This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfrm: Fix ignored return value in xfrm6_init()
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xfrm-fix-ignored-return-value-in-xfrm6_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 80516bc9faeabe08d9126032d89d8e0fedead220
Author: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 3 17:07:13 2022 +0800
xfrm: Fix ignored return value in xfrm6_init()
[ Upstream commit 40781bfb836eda57d19c0baa37c7e72590e05fdc ]
When IPv6 module initializing in xfrm6_init(), register_pernet_subsys()
is possible to fail but its return value is ignored.
If IPv6 initialization fails later and xfrm6_fini() is called,
removing uninitialized list in xfrm6_net_ops will cause null-ptr-deref:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 1 PID: 330 Comm: insmod
RIP: 0010:unregister_pernet_operations+0xc9/0x450
Call Trace:
<TASK>
unregister_pernet_subsys+0x31/0x3e
xfrm6_fini+0x16/0x30 [ipv6]
ip6_route_init+0xcd/0x128 [ipv6]
inet6_init+0x29c/0x602 [ipv6]
...
Fix it by catching the error return value of register_pernet_subsys().
Fixes: 8d068875caca ("xfrm: make gc_thresh configurable in all namespaces")
Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
index b0d80cef7c2b..44d616d0bd00 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
@@ -412,9 +412,13 @@ int __init xfrm6_init(void)
if (ret)
goto out_state;
- register_pernet_subsys(&xfrm6_net_ops);
+ ret = register_pernet_subsys(&xfrm6_net_ops);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_protocol;
out:
return ret;
+out_protocol:
+ xfrm6_protocol_fini();
out_state:
xfrm6_state_fini();
out_policy:
