From: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 01:05:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: xfrm6: clear dst.dev on error to avoid double netdev_put in xfrm6_fill_dst()
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=136992de9bb91871084ae52d172610541c76e4d2;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

xfrm6: clear dst.dev on error to avoid double netdev_put in xfrm6_fill_dst()

On the error path where in6_dev_get(dev) returns NULL, xfrm6_fill_dst()
releases the device reference with netdev_put() but leaves
xdst->u.dst.dev set. dst_destroy() later calls netdev_put(dst->dev)
again, so the same net_device reference is released twice, underflowing
its refcount (ref_tracker WARNING + "unregister_netdevice: waiting for
<dev> to become free").

Clear xdst->u.dst.dev after the netdev_put(), the same way the XFRM
device-offload paths xfrm_dev_state_add() and xfrm_dev_policy_add() in
net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c NULL ->dev when releasing the reference on error.

  ref_tracker: reference already released.
  ref_tracker: allocated in:
   xfrm6_fill_dst (net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:86)
   ...
   udpv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/udp.c:1696)
   ...
  ref_tracker: freed in:
   xfrm6_fill_dst (net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:90)
   ...
  WARNING: lib/ref_tracker.c:322 at ref_tracker_free+0x58b/0x780
   dst_destroy (net/core/dst.c:115)
   rcu_core
   handle_softirqs
   ...

Fixes: 84c4a9dfbf43 ("xfrm6: release dev before returning error")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---

diff --git a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
index 125ea9a5b8a0..3b749475f6ed 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ static int xfrm6_fill_dst(struct xfrm_dst *xdst, struct net_device *dev,
 	xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
 	if (!xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev) {
 		netdev_put(dev, &xdst->u.dst.dev_tracker);
+		xdst->u.dst.dev = NULL;
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}