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 3/6] xfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx()
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:07:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260610140800.2562818-4-steffen.klassert@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260610140800.2562818-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
From: Sanghyun Park <sanghyun.park.cnu@gmail.com>
Fix the race by pruning the bin while still holding xfrm_policy_lock,
before dropping it. Use __xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin() directly since
the lock is already held. The wrapper xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin()
becomes unused and is removed.
Race:
CPU0 (XFRM_MSG_DELPOLICY) CPU1 (XFRM_MSG_NEWSPDINFO)
========================== ==========================
xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx():
spin_lock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock)
bin = xfrm_policy_inexact_lookup()
__xfrm_policy_unlink(pol)
spin_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock)
xfrm_policy_kill(ret)
// wide window, lock not held
xfrm_hash_rebuild():
spin_lock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock)
__xfrm_policy_inexact_flush():
kfree_rcu(bin) // bin freed
spin_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock)
xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(bin)
// UAF: bin is freed
Fixes: 6be3b0db6db8 ("xfrm: policy: add inexact policy search tree infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Sanghyun Park <sanghyun.park.cnu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 13 ++-----------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index dd09d2063da2..959544425692 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -1156,15 +1156,6 @@ static void __xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(struct xfrm_pol_inexact_bin *b, bool
}
}
-static void xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(struct xfrm_pol_inexact_bin *b)
-{
- struct net *net = read_pnet(&b->k.net);
-
- spin_lock_bh(&net->xfrm.xfrm_policy_lock);
- __xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(b, false);
- spin_unlock_bh(&net->xfrm.xfrm_policy_lock);
-}
-
static void __xfrm_policy_inexact_flush(struct net *net)
{
struct xfrm_pol_inexact_bin *bin, *t;
@@ -1707,12 +1698,12 @@ xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx(struct net *net, const struct xfrm_mark *mark, u32 if_id,
}
ret = pol;
}
+ if (bin && delete)
+ __xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(bin, false);
spin_unlock_bh(&net->xfrm.xfrm_policy_lock);
if (ret && delete)
xfrm_policy_kill(ret);
- if (bin && delete)
- xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(bin);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-10 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-10 14:07 [PATCH 0/6] pull request (net): ipsec 2026-06-10 Steffen Klassert
2026-06-10 14:07 ` [PATCH 1/6] xfrm: iptfs: preserve shared-frag marker in iptfs_consume_frags() Steffen Klassert
2026-06-10 14:07 ` [PATCH 2/6] xfrm: iptfs: fix use-after-free on first_skb in __input_process_payload Steffen Klassert
2026-06-10 14:07 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2026-06-10 14:07 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfrm: iptfs: fix ABBA deadlock in iptfs_destroy_state() Steffen Klassert
2026-06-10 14:07 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfrm: espintcp: do not reuse an in-progress partial send Steffen Klassert
2026-06-10 14:07 ` [PATCH 6/6] esp: fix page frag reference leak on skb_to_sgvec failure Steffen Klassert
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