netdev - [PATCH xfrm 1/2] xfrm: release all offloaded policy memory

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Message-Id: <c84041b660cf6b0f0886488e740cd43b0f21c341.1681906552.git.leon@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:19:07 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:     Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Raed Salem <raeds@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH xfrm 1/2] xfrm: release all offloaded policy memory

From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>

Failure to add offloaded policy will cause to the following
error once user will try to reload driver.

Unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth3 to become free. Usage count = 2

This was caused by xfrm_dev_policy_add() which increments reference
to net_device. That reference was supposed to be decremented
in xfrm_dev_policy_free(). However the latter wasn't called.

 unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth3 to become free. Usage count = 2
 leaked reference.
  xfrm_dev_policy_add+0xff/0x3d0
  xfrm_policy_construct+0x352/0x420
  xfrm_add_policy+0x179/0x320
  xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x1d2/0x3d0
  netlink_rcv_skb+0xe0/0x210
  xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x45/0x50
  netlink_unicast+0x346/0x490
  netlink_sendmsg+0x3b0/0x6c0
  sock_sendmsg+0x73/0xc0
  sock_write_iter+0x13b/0x1f0
  vfs_write+0x528/0x5d0
  ksys_write+0x120/0x150
  do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Fixes: 919e43fad516 ("xfrm: add an interface to offload policy")
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index d720e163ae6e..0e398a589536 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -1980,6 +1980,7 @@ static int xfrm_add_policy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,

 	if (err) {
 		xfrm_dev_policy_delete(xp);
+		xfrm_dev_policy_free(xp);
 		security_xfrm_policy_free(xp->security);
 		kfree(xp);
 		return err;
-- 
2.40.0