From 136992de9bb91871084ae52d172610541c76e4d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 01:05:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 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) Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert --- net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) 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; } -- 2.47.3