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From: Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@gmail.com>
To: steffen.klassert@secunet.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com
Cc: horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, baijiaju1990@gmail.com,
	jjzuming@gmail.com, zzzccc427@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH ipsec 0/2] xfrm: fix state lifetimes in xfrm_migrate()
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:14:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pm-xfrm-core-objects-candidate-0027-v3-cb1e033bff1976f510c9-0@gmail.com> (raw)

xfrm_migrate() keeps the old states in x_cur[] and their successors in
x_new[], but it does not hold a reference to every state it later
deletes. An SA with a hard lifetime can expire and be freed by the timer
and the state GC in that window, and the following xfrm_state_delete()
takes the lock of freed memory:

  1/2 The success path drops the lookup references of the old states
      before it deletes them. Delete them first.

  2/2 xfrm_state_migrate() returns the published successor without a
      caller reference, so the rollback deletes states it does not
      hold. Take that reference before publishing and drop it after the
      migration commits or rolls back.

Both windows date back to the initial migration support and are reached
by XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE and PF_KEY's SADB_X_MIGRATE.

Cen Zhang (2):
  xfrm: keep old state references until migration deletion completes
  xfrm: hold migrated states through rollback

 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 7 +++++--
 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c  | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-31  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-31  4:14 Cen Zhang [this message]
2026-10-31  4:14 ` [PATCH ipsec 1/2] xfrm: keep old state references until migration deletion completes Cen Zhang
2026-10-31  4:14 ` [PATCH ipsec 2/2] xfrm: hold migrated states through rollback Cen Zhang
2026-10-31  4:18 ` [PATCH ipsec 0/2] xfrm: fix state lifetimes in xfrm_migrate() netdev-bot+sinfo

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