From: "Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: fw@strlen.de, steffen.klassert@secunet.com,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: horms@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com,
tgopinath@linux.microsoft.com, kys@microsoft.com,
"Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH ipsec v2] xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 05:19:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260703051932.966884-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
xfrm_hash_rebuild()'s first loop preallocates the bins/chains the reinsert
loop needs, so the reinsert (after hlist_del_rcu()) cannot allocate or
fail. But its guard is inverted: it skips policies with prefixlen <
threshold and preallocates for the rest.
prefixlen < threshold is exactly when policy_hash_bysel() returns NULL and
the reinsert takes the allocating xfrm_policy_inexact_insert() path. So the
loop preallocates for the exact policies (which never allocate) and skips
the inexact ones, whose bin/node is then allocated GFP_ATOMIC during
reinsert. On failure the error path only WARN_ONCE()s and continues,
leaving a poisoned bydst node; the next rebuild's hlist_del_rcu()
dereferences LIST_POISON2 and takes a GPF. Reachable under memory pressure,
deterministic via failslab.
Invert the guard so preallocation covers exactly the reinserted policies;
the reinsert then allocates nothing and cannot fail.
Crash:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xfbd59c0000000024: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead...]
...
Workqueue: events xfrm_hash_rebuild
RIP: 0010:xfrm_hash_rebuild+0x5b3/0x1190
RAX: dead000000000122 (LIST_POISON2 + offset)
...
Call Trace:
hlist_del_rcu (include/linux/rculist.h:599)
xfrm_hash_rebuild (net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:1365)
process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)
worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3486)
kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)
ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Fixes: 24969facd704 ("xfrm: policy: store inexact policies in an rhashtable")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
v2: fix the inverted preallocation guard (root cause)
instead of avoiding crash
net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index 7ef861a0e823..932a313b9460 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -1329,8 +1329,8 @@ static void xfrm_hash_rebuild(struct work_struct *work)
}
}
- if (policy->selector.prefixlen_d < dbits ||
- policy->selector.prefixlen_s < sbits)
+ if (policy->selector.prefixlen_d >= dbits &&
+ policy->selector.prefixlen_s >= sbits)
continue;
bin = xfrm_policy_inexact_alloc_bin(policy, dir);
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-03 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-03 5:19 Xiang Mei (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-07-03 5:47 ` [PATCH ipsec v2] xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert Florian Westphal
2026-07-07 6:35 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-07-03 6:18 ` Manuel Ebner
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