linux/net/xfrm
Xiang Mei (Microsoft) f38f8cce2f xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert
xfrm_hash_rebuild()'s first loop preallocates the bins/chains the reinsert
loop needs, so the reinsert (after hlist_del_rcu()) cannot allocate or
fail. But its guard is inverted: it skips policies with prefixlen <
threshold and preallocates for the rest.

prefixlen < threshold is exactly when policy_hash_bysel() returns NULL and
the reinsert takes the allocating xfrm_policy_inexact_insert() path. So the
loop preallocates for the exact policies (which never allocate) and skips
the inexact ones, whose bin/node is then allocated GFP_ATOMIC during
reinsert. On failure the error path only WARN_ONCE()s and continues,
leaving a poisoned bydst node; the next rebuild's hlist_del_rcu()
dereferences LIST_POISON2 and takes a GPF. Reachable under memory pressure,
deterministic via failslab.

Invert the guard so preallocation covers exactly the reinserted policies;
the reinsert then allocates nothing and cannot fail.

Crash:
  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
  0xfbd59c0000000024: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead...]
  ...
  Workqueue: events xfrm_hash_rebuild
  RIP: 0010:xfrm_hash_rebuild+0x5b3/0x1190
  RAX: dead000000000122   (LIST_POISON2 + offset)
  ...
  Call Trace:
   hlist_del_rcu (include/linux/rculist.h:599)
   xfrm_hash_rebuild (net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:1365)
   process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)
   worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3486)
   kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
   ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)
   ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)
   ...
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Fixes: 24969facd7 ("xfrm: policy: store inexact policies in an rhashtable")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2026-07-06 08:30:02 +02:00
..
espintcp.c espintcp: use sk_msg_free_partial to fix partial send 2026-06-17 11:17:27 +02:00
Kconfig pfkey: Deprecate pfkey 2025-10-30 09:03:12 +01:00
Makefile xfrm: iptfs: add new iptfs xfrm mode impl 2024-12-05 10:01:35 +01:00
trace_iptfs.h xfrm: iptfs: add tracepoint functionality 2024-12-05 10:02:36 +01:00
xfrm_algo.c xfrm: Drop support for HMAC-RIPEMD-160 2026-04-07 10:47:58 +02:00
xfrm_compat.c xfrm: add XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE for single SA migration 2026-06-04 12:22:47 +02:00
xfrm_device.c xfrm: cache the offload ifindex for netlink dumps 2026-07-02 09:12:58 +02:00
xfrm_hash.c mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
xfrm_hash.h xfrm: add state hashtable keyed by seq 2021-05-14 13:52:01 +02:00
xfrm_inout.h xfrm: move xfrm4_extract_header to common helper 2020-05-06 09:40:08 +02:00
xfrm_input.c xfrm: Fix dev use-after-free in xfrm async resumption 2026-06-12 08:39:59 +02:00
xfrm_interface_bpf.c bpf: treewide: Annotate BPF kfuncs in BTF 2024-01-31 20:40:56 -08:00
xfrm_interface_core.c xfrm: xfrm_interface: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink 2026-06-17 16:01:53 -07:00
xfrm_ipcomp.c xfrm: ipcomp: Free destination pages on acomp errors 2026-05-11 10:34:35 +02:00
xfrm_iptfs.c xfrm: iptfs: propagate SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG in iptfs_skb_add_frags() 2026-07-06 08:29:07 +02:00
xfrm_nat_keepalive.c xfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error 2026-06-30 15:59:54 +02:00
xfrm_output.c xfrm: Don't clobber inner headers when already set 2026-04-28 06:47:20 +02:00
xfrm_policy.c xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert 2026-07-06 08:30:02 +02:00
xfrm_proc.c xfrm: snmp: do not use SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL anymore 2025-09-08 18:06:21 -07:00
xfrm_replay.c ipsec-2025-01-27 2025-01-27 15:15:12 -08:00
xfrm_state_bpf.c bpf: xfrm: drop dead NULL check in bpf_xdp_get_xfrm_state() 2026-01-02 12:04:29 -08:00
xfrm_state.c xfrm: clear mode callbacks after failed mode setup 2026-07-06 08:29:06 +02:00
xfrm_sysctl.c net: Remove ctl_table sentinel elements from several networking subsystems 2024-05-03 13:29:42 +01:00
xfrm_user.c xfrm: reject optional IPTFS templates in outbound policies 2026-07-02 09:22:54 +02:00