syzbot reported a suspicious RCU usage warning in ip6_pkt_drop(): WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ip6_pkt_drop include/net/addrconf.h:389 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! Call Trace: __in6_dev_get_safely include/net/addrconf.h:389 [inline] ip6_pkt_drop+0x596/0x610 net/ipv6/route.c:4620 ip6_pkt_discard+0x1c/0x30 net/ipv6/route.c:4651 xfrm_trans_reinject+0x324/0x630 net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c:806 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486 When commit 4f4920669d21 ("xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue") converted xfrm_trans_reinject from a tasklet to a workqueue, the reinjection loop ceased running in softirq context. Workqueue workers run in process context where local_bh_disable() does not enter an RCU read-side critical section under CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Because finish callbacks (such as ip6_rcv_finish) expect to run under an RCU read lock (performing route lookups, l3mdev lookups, and accessing RCU-protected data structures), invoking them in workqueue context without rcu_read_lock() triggers RCU lockdep warnings. Furthermore, packets queued to the workqueue via xfrm_trans_queue_net() may carry non-refcounted (noref) dst entries (e.g. from ip_route_input_noref). Additionally, on netdevice unregistration, dst_dev_put() replaces dst->dev with blackhole_netdev, so dst entries do not keep skb->dev alive while queued in the workqueue. Fix these issues by: 1. Calling skb_dst_force(skb) in xfrm_trans_queue_net() while still in the caller's RCU section to ensure dst is reference-counted before queuing. 2. Holding a reference on skb->dev via dev_hold()/dev_put() across workqueue deferral so skb->dev remains valid during finish() callback processing. 3. Acquiring rcu_read_lock() around the finish callback invocation loop in xfrm_trans_reinject(). Fixes: 4f4920669d21 ("xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue") Reported-by: syzbot Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Steffen Klassert Cc: Liu Jian --- net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c index eecab337bd0a794588b192598851bd77427c8392..8f6109eada7eaaf1c70aa2da610523b42d75b50c 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c @@ -800,12 +800,17 @@ static void xfrm_trans_reinject(struct work_struct *work) spin_unlock_bh(&trans->queue_lock); local_bh_disable(); + rcu_read_lock(); while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&queue))) { struct net *net = XFRM_TRANS_SKB_CB(skb)->net; + struct net_device *dev = skb->dev; XFRM_TRANS_SKB_CB(skb)->finish(net, NULL, skb); + if (dev) + dev_put(dev); put_net(net); } + rcu_read_unlock(); local_bh_enable(); } @@ -821,12 +826,18 @@ int xfrm_trans_queue_net(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, if (skb_queue_len(&trans->queue) >= READ_ONCE(net_hotdata.max_backlog)) return -ENOBUFS; + if (skb_dst(skb) && !skb_dst_force(skb)) + return -EHOSTUNREACH; + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct xfrm_trans_cb) > sizeof(skb->cb)); hold_net = maybe_get_net(net); if (!hold_net) return -ENODEV; + if (skb->dev) + dev_hold(skb->dev); + XFRM_TRANS_SKB_CB(skb)->finish = finish; XFRM_TRANS_SKB_CB(skb)->net = hold_net; spin_lock_bh(&trans->queue_lock); -- 2.55.0.654.g21b8a5bc05-goog