From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 18/20] xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:33:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260323083440.2741292-19-steffen.klassert@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260323083440.2741292-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
From: Minwoo Ra <raminwo0202@gmail.com>
A XFRM_MSG_NEWSPDINFO request can queue the per-net work item
policy_hthresh.work onto the system workqueue.
The queued callback, xfrm_hash_rebuild(), retrieves the enclosing
struct net via container_of(). If the net namespace is torn down
before that work runs, the associated struct net may already have
been freed, and xfrm_hash_rebuild() may then dereference stale memory.
xfrm_policy_fini() already flushes policy_hash_work during teardown,
but it does not synchronize policy_hthresh.work.
Synchronize policy_hthresh.work in xfrm_policy_fini() as well, so the
queued work cannot outlive the net namespace teardown and access a
freed struct net.
Fixes: 880a6fab8f6b ("xfrm: configure policy hash table thresholds by netlink")
Signed-off-by: Minwoo Ra <raminwo0202@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index 66ac93e65264..2140ee7b102d 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -4282,6 +4282,8 @@ static void xfrm_policy_fini(struct net *net)
unsigned int sz;
int dir;
+ disable_work_sync(&net->xfrm.policy_hthresh.work);
+
flush_work(&net->xfrm.policy_hash_work);
#ifdef CONFIG_XFRM_SUB_POLICY
xfrm_policy_flush(net, XFRM_POLICY_TYPE_SUB, false);
--
2.43.0
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-23 8:33 [PATCH 0/20] pull request (net): ipsec 2026-03-23 Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 01/20] xfrm: add missing extack for XFRMA_SA_PCPU in add_acquire and allocspi Steffen Klassert
2026-03-24 14:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 02/20] xfrm: fix the condition on x->pcpu_num in xfrm_sa_len Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 03/20] xfrm: call xdo_dev_state_delete during state update Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 04/20] esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 05/20] xfrm: iptfs: validate inner IPv4 header length in IPTFS payload Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 06/20] xfrm: iptfs: fix skb_put() panic on non-linear skb during reassembly Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 07/20] xfrm: state: fix sparse warnings on xfrm_state_hold_rcu Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 08/20] xfrm: state: fix sparse warnings in xfrm_state_init Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 09/20] xfrm: state: fix sparse warnings around XFRM_STATE_INSERT Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 10/20] xfrm: state: add xfrm_state_deref_prot to state_by* walk under lock Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 11/20] xfrm: remove rcu/state_hold from xfrm_state_lookup_spi_proto Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 12/20] xfrm: state: silence sparse warnings during netns exit Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 13/20] xfrm: policy: fix sparse warnings in xfrm_policy_{init,fini} Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 14/20] xfrm: policy: silence sparse warning in xfrm_policy_unregister_afinfo Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 15/20] xfrm: add rcu_access_pointer to silence sparse warning for xfrm_input_afinfo Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 16/20] xfrm: avoid RCU warnings around the per-netns netlink socket Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` [PATCH 17/20] xfrm: Fix work re-schedule after cancel in xfrm_nat_keepalive_net_fini() Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:33 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2026-03-23 8:34 ` [PATCH 19/20] af_key: validate families in pfkey_send_migrate() Steffen Klassert
2026-03-23 8:34 ` [PATCH 20/20] xfrm: iptfs: only publish mode_data after clone setup Steffen Klassert
2026-03-24 11:33 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-03-24 11:52 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-03-24 12:35 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-03-24 12:40 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-03-24 14:22 ` Paolo Abeni
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