This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfrm: fix netdev reference count imbalance
to the 6.6-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-netdev-reference-count-imbalance.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7b32676f94c812187ac843d59c9181c49f533a80
Author: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jul 8 09:58:11 2024 +0300
xfrm: fix netdev reference count imbalance
[ Upstream commit 9199b915e9fad7f5eff6160d24ff6b38e970107d ]
In cited commit, netdev_tracker_alloc() is called for the newly
allocated xfrm state, but dev_hold() is missed, which causes netdev
reference count imbalance, because netdev_put() is called when the
state is freed in xfrm_dev_state_free(). Fix the issue by replacing
netdev_tracker_alloc() with netdev_hold().
Fixes: f8a70afafc17 ("xfrm: add TX datapath support for IPsec packet offload mode")
Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index 7692d587e59b8..8a6e8656d014f 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -1331,8 +1331,7 @@ xfrm_state_find(const xfrm_address_t *daddr, const xfrm_address_t *saddr,
xso->dev = xdo->dev;
xso->real_dev = xdo->real_dev;
xso->flags = XFRM_DEV_OFFLOAD_FLAG_ACQ;
- netdev_tracker_alloc(xso->dev, &xso->dev_tracker,
- GFP_ATOMIC);
+ netdev_hold(xso->dev, &xso->dev_tracker, GFP_ATOMIC);
error = xso->dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_state_add(x, NULL);
if (error) {
xso->dir = 0;
