never added

2026-01-11T14:18:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 10deb69864840ccf96b00ac2ab3a2055c0c04721 ] In commit b441cf3f8c4b ("xfrm: delete x->tunnel as we delete x"), I missed the case where state creation fails between full initialization (->init_state has been called) and being inserted on the lists. In this situation, ->init_state has been called, so for IPcomp tunnels, the fallback tunnel has been created and added onto the lists, but the user state never gets added, because we fail before that. The user state doesn't go through __xfrm_state_delete, so we don't call xfrm_state_delete_tunnel for those states, and we end up leaking the FB tunnel. There are several codepaths affected by this: the add/update paths, in both net/key and xfrm, and the migrate code (xfrm_migrate, xfrm_state_migrate). A "proper" rollback of the init_state work would probably be doable in the add/update code, but for migrate it gets more complicated as multiple states may be involved. At some point, the new (not-inserted) state will be destroyed, so call xfrm_state_delete_tunnel during xfrm_state_gc_destroy. Most states will have their fallback tunnel cleaned up during __xfrm_state_delete, which solves the issue that b441cf3f8c4b (and other patches before it) aimed at. All states (including FB tunnels) will be removed from the lists once xfrm_state_fini has called flush_work(&xfrm_state_gc_work). Reported-by: syzbot+999eb23467f83f9bf9bf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=999eb23467f83f9bf9bf Fixes: b441cf3f8c4b ("xfrm: delete x->tunnel as we delete x") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Revert "xfrm: destroy xfrm_state synchronously on net exit path"

2026-01-11T14:18:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2a198bbec6913ae1c90ec963750003c6213668c7 ] This reverts commit f75a2804da391571563c4b6b29e7797787332673. With all states (whether user or kern) removed from the hashtables during deletion, there's no need for synchronous destruction of states. xfrm6_tunnel states still need to have been destroyed (which will be the case when its last user is deleted (not destroyed)) so that xfrm6_tunnel_free_spi removes it from the per-netns hashtable before the netns is destroyed. This has the benefit of skipping one synchronize_rcu per state (in __xfrm_state_destroy(sync=true)) when we exit a netns. Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xfrm: delete x->tunnel as we delete x

2026-01-11T14:18:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit b441cf3f8c4b8576639d20c8eb4aa32917602ecd ] The ipcomp fallback tunnels currently get deleted (from the various lists and hashtables) as the last user state that needed that fallback is destroyed (not deleted). If a reference to that user state still exists, the fallback state will remain on the hashtables/lists, triggering the WARN in xfrm_state_fini. Because of those remaining references, the fix in commit f75a2804da39 ("xfrm: destroy xfrm_state synchronously on net exit path") is not complete. We recently fixed one such situation in TCP due to defered freeing of skbs (commit 9b6412e6979f ("tcp: drop secpath at the same time as we currently drop dst")). This can also happen due to IP reassembly: skbs with a secpath remain on the reassembly queue until netns destruction. If we can't guarantee that the queues are flushed by the time xfrm_state_fini runs, there may still be references to a (user) xfrm_state, preventing the timely deletion of the corresponding fallback state. Instead of chasing each instance of skbs holding a secpath one by one, this patch fixes the issue directly within xfrm, by deleting the fallback state as soon as the last user state depending on it has been deleted. Destruction will still happen when the final reference is dropped. A separate lockdep class for the fallback state is required since we're going to lock x->tunnel while x is locked. Fixes: 9d4139c76905 ("netns xfrm: per-netns xfrm_state_all list") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

espintcp: fix skb leaks

2025-12-06T21:12:34+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

xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface

2025-08-15T10:04:46+00:00

[ Upstream commit a90b2a1aaacbcf0f91d7e4868ad6c51c5dee814b ] collect_md property on xfrm interfaces can only be set on device creation, thus xfrmi_changelink() should fail when called on such interfaces. The check to enforce this was done only in the case where the xi was returned from xfrmi_locate() which doesn't look for the collect_md interface, and thus the validation was never reached. Calling changelink would thus errornously place the special interface xi in the xfrmi_net->xfrmi hash, but since it also exists in the xfrmi_net->collect_md_xfrmi pointer it would lead to a double free when the net namespace was taken down [1]. Change the check to use the xi from netdev_priv which is available earlier in the function to prevent changes in xfrm collect_md interfaces. [1] resulting oops: [ 8.516540] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:12029! [ 8.516552] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 8.516559] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u80:0 Not tainted 6.15.0-virtme #5 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 8.516565] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 8.516569] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net [ 8.516579] RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x101/0xab0 [ 8.516590] Code: 90 0f 0b 90 48 8b b0 78 01 00 00 48 8b 90 80 01 00 00 48 89 56 08 48 89 32 4c 89 80 78 01 00 00 48 89 b8 80 01 00 00 eb ac 90 <0f> 0b 48 8b 45 00 4c 8d a0 88 fe ff ff 48 39 c5 74 5c 41 80 bc 24 [ 8.516593] RSP: 0018:ffffa93b8006bd30 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 8.516598] RAX: ffff98fe4226e000 RBX: ffffa93b8006bd58 RCX: ffffa93b8006bc60 [ 8.516601] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: dead000000000122 [ 8.516603] RBP: ffffa93b8006bdd8 R08: dead000000000100 R09: ffff98fe4133c100 [ 8.516605] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000003d2 R12: ffffa93b8006be00 [ 8.516608] R13: ffffffff96c1a510 R14: ffffffff96c1a510 R15: ffffa93b8006be00 [ 8.516615] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff98fee73b7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 8.516619] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 8.516622] CR2: 00007fcd2abd0700 CR3: 000000003aa40000 CR4: 0000000000752ef0 [ 8.516625] PKRU: 55555554 [ 8.516627] Call Trace: [ 8.516632] [ 8.516635] ? rtnl_is_locked+0x15/0x20 [ 8.516641] ? unregister_netdevice_queue+0x29/0xf0 [ 8.516650] ops_undo_list+0x1f2/0x220 [ 8.516659] cleanup_net+0x1ad/0x2e0 [ 8.516664] process_one_work+0x160/0x380 [ 8.516673] worker_thread+0x2aa/0x3c0 [ 8.516679] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 8.516686] kthread+0xfb/0x200 [ 8.516690] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 8.516693] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 8.516697] ret_from_fork+0x82/0xf0 [ 8.516705] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 8.516709] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 8.516718] Fixes: abc340b38ba2 ("xfrm: interface: support collect metadata mode") Reported-by: Lonial Con Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xfrm: Sanitize marks before insert

2025-06-04T12:40:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0b91fda3a1f044141e1e615456ff62508c32b202 ] Prior to this patch, the mark is sanitized (applying the state's mask to the state's value) only on inserts when checking if a conflicting XFRM state or policy exists. We discovered in Cilium that this same sanitization does not occur in the hot-path __xfrm_state_lookup. In the hot-path, the sk_buff's mark is simply compared to the state's value: if ((mark & x->mark.m) != x->mark.v) continue; Therefore, users can define unsanitized marks (ex. 0xf42/0xf00) which will never match any packet. This commit updates __xfrm_state_insert and xfrm_policy_insert to store the sanitized marks, thus removing this footgun. This has the side effect of changing the ip output, as the returned mark will have the mask applied to it when printed. Fixes: 3d6acfa7641f ("xfrm: SA lookups with mark") Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon Signed-off-by: Louis DeLosSantos Co-developed-by: Louis DeLosSantos Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

espintcp: remove encap socket caching to avoid reference leak

2025-06-04T12:40:19+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