FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 14acf9652e5690de3c7486c6db5fb8dafd0a32a3
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026051213-nappy-veal-2d0a@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 14acf9652e5690de3c7486c6db5fb8dafd0a32a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Kosiorek <mkosiorek121@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:54:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in
 __xfrm_state_delete

KASAN reproduces a slab-use-after-free in __xfrm_state_delete()'s
hlist_del_rcu calls under syzkaller load on linux-6.12.y stable
(reproduced on 6.12.47, also reachable via the same code path on
torvalds/master and on the ipsec tree). Nine unique signatures cluster
in the xfrm_state lifecycle, the load-bearing one being:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __hlist_del include/linux/list.h:990 [inline]
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hlist_del_rcu include/linux/rculist.h:516 [inline]
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __xfrm_state_delete net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
  Write of size 8 at addr ffff8881198bcb70 by task kworker/u8:9/435

  Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
  Call Trace:
   __hlist_del / hlist_del_rcu
   __xfrm_state_delete
   xfrm_state_delete
   xfrm_state_flush
   xfrm_state_fini
   ops_exit_list
   cleanup_net

The other observed signatures hit the same slab object from
__xfrm_state_lookup, xfrm_alloc_spi, __xfrm_state_insert and an OOB
write variant of __xfrm_state_delete, all on the byseq/byspi
hash chains.

__xfrm_state_delete() guards its byseq and byspi unhashes with
value-based predicates:

	if (x->km.seq)
		hlist_del_rcu(&x->byseq);
	if (x->id.spi)
		hlist_del_rcu(&x->byspi);

while everywhere else in the file (e.g. state_cache, state_cache_input)
the safer hlist_unhashed() check is used. xfrm_alloc_spi() sets
x->id.spi = newspi inside xfrm_state_lock and then immediately inserts
into byspi, but a path that observes x->id.spi != 0 outside of
xfrm_state_lock can still skip-or-hit the byspi unhash inconsistently
with whether x is actually on the list. The same holds for x->km.seq
versus byseq, and the bydst/bysrc unhashes have no predicate at all,
so a second __xfrm_state_delete() on the same object writes through
LIST_POISON pprev.

The defensive change here:

  - Use hlist_del_init_rcu() instead of hlist_del_rcu() on bydst,
    bysrc, byseq and byspi so a second deletion is a no-op rather
    than a write through LIST_POISON pprev. The byseq/byspi nodes
    are already initialised in xfrm_state_alloc().
  - Test hlist_unhashed() rather than the value predicate for
    byseq/byspi, so the unhash decision tracks list state rather than
    mutable scalar fields.

Empirical verification: applied this patch on top of v6.12.47, rebuilt,
and re-ran the same syzkaller harness for 1h16m on a previously-crashy
configuration that produced ~100 hits each of slab-use-after-free
Read in xfrm_alloc_spi / Read in __xfrm_state_lookup / Write in
__xfrm_state_delete. After the patch, 7.1M execs across 32 VMs at
~1550 exec/sec produced zero xfrm_state UAF/OOB hits. /proc/slabinfo
confirms the xfrm_state slab is actively allocated and freed during
the run (~143 KiB resident), so the fuzzer is still exercising those
code paths -- they just no longer crash.

Reproduction:

  - Linux 6.12.47 x86_64 + KASAN_GENERIC + KASAN_INLINE + KCOV
  - syzkaller @ 746545b8b1e4c3a128db8652b340d3df90ce61db
  - 32 QEMU/KVM VMs x 2 vCPU on AWS c5.metal bare metal
  - 9 unique signatures collected in ~9h, all within xfrm_state
    lifecycle

Fixes: fe9f1d8779cb ("xfrm: add state hashtable keyed by seq")
Fixes: 7b4dc3600e48 ("[XFRM]: Do not add a state whose SPI is zero to the SPI hash.")
Reported-by: Michal Kosiorek <mkosiorek121@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michal Kosiorek <mkosiorek121@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Kosiorek <mkosiorek121@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index 1748d374abca..686014d39429 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -818,17 +818,17 @@ int __xfrm_state_delete(struct xfrm_state *x)
 
 		spin_lock(&net->xfrm.xfrm_state_lock);
 		list_del(&x->km.all);
-		hlist_del_rcu(&x->bydst);
-		hlist_del_rcu(&x->bysrc);
-		if (x->km.seq)
-			hlist_del_rcu(&x->byseq);
+		hlist_del_init_rcu(&x->bydst);
+		hlist_del_init_rcu(&x->bysrc);
+		if (!hlist_unhashed(&x->byseq))
+			hlist_del_init_rcu(&x->byseq);
 		if (!hlist_unhashed(&x->state_cache))
 			hlist_del_rcu(&x->state_cache);
 		if (!hlist_unhashed(&x->state_cache_input))
 			hlist_del_rcu(&x->state_cache_input);
 
-		if (x->id.spi)
-			hlist_del_rcu(&x->byspi);
+		if (!hlist_unhashed(&x->byspi))
+			hlist_del_init_rcu(&x->byspi);
 		net->xfrm.state_num--;
 		xfrm_nat_keepalive_state_updated(x);
 		spin_unlock(&net->xfrm.xfrm_state_lock);

