* [PATCH ipsec] xfrm6: clear dst.dev on error to avoid double netdev_put in xfrm6_fill_dst()
@ 2026-07-02 1:05 Xiang Mei (Microsoft)
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From: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) @ 2026-07-02 1:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steffen Klassert, Herbert Xu, David S . Miller, netdev
Cc: Simon Horman, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
AutonomousCodeSecurity, tgopinath, kys, Xiang Mei (Microsoft)
On the error path where in6_dev_get(dev) returns NULL, xfrm6_fill_dst()
releases the device reference with netdev_put() but leaves
xdst->u.dst.dev set. dst_destroy() later calls netdev_put(dst->dev)
again, so the same net_device reference is released twice, underflowing
its refcount (ref_tracker WARNING + "unregister_netdevice: waiting for
<dev> to become free").
Clear xdst->u.dst.dev after the netdev_put(), the same way the XFRM
device-offload paths xfrm_dev_state_add() and xfrm_dev_policy_add() in
net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c NULL ->dev when releasing the reference on error.
ref_tracker: reference already released.
ref_tracker: allocated in:
xfrm6_fill_dst (net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:86)
...
udpv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/udp.c:1696)
...
ref_tracker: freed in:
xfrm6_fill_dst (net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:90)
...
WARNING: lib/ref_tracker.c:322 at ref_tracker_free+0x58b/0x780
dst_destroy (net/core/dst.c:115)
rcu_core
handle_softirqs
...
Fixes: 84c4a9dfbf43 ("xfrm6: release dev before returning error")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
index 125ea9a5b8a0..3b749475f6ed 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ static int xfrm6_fill_dst(struct xfrm_dst *xdst, struct net_device *dev,
xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
if (!xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev) {
netdev_put(dev, &xdst->u.dst.dev_tracker);
+ xdst->u.dst.dev = NULL;
return -ENODEV;
}
--
2.43.0
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