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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 09/10] xfrm6: clear dst.dev on error to avoid double netdev_put in xfrm6_fill_dst()
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:03:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710090349.343389-10-steffen.klassert@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260710090349.343389-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>

From: "Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>

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>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
 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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-10  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-10  9:03 [PATCH 0/10] pull request (net): ipsec 2026-07-10 Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 01/10] xfrm: propagate -EINPROGRESS from validate_xmit_xfrm() Steffen Klassert
2026-07-11 11:00   ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 02/10] xfrm: fix stale skb->prev after async crypto steals a GSO segment Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 03/10] xfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 04/10] xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy() Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 05/10] xfrm: cache the offload ifindex for netlink dumps Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 06/10] xfrm: reject optional IPTFS templates in outbound policies Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 07/10] xfrm: clear mode callbacks after failed mode setup Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 08/10] xfrm: iptfs: propagate SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG in iptfs_skb_add_frags() Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10  9:03 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2026-07-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert Steffen Klassert

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