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From: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
	Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Cc: Boris Pismenny <borisp@nvidia.com>,
	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: macsec: free SC lookup entries after an RCU grace period
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:21:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <179285888829.90275.17386097105525068016@gmail.com> (raw)

macsec_del_rxsc_ctx() removes rx_sc->sc_xarray_element from
macsec->sc_xarray with xa_erase() and frees it with kfree() right away.
mlx5e_macsec_offload_handle_rx_skb() looks the element up with
xa_load() under rcu_read_lock() and then dereferences ->rx_sc, so an RX
completion that loaded the element just before xa_erase() reads freed
memory. rx_sc itself is already freed with kfree_rcu_mightsleep(); only
the element pointing to it was missed.

macsec_fs_id_del() has the same problem on the TX side: it removes
fs_id_found from the SCI rhashtable and frees it with kfree(), while
mlx5e_macsec_handle_tx_skb() and mlx5e_macsec_tx_build_eseg() read it
through mlx5_macsec_fs_get_fs_id_from_hashtable(), which uses
rhashtable_lookup() under rcu_read_lock().

Free both with kvfree_rcu_mightsleep(). Both run in process context
from the macsec offload ops, outside any spinlock, so sleeping is fine.

The sc_xarray_element issue was pointed out during review of
"net/mlx5e: macsec: fix use-after-free of metadata_dst on RX SC delete"
and left for a follow-up; this is that follow-up.

Fixes: b7c9400cbc48 ("net/mlx5e: Implement MACsec Rx data path using MACsec skb_metadata_dst")
Signed-off-by: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Yaga Agent HackerSec Claude:claude-opus-5-5
---
Testing: compile-tested only (arm64, W=1, CONFIG_MLX5_MACSEC=y, no new
warnings). I do not have MACsec-capable ConnectX hardware, so this was
not run on a real device and I have no reproducer against the driver
itself. The free-while-reader-holds-RCU pattern was reproduced with a
standalone test module under KASAN (slab-use-after-free on kmalloc-16),
and the same module showed no reports after switching to
kvfree_rcu_mightsleep().

 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/macsec_fs.c   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
index 38a3415ac..fb9126f6b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ static void macsec_del_rxsc_ctx(struct mlx5e_macsec *macsec, struct mlx5e_macsec
 	list_del_rcu(&rx_sc->rx_sc_list_element);
 	xa_erase(&macsec->sc_xarray, rx_sc->sc_xarray_element->fs_id);
 	dst_release(&rx_sc->md_dst->dst);
-	kfree(rx_sc->sc_xarray_element);
+	kvfree_rcu_mightsleep(rx_sc->sc_xarray_element);
 	kfree_rcu_mightsleep(rx_sc);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/macsec_fs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/macsec_fs.c
index efc516749..910fafe40 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/macsec_fs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/macsec_fs.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static void macsec_fs_id_del(struct list_head *macsec_devices_list, u32 fs_id,
 
 	xa_erase(fs_id_xa, fs_id);
 
-	kfree(fs_id_found);
+	kvfree_rcu_mightsleep(fs_id_found);
 
 	if (macsec_fs_is_macsec_device_empty(macsec_device)) {
 		list_del(&macsec_device->macsec_devices_list_entry);

             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-24 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-24 16:21 Joas Antonio dos Santos [this message]
2026-10-27 14:26 ` [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: macsec: free SC lookup entries after an RCU grace period Simon Horman
2026-10-27 21:27   ` Joas Antonio dos Santos

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