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Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: add missing RCU read lock in xfrm_send_migrate_state()
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:06:20 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f866679-25c2-4b17-9fa6-086d4c3b593f@mail.kernel.org> (raw)
From: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
xfrm_nlmsg_multicast() requires the RCU read lock to be held because it
safely dereferences the net->xfrm.nlsk pointer using rcu_dereference().
When it is called from xfrm_send_migrate_state(), the RCU read lock is not
held, which triggers a suspicious RCU usage warning:
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:1630 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
Call Trace:
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x13f/0x1d0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6876
xfrm_nlmsg_multicast+0x1d8/0x1f0 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:1630
xfrm_send_migrate_state+0x870/0xae0 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3340
xfrm_do_migrate_state+0x1749/0x1e90 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3507
xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x7a8/0xf30 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3907
Fix this by wrapping the xfrm_nlmsg_multicast() call in
xfrm_send_migrate_state() with rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().
Fixes: a9d155ea9b44 ("xfrm: add XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE for single SA migration")
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.5-flash Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview syzbot
Reported-by: syzbot+c0e99a1aa85a286d7a3b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c0e99a1aa85a286d7a3b
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/ai_job?id=8977f559-3a7e-4bb5-b4d6-1196956260b6
Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
---
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index d6db63304..0ba0614d6 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -3337,7 +3337,11 @@ static int xfrm_send_migrate_state(struct net *net,
return err;
}
- return xfrm_nlmsg_multicast(net, skb, 0, XFRMNLGRP_MIGRATE);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ err = xfrm_nlmsg_multicast(net, skb, 0, XFRMNLGRP_MIGRATE);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ return err;
}
static int xfrm_do_migrate_state(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
base-commit: f5098b6bae761e346ebcd9da7f95622c04733cff
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2026-07-31 10:06 syzbot [this message]
2026-08-24 5:01 ` [PATCH] xfrm: add missing RCU read lock in xfrm_send_migrate_state() Steffen Klassert
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