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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Cc: Pavel Zhigulin <Pavel.Zhigulin@kaspersky.com>,
	Ayush Sawal <ayush.sawal@chelsio.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>, Harsh Jain <harsh@chelsio.com>,
	Atul Gupta <atul.gupta@chelsio.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lvc-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix potential use-after-free in ch_ipsec_xfrm_add_state() callback
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 11:03:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251006110317.39d08275@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0cef998-0d49-4a52-b1b8-2f89b81d4b07@linux.dev>

On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 21:28:51 -0700 Zhu Yanjun wrote:
> When the function ch_ipsec_xfrm_add_state is called, the kernel module 
> cannot be in the GOING or UNFORMED state.

That was my intuition as well, but on a quick look module state is set
to GOING before ->exit() is called. So this function can in fact fail
to acquire a reference.

Could you share your exact analysis?

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-06 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-01 11:16 [PATCH] net: fix potential use-after-free in ch_ipsec_xfrm_add_state() callback Pavel Zhigulin
2025-10-04  4:28 ` Zhu Yanjun
2025-10-06 18:03   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-10-06 18:27     ` Yanjun.Zhu

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