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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 8/8] xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:50:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729065035.1591985-9-steffen.klassert@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729065035.1591985-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>

From: Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>

attach_auth_trunc() can allocate x->aalg while leaving
x->props.aalgo at zero when the selected auth algorithm has no
sadb_alg_id. One real case is cmac(aes).

xfrm_state_construct() then treats !x->props.aalgo as "no auth
algorithm attached yet" and calls attach_auth(). That overwrites
x->aalg and loses the first allocation. Any later failure or teardown
only frees the replacement pointer.

Check whether x->aalg is already attached instead of inferring that
state from x->props.aalgo.

Fixes: 4447bb33f094 ("xfrm: Store aalg in xfrm_state with a user specified truncation length")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Signed-off-by: Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <enjou1224z@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index d6db63304ba6..6266a92cf302 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ static struct xfrm_state *xfrm_state_construct(struct net *net,
 	if ((err = attach_auth_trunc(&x->aalg, &x->props.aalgo,
 				     attrs[XFRMA_ALG_AUTH_TRUNC], extack)))
 		goto error;
-	if (!x->props.aalgo) {
+	if (!x->aalg) {
 		if ((err = attach_auth(&x->aalg, &x->props.aalgo,
 				       attrs[XFRMA_ALG_AUTH], extack)))
 			goto error;
-- 
2.43.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-29  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-29  6:50 [PATCH 0/8] pull request (net): ipsec 2026-07-29 Steffen Klassert
2026-07-29  6:50 ` [PATCH 1/8] xfrm6: fix out-of-bounds write in xfrm6_input_addr() when secpath is full Steffen Klassert
2026-07-29  6:50 ` [PATCH 2/8] esp: do not unref managed frag pages in esp_ssg_unref() Steffen Klassert
2026-07-29  6:50 ` [PATCH 3/8] xfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close Steffen Klassert
2026-07-29  6:50 ` [PATCH 4/8] xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device Steffen Klassert
2026-07-29  6:50 ` [PATCH 5/8] xfrm: avoid lock inversion in nat keepalive work Steffen Klassert
2026-07-29  6:50 ` [PATCH 6/8] xfrm: Fix skb double-free in xfrm_dev_direct_output() Steffen Klassert
2026-07-29  6:50 ` [PATCH 7/8] xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left Steffen Klassert
2026-07-29  6:50 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]

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