linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50445: xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue

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Message-ID: <2025100115-CVE-2022-50445-5873@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2025 13:45:15 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50445: xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue

The following warning is displayed when the tcp6-multi-diffip11 stress
test case of the LTP test suite is tested:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [ns-tcpserver:48198]
CPU: 0 PID: 48198 Comm: ns-tcpserver Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.0.0-rc6+ #39
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : des3_ede_encrypt+0x27c/0x460 [libdes]
lr : 0x3f
sp : ffff80000ceaa1b0
x29: ffff80000ceaa1b0 x28: ffff0000df056100 x27: ffff0000e51e5280
x26: ffff80004df75030 x25: ffff0000e51e4600 x24: 000000000000003b
x23: 0000000000802080 x22: 000000000000003d x21: 0000000000000038
x20: 0000000080000020 x19: 000000000000000a x18: 0000000000000033
x17: ffff0000e51e4780 x16: ffff80004e2d1448 x15: ffff80004e2d1248
x14: ffff0000e51e4680 x13: ffff80004e2d1348 x12: ffff80004e2d1548
x11: ffff80004e2d1848 x10: ffff80004e2d1648 x9 : ffff80004e2d1748
x8 : ffff80004e2d1948 x7 : 000000000bcaf83d x6 : 000000000000001b
x5 : ffff80004e2d1048 x4 : 00000000761bf3bf x3 : 000000007f1dd0a3
x2 : ffff0000e51e4780 x1 : ffff0000e3b9a2f8 x0 : 00000000db44e872
Call trace:
 des3_ede_encrypt+0x27c/0x460 [libdes]
 crypto_des3_ede_encrypt+0x1c/0x30 [des_generic]
 crypto_cbc_encrypt+0x148/0x190
 crypto_skcipher_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
 crypto_authenc_encrypt+0xc8/0xfc [authenc]
 crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
 echainiv_encrypt+0x144/0x1a0 [echainiv]
 crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
 esp6_output_tail+0x1c8/0x5d0 [esp6]
 esp6_output+0x120/0x278 [esp6]
 xfrm_output_one+0x458/0x4ec
 xfrm_output_resume+0x6c/0x1f0
 xfrm_output+0xac/0x4ac
 __xfrm6_output+0x130/0x270
 xfrm6_output+0x60/0xec
 ip6_xmit+0x2ec/0x5bc
 inet6_csk_xmit+0xbc/0x10c
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0x460/0x8c0
 tcp_write_xmit+0x348/0x890
 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x44/0x110
 tcp_rcv_established+0x3c8/0x720
 tcp_v6_do_rcv+0xdc/0x4a0
 tcp_v6_rcv+0xc24/0xcb0
 ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xf0/0x574
 ip6_input_finish+0x48/0x7c
 ip6_input+0x48/0xc0
 ip6_rcv_finish+0x80/0x9c
 xfrm_trans_reinject+0xb0/0xf4
 tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xf8/0x134
 tasklet_action+0x30/0x3c
 __do_softirq+0x128/0x368
 do_softirq+0xb4/0xc0
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xb0/0xb4
 put_cpu_fpsimd_context+0x40/0x70
 kernel_neon_end+0x20/0x40
 sha1_base_do_update.constprop.0.isra.0+0x11c/0x140 [sha1_ce]
 sha1_ce_finup+0x94/0x110 [sha1_ce]
 crypto_shash_finup+0x34/0xc0
 hmac_finup+0x48/0xe0
 crypto_shash_finup+0x34/0xc0
 shash_digest_unaligned+0x74/0x90
 crypto_shash_digest+0x4c/0x9c
 shash_ahash_digest+0xc8/0xf0
 shash_async_digest+0x28/0x34
 crypto_ahash_digest+0x48/0xcc
 crypto_authenc_genicv+0x88/0xcc [authenc]
 crypto_authenc_encrypt+0xd8/0xfc [authenc]
 crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
 echainiv_encrypt+0x144/0x1a0 [echainiv]
 crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
 esp6_output_tail+0x1c8/0x5d0 [esp6]
 esp6_output+0x120/0x278 [esp6]
 xfrm_output_one+0x458/0x4ec
 xfrm_output_resume+0x6c/0x1f0
 xfrm_output+0xac/0x4ac
 __xfrm6_output+0x130/0x270
 xfrm6_output+0x60/0xec
 ip6_xmit+0x2ec/0x5bc
 inet6_csk_xmit+0xbc/0x10c
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0x460/0x8c0
 tcp_write_xmit+0x348/0x890
 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x44/0x110
 tcp_push+0xb4/0x14c
 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x71c/0xb64
 tcp_sendmsg+0x40/0x6c
 inet6_sendmsg+0x4c/0x80
 sock_sendmsg+0x5c/0x6c
 __sys_sendto+0x128/0x15c
 __arm64_sys_sendto+0x30/0x40
 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x170/0x194
 do_el0_svc+0x38/0x4c
 el0_svc+0x28/0xe0
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xbc/0x13c
 el0t_64_sync+0x180/0x184

Get softirq info by bcc tool:
./softirqs -NT 10
Tracing soft irq event time... Hit Ctrl-C to end.

15:34:34
SOFTIRQ          TOTAL_nsecs
block                 158990
timer               20030920
sched               46577080
net_rx             676746820
tasklet           9906067650

15:34:45
SOFTIRQ          TOTAL_nsecs
block                  86100
sched               38849790
net_rx             676532470
timer             1163848790
tasklet           9409019620

15:34:55
SOFTIRQ          TOTAL_nsecs
sched               58078450
net_rx             475156720
timer              533832410
tasklet           9431333300

The tasklet software interrupt takes too much time. Therefore, the
xfrm_trans_reinject executor is changed from tasklet to workqueue. Add add
spin lock to protect the queue. This reduces the processing flow of the
tcp_sendmsg function in this scenario.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50445 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.15 with commit acf568ee859f098279eadf551612f103afdacb4e and fixed in 5.15.75 with commit 7d98b26684cb2390729525b341ea099f0badbe18
	Issue introduced in 4.15 with commit acf568ee859f098279eadf551612f103afdacb4e and fixed in 5.19.17 with commit f520075da484306bbb8425afd2c42404ba74816f
	Issue introduced in 4.15 with commit acf568ee859f098279eadf551612f103afdacb4e and fixed in 6.0.3 with commit 130d9e5017ade1b81d16783563edb38c12a2eab7
	Issue introduced in 4.15 with commit acf568ee859f098279eadf551612f103afdacb4e and fixed in 6.1 with commit 4f4920669d21e1060b7243e5118dc3b71ced1276
	Issue introduced in 3.2.100 with commit 69895c5ea0ca2e8d7de1e6d36965d0ab9730787f
	Issue introduced in 3.16.55 with commit 833760100588acfb267dac4d6a02ab9931237739
	Issue introduced in 4.14.24 with commit e095ecaec6d94aa2156cceb98a85d409b51190f3

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-50445
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d98b26684cb2390729525b341ea099f0badbe18
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f520075da484306bbb8425afd2c42404ba74816f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/130d9e5017ade1b81d16783563edb38c12a2eab7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f4920669d21e1060b7243e5118dc3b71ced1276