From: Jun Yang <juny24602@gmail.com>
To: steffen.klassert@secunet.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, nakam@linux-ipv6.org,
shinta.sugimoto@ericsson.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jun Yang <junvyyang@tencent.com>,
stable@kernel.org, TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@tencent.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] xfrm: hold migrated state references through xfrm_migrate()
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 17:14:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106091511.45429-1-juny24602@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Jun Yang <junvyyang@tencent.com>
xfrm_state_migrate_install() transfers the cloned state's allocation
reference to the state table. xfrm_state_migrate() returns the state
without a caller reference, and xfrm_migrate() saves it in x_new[].
If a later migration step fails, xfrm_migrate() deletes those states
during rollback. A concurrent deletion, for example from the expiry
timer, can drop the table reference and free a state before rollback
calls xfrm_state_delete().
Take a caller reference before installing each clone. Drop it if
installation fails, after a successful migration, or after deleting the
new states on rollback.
Fixes: 80c9abaabf42 ("[XFRM]: Extension for dynamic update of endpoint address(es)")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Yang <junvyyang@tencent.com>
---
A KASAN reproducer for this issue is available if requested.
net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 7 ++++++-
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index 9ea60c7717ff..06aa036701c3 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -4726,6 +4726,9 @@ int xfrm_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type,
xfrm_states_delete(x_cur, nx_cur);
}
+ if (nx_new)
+ xfrm_states_put(x_new, nx_new);
+
/* Stage 5 - announce */
km_migrate(sel, dir, type, m, num_migrate, k, net, encap);
@@ -4740,8 +4743,10 @@ restore_state:
xfrm_pol_put(pol);
if (nx_cur)
xfrm_states_put(x_cur, nx_cur);
- if (nx_new)
+ if (nx_new) {
xfrm_states_delete(x_new, nx_new);
+ xfrm_states_put(x_new, nx_new);
+ }
return err;
}
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index e45aa1ed5b96..aa97acaacd64 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -2220,8 +2220,12 @@ struct xfrm_state *xfrm_state_migrate(struct xfrm_state *x,
xfrm_migrate_sync(xc, x);
- if (xfrm_state_migrate_install(x, xc, m, extack) < 0)
+ /* Keep a caller reference after installation transfers ownership. */
+ xfrm_state_hold(xc);
+ if (xfrm_state_migrate_install(x, xc, m, extack) < 0) {
+ xfrm_state_put(xc);
return NULL;
+ }
return xc;
}
--
2.43.7
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