[PATCH net] xfrm: route MIGRATE notifications to caller's netns
From: Maoyi Xie <hidden>
Date: 2026-05-04 14:27:42
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lkml, stable
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipsec], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Steffen Klassert, Herbert Xu, Linus Torvalds
xfrm_send_migrate() in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c and pfkey_send_migrate()
in net/key/af_key.c both hardcode &init_net for the multicast that
announces a successful XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE / SADB_X_MIGRATE.
XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE arrives on a per-netns NETLINK_XFRM socket, and the
rest of the xfrm/af_key netlink path was made netns-aware in 2008.
The other 14 multicast paths in xfrm_user.c route their event using
xs_net(x), xp_net(xp) or sock_net(skb->sk); only the migrate path
was missed.
Two consequences of the init_net hardcoding:
1. The notification (selector, old/new endpoint addresses, and the
km_address) is delivered to listeners on init_net's
XFRMNLGRP_MIGRATE / pfkey BROADCAST_ALL groups rather than on
the issuing netns. An IKE daemon running in init_net therefore
receives migration notifications originating from any other
netns on the host.
2. An IKE daemon running inside a non-init netns and subscribed
to its own XFRMNLGRP_MIGRATE / pfkey groups never receives the
notification of its own migration. IKEv2 MOBIKE / address-update
handling inside a netns is silently broken.
Thread struct net through km_migrate() and the xfrm_mgr.migrate
function pointer, drop the &init_net override in xfrm_send_migrate()
and pfkey_send_migrate(), and pass the caller's net (already in
scope in xfrm_migrate() via sock_net(skb->sk)) all the way down.
struct xfrm_mgr is in-tree only and not exported as a stable API,
so the function-pointer signature change is internal.
pfkey_broadcast() is already netns-aware via net_generic(net,
pfkey_net_id) since the pernet conversion. The five other
pfkey_broadcast() callers in af_key.c already pass xs_net(x),
sock_net(sk) or a per-netns net, so this only removes the
&init_net outlier.
Fixes: 5c79de6e79cd ("[XFRM]: User interface for handling XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15+
Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <redacted>
---
include/net/xfrm.h | 3 ++-
net/key/af_key.c | 6 +++---
net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 2 +-
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 4 ++--
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 5 ++---
5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/xfrm.h b/include/net/xfrm.h
index 10d3edde6..874409127 100644
--- a/include/net/xfrm.h
+++ b/include/net/xfrm.h@@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ struct xfrm_mgr { const struct xfrm_migrate *m, int num_bundles, const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, + struct net *net, const struct xfrm_encap_tmpl *encap); bool (*is_alive)(const struct km_event *c); };
@@ -1891,7 +1892,7 @@ int xfrm_sk_policy_insert(struct sock *sk, int dir, struct xfrm_policy *pol); #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM_MIGRATE int km_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, const struct xfrm_migrate *m, int num_bundles, - const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, + const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, struct net *net, const struct xfrm_encap_tmpl *encap); struct xfrm_state *xfrm_migrate_state_find(struct xfrm_migrate *m, struct net *net, u32 if_id);
diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c
index a166a88d8..9cffeef18 100644
--- a/net/key/af_key.c
+++ b/net/key/af_key.c@@ -3564,7 +3564,7 @@ static int set_ipsecrequest(struct sk_buff *skb, #ifdef CONFIG_NET_KEY_MIGRATE static int pfkey_send_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, const struct xfrm_migrate *m, int num_bundles, - const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, + const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, struct net *net, const struct xfrm_encap_tmpl *encap) { int i;
@@ -3669,7 +3669,7 @@ static int pfkey_send_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, } /* broadcast migrate message to sockets */ - pfkey_broadcast(skb, GFP_ATOMIC, BROADCAST_ALL, NULL, &init_net); + pfkey_broadcast(skb, GFP_ATOMIC, BROADCAST_ALL, NULL, net); return 0;
@@ -3680,7 +3680,7 @@ static int pfkey_send_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, #else static int pfkey_send_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, const struct xfrm_migrate *m, int num_bundles, - const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, + const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, struct net *net, const struct xfrm_encap_tmpl *encap) { return -ENOPROTOOPT;
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index c944327ce..59968dcba 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c@@ -4703,7 +4703,7 @@ int xfrm_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, } /* Stage 5 - announce */ - km_migrate(sel, dir, type, m, num_migrate, k, encap); + km_migrate(sel, dir, type, m, num_migrate, k, net, encap); xfrm_pol_put(pol);
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index 1748d374a..8f1379681 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c@@ -2837,7 +2837,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(km_policy_expired); #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM_MIGRATE int km_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, const struct xfrm_migrate *m, int num_migrate, - const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, + const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, struct net *net, const struct xfrm_encap_tmpl *encap) { int err = -EINVAL;
@@ -2848,7 +2848,7 @@ int km_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, list_for_each_entry_rcu(km, &xfrm_km_list, list) { if (km->migrate) { ret = km->migrate(sel, dir, type, m, num_migrate, k, - encap); + net, encap); if (!ret) err = ret; }
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index d56450f61..b39c33276 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c@@ -3271,10 +3271,9 @@ static int build_migrate(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct xfrm_migrate *m, static int xfrm_send_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, const struct xfrm_migrate *m, int num_migrate, - const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, + const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, struct net *net, const struct xfrm_encap_tmpl *encap) { - struct net *net = &init_net; struct sk_buff *skb; int err;
@@ -3292,7 +3291,7 @@ static int xfrm_send_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, #else static int xfrm_send_migrate(const struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, const struct xfrm_migrate *m, int num_migrate, - const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, + const struct xfrm_kmaddress *k, struct net *net, const struct xfrm_encap_tmpl *encap) { return -ENOPROTOOPT;
base-commit: bd3a4795d5744f59a1f485379f1303e5e606f377 -- 2.34.1