[PATCH 6.1.y] xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete

[Sasha Levin]

From: Michal Kosiorek <mkosiorek121@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 14acf9652e5690de3c7486c6db5fb8dafd0a32a3 ]

KASAN reproduces a slab-use-after-free in __xfrm_state_delete()'s
hlist_del_rcu calls under syzkaller load on linux-6.12.y stable
(reproduced on 6.12.47, also reachable via the same code path on
torvalds/master and on the ipsec tree). Nine unique signatures cluster
in the xfrm_state lifecycle, the load-bearing one being:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __hlist_del include/linux/list.h:990 [inline]
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hlist_del_rcu include/linux/rculist.h:516 [inline]
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __xfrm_state_delete net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
  Write of size 8 at addr ffff8881198bcb70 by task kworker/u8:9/435

  Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
  Call Trace:
   __hlist_del / hlist_del_rcu
   __xfrm_state_delete
   xfrm_state_delete
   xfrm_state_flush
   xfrm_state_fini
   ops_exit_list
   cleanup_net

The other observed signatures hit the same slab object from
__xfrm_state_lookup, xfrm_alloc_spi, __xfrm_state_insert and an OOB
write variant of __xfrm_state_delete, all on the byseq/byspi
hash chains.

__xfrm_state_delete() guards its byseq and byspi unhashes with
value-based predicates:

	if (x->km.seq)
		hlist_del_rcu(&x->byseq);
	if (x->id.spi)
		hlist_del_rcu(&x->byspi);

while everywhere else in the file (e.g. state_cache, state_cache_input)
the safer hlist_unhashed() check is used. xfrm_alloc_spi() sets
x->id.spi = newspi inside xfrm_state_lock and then immediately inserts
into byspi, but a path that observes x->id.spi != 0 outside of
xfrm_state_lock can still skip-or-hit the byspi unhash inconsistently
with whether x is actually on the list. The same holds for x->km.seq
versus byseq, and the bydst/bysrc unhashes have no predicate at all,
so a second __xfrm_state_delete() on the same object writes through
LIST_POISON pprev.

The defensive change here:

  - Use hlist_del_init_rcu() instead of hlist_del_rcu() on bydst,
    bysrc, byseq and byspi so a second deletion is a no-op rather
    than a write through LIST_POISON pprev. The byseq/byspi nodes
    are already initialised in xfrm_state_alloc().
  - Test hlist_unhashed() rather than the value predicate for
    byseq/byspi, so the unhash decision tracks list state rather than
    mutable scalar fields.

Empirical verification: applied this patch on top of v6.12.47, rebuilt,
and re-ran the same syzkaller harness for 1h16m on a previously-crashy
configuration that produced ~100 hits each of slab-use-after-free
Read in xfrm_alloc_spi / Read in __xfrm_state_lookup / Write in
__xfrm_state_delete. After the patch, 7.1M execs across 32 VMs at
~1550 exec/sec produced zero xfrm_state UAF/OOB hits. /proc/slabinfo
confirms the xfrm_state slab is actively allocated and freed during
the run (~143 KiB resident), so the fuzzer is still exercising those
code paths -- they just no longer crash.

Reproduction:

  - Linux 6.12.47 x86_64 + KASAN_GENERIC + KASAN_INLINE + KCOV
  - syzkaller @ 746545b8b1e4c3a128db8652b340d3df90ce61db
  - 32 QEMU/KVM VMs x 2 vCPU on AWS c5.metal bare metal
  - 9 unique signatures collected in ~9h, all within xfrm_state
    lifecycle

Fixes: fe9f1d8779cb ("xfrm: add state hashtable keyed by seq")
Fixes: 7b4dc3600e48 ("[XFRM]: Do not add a state whose SPI is zero to the SPI hash.")
Reported-by: Michal Kosiorek <mkosiorek121@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michal Kosiorek <mkosiorek121@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Kosiorek <mkosiorek121@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
[ dropped state_cache/state_cache_input unhash hunks and xfrm_nat_keepalive_state_updated() call ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index 7dd536d5f43f3..42fd76b8163f4 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -682,12 +682,12 @@ int __xfrm_state_delete(struct xfrm_state *x)
 		x->km.state = XFRM_STATE_DEAD;
 		spin_lock(&net->xfrm.xfrm_state_lock);
 		list_del(&x->km.all);
-		hlist_del_rcu(&x->bydst);
-		hlist_del_rcu(&x->bysrc);
-		if (x->km.seq)
-			hlist_del_rcu(&x->byseq);
-		if (x->id.spi)
-			hlist_del_rcu(&x->byspi);
+		hlist_del_init_rcu(&x->bydst);
+		hlist_del_init_rcu(&x->bysrc);
+		if (!hlist_unhashed(&x->byseq))
+			hlist_del_init_rcu(&x->byseq);
+		if (!hlist_unhashed(&x->byspi))
+			hlist_del_init_rcu(&x->byspi);
 		net->xfrm.state_num--;
 		spin_unlock(&net->xfrm.xfrm_state_lock);
 
-- 
2.53.0