From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 542fbda0f08f1cbbc250f9e59f7537649651d0c8 ] The dst entry might already have a zero refcount, waiting on rcu list to be free'd. Using dst_hold() transitions its reference count to 1, and next dst release will try to free it again -- resulting in a double free: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at include/net/dst.h:239 nf_xfrm_me_harder+0xe7/0x130 [nf_nat] RIP: 0010:nf_xfrm_me_harder+0xe7/0x130 [nf_nat] Code: 48 8b 5c 24 60 65 48 33 1c 25 28 00 00 00 75 53 48 83 c4 68 5b 5d 41 5c c3 85 c0 74 0d 8d 48 01 f0 0f b1 0a 74 86 85 c0 75 f3 <0f> 0b e9 7b ff ff ff 29 c6 31 d2 b9 20 00 48 00 4c 89 e7 e8 31 27 Call Trace: nf_nat_ipv4_out+0x78/0x90 [nf_nat_ipv4] nf_hook_slow+0x36/0xd0 ip_output+0x9f/0xd0 ip_forward+0x328/0x440 ip_rcv+0x8a/0xb0 Use dst_hold_safe instead and bail out if we cannot take a reference. Fixes: a4c2fd7f7891 ("net: remove DST_NOCACHE flag") Reported-by: Martin Zaharinov <micron10@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c index af8345fc4fbd..ed0ea64b8d04 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ int nf_xfrm_me_harder(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int family) dst = skb_dst(skb); if (dst->xfrm) dst = ((struct xfrm_dst *)dst)->route; - dst_hold(dst); + if (!dst_hold_safe(dst)) + return -EHOSTUNREACH; dst = xfrm_lookup(net, dst, &fl, skb->sk, 0); if (IS_ERR(dst)) -- 2.19.1