syzkaller reported a memory leak in xfrm_policy_alloc: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888114d79000 (size 1024): comm "syz.1.17", pid 931 ... xfrm_policy_alloc+0xb3/0x4b0 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:432 The root cause is a double call to xfrm_pol_hold_rcu() in xfrm_migrate_policy_find(). The lookup function already returns a policy with held reference, making the second call redundant. Remove the redundant xfrm_pol_hold_rcu() call to fix the refcount imbalance and prevent the memory leak. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller. Fixes: 563d5ca93e88 ("xfrm: switch migrate to xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype") Signed-off-by: Kotlyarov Mihail --- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c index 62486f866975..8566bc464668 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c @@ -4517,9 +4517,6 @@ static struct xfrm_policy *xfrm_migrate_policy_find(const struct xfrm_selector * pol = xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype(net, type, &fl, sel->family, dir, if_id); if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pol)) goto out_unlock; - - if (!xfrm_pol_hold_rcu(pol)) - pol = NULL; out_unlock: rcu_read_unlock(); return pol; -- 2.53.0