This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfrm6: fix inet6_dev refcount underflow problem to the 6.1-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: xfrm6-fix-inet6_dev-refcount-underflow-problem.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e18f0e6509ebb2ed91524ab5b591218445998b92 Author: Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Sep 15 19:20:41 2023 +0800 xfrm6: fix inet6_dev refcount underflow problem [ Upstream commit cc9b364bb1d58d3dae270c7a931a8cc717dc2b3b ] There are race conditions that may lead to inet6_dev refcount underflow in xfrm6_dst_destroy() and rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev(). One of the refcount underflow bugs is shown below: (cpu 1) | (cpu 2) xfrm6_dst_destroy() | ... | in6_dev_put() | | rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev() ... | ... | in6_dev_put() rt6_uncached_list_del() | ... ... | xfrm6_dst_destroy() calls rt6_uncached_list_del() after in6_dev_put(), so rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev() has a chance to call in6_dev_put() again for the same inet6_dev. Fix it by moving in6_dev_put() after rt6_uncached_list_del() in xfrm6_dst_destroy(). Fixes: 510c321b5571 ("xfrm: reuse uncached_list to track xdsts") Signed-off-by: Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> 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 eecc5e59da17c..50c278f1c1063 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c +++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c @@ -117,10 +117,10 @@ static void xfrm6_dst_destroy(struct dst_entry *dst) { struct xfrm_dst *xdst = (struct xfrm_dst *)dst; - if (likely(xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev)) - in6_dev_put(xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev); dst_destroy_metrics_generic(dst); rt6_uncached_list_del(&xdst->u.rt6); + if (likely(xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev)) + in6_dev_put(xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev); xfrm_dst_destroy(xdst); }