linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: fix potential use-after-free in ch_ipsec_xfrm_add

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Message-ID: <20251001111646.806130-1-Pavel.Zhigulin@kaspersky.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 14:16:43 +0300
From: Pavel Zhigulin <Pavel.Zhigulin@...persky.com>
To: Ayush Sawal <ayush.sawal@...lsio.com>
CC: Pavel Zhigulin <Pavel.Zhigulin@...persky.com>, Andrew Lunn
	<andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni
	<pabeni@...hat.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Steffen Klassert
	<steffen.klassert@...unet.com>, Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>, Zhu Yanjun
	<yanjun.zhu@...ux.dev>, Harsh Jain <harsh@...lsio.com>, Atul Gupta
	<atul.gupta@...lsio.com>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Ganesh
 Goudar <ganeshgr@...lsio.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <lvc-project@...uxtesting.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net: fix potential use-after-free in ch_ipsec_xfrm_add_state() callback

In ch_ipsec_xfrm_add_state() there is not check of try_module_get
return value. It is very unlikely, but try_module_get() could return
false value, which could cause use-after-free error.

This fix adds checking the result of try_module_get call

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 6dad4e8ab3ec ("chcr: Add support for Inline IPSec")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Zhigulin <Pavel.Zhigulin@...persky.com>
---
 .../net/ethernet/chelsio/inline_crypto/ch_ipsec/chcr_ipsec.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/inline_crypto/ch_ipsec/chcr_ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/inline_crypto/ch_ipsec/chcr_ipsec.c
index ecd9a0bd5e18..3a5277630afa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/inline_crypto/ch_ipsec/chcr_ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/inline_crypto/ch_ipsec/chcr_ipsec.c
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
  *	Atul Gupta (atul.gupta@...lsio.com)
  */

+#include "asm-generic/errno-base.h"
+#include "linux/compiler.h"
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "ch_ipsec: " fmt

 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -301,7 +303,8 @@ static int ch_ipsec_xfrm_add_state(struct net_device *dev,
 		sa_entry->esn = 1;
 	ch_ipsec_setkey(x, sa_entry);
 	x->xso.offload_handle = (unsigned long)sa_entry;
-	try_module_get(THIS_MODULE);
+	if (unlikely(!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)))
+		res = -ENODEV;
 out:
 	return res;
 }
--
2.43.0