This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfrm: Fix xfrm_input() to verify state is valid when (encap_type < 0) 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-xfrm_input-to-verify-state-is-valid-when-encap_type-0.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. >From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018 From: Aviv Heller <avivh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:55:40 +0200 Subject: xfrm: Fix xfrm_input() to verify state is valid when (encap_type < 0) From: Aviv Heller <avivh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4ce3dbe397d7b6b15f272ae757c78c35e9e4b61d ] Code path when (encap_type < 0) does not verify the state is valid before progressing. This will result in a crash if, for instance, x->km.state == XFRM_STATE_ACQ. Fixes: 7785bba299a8 ("esp: Add a software GRO codepath") Signed-off-by: Aviv Heller <avivh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ int xfrm_input(struct sk_buff *skb, int xfrm_address_t *daddr; struct xfrm_mode *inner_mode; u32 mark = skb->mark; - unsigned int family; + unsigned int family = AF_UNSPEC; int decaps = 0; int async = 0; bool xfrm_gro = false; @@ -216,6 +216,16 @@ int xfrm_input(struct sk_buff *skb, int if (encap_type < 0) { x = xfrm_input_state(skb); + + if (unlikely(x->km.state != XFRM_STATE_VALID)) { + if (x->km.state == XFRM_STATE_ACQ) + XFRM_INC_STATS(net, LINUX_MIB_XFRMACQUIREERROR); + else + XFRM_INC_STATS(net, + LINUX_MIB_XFRMINSTATEINVALID); + goto drop; + } + family = x->outer_mode->afinfo->family; /* An encap_type of -1 indicates async resumption. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from avivh@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/xfrm-fix-xfrm_input-to-verify-state-is-valid-when-encap_type-0.patch