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 03/10] xfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:03:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710090349.343389-4-steffen.klassert@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260710090349.343389-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
From: Qianyu Luo <qianyuluo3@gmail.com>
nat_keepalive_send() frees the keepalive skb whenever the IPv4 or IPv6
send helper reports an error.
That cleanup is only correct before the skb is handed to the output
path. Once ip_build_and_send_pkt() or ip6_xmit() takes ownership, the
networking stack may already have consumed the skb before returning an
error, so freeing it again is unsafe.
Handle the pre-handoff failure cases inside nat_keepalive_send_ipv4()
and nat_keepalive_send_ipv6(), where the caller still owns the skb, and
keep nat_keepalive_send() responsible only for family dispatch and the
unsupported-family cleanup path.
Fixes: f531d13bdfe3 ("xfrm: support sending NAT keepalives in ESP in UDP states")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Qianyu Luo <qianyuluo3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c
index 458931062a04..eb1b6f67739e 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c
@@ -55,8 +55,10 @@ static int nat_keepalive_send_ipv4(struct sk_buff *skb,
ka->encap_sport, sock_net_uid(net, NULL));
rt = ip_route_output_key(net, &fl4);
- if (IS_ERR(rt))
+ if (IS_ERR(rt)) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
return PTR_ERR(rt);
+ }
skb_dst_set(skb, &rt->dst);
@@ -101,6 +103,7 @@ static int nat_keepalive_send_ipv6(struct sk_buff *skb,
dst = ip6_dst_lookup_flow(net, sk, &fl6, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(dst)) {
local_unlock_nested_bh(&nat_keepalive_sk_ipv6.bh_lock);
+ kfree_skb(skb);
return PTR_ERR(dst);
}
@@ -118,7 +121,6 @@ static void nat_keepalive_send(struct nat_keepalive *ka)
sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)) +
sizeof(struct udphdr);
const u8 nat_ka_payload = 0xFF;
- int err = -EAFNOSUPPORT;
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct udphdr *uh;
@@ -140,16 +142,17 @@ static void nat_keepalive_send(struct nat_keepalive *ka)
switch (ka->family) {
case AF_INET:
- err = nat_keepalive_send_ipv4(skb, ka);
+ nat_keepalive_send_ipv4(skb, ka);
break;
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
case AF_INET6:
- err = nat_keepalive_send_ipv6(skb, ka, uh);
+ nat_keepalive_send_ipv6(skb, ka, uh);
break;
#endif
- }
- if (err)
+ default:
kfree_skb(skb);
+ break;
+ }
}
struct nat_keepalive_work_ctx {
--
2.43.0
next prev 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 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
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 ` [PATCH 09/10] xfrm6: clear dst.dev on error to avoid double netdev_put in xfrm6_fill_dst() Steffen Klassert
2026-07-10 9:03 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert Steffen Klassert
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