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[PATCH ipsec 1/1] xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak

From: Ren Wei <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-27 17:30:45
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipsec], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Steffen Klassert, Herbert Xu, Linus Torvalds

From: Zihan Xi <redacted>

attach_auth_trunc() can allocate x->aalg while leaving
x->props.aalgo at zero when the selected auth algorithm has no
sadb_alg_id. One real case is cmac(aes).

xfrm_state_construct() then treats !x->props.aalgo as "no auth
algorithm attached yet" and calls attach_auth(). That overwrites
x->aalg and loses the first allocation. Any later failure or teardown
only frees the replacement pointer.

Check whether x->aalg is already attached instead of inferring that
state from x->props.aalgo.

Fixes: 4447bb33f094 ("xfrm: Store aalg in xfrm_state with a user specified truncation length")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <redacted>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Signed-off-by: Zihan Xi <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <redacted>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index d6db63304ba6..6266a92cf302 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ static struct xfrm_state *xfrm_state_construct(struct net *net,
 	if ((err = attach_auth_trunc(&x->aalg, &x->props.aalgo,
 				     attrs[XFRMA_ALG_AUTH_TRUNC], extack)))
 		goto error;
-	if (!x->props.aalgo) {
+	if (!x->aalg) {
 		if ((err = attach_auth(&x->aalg, &x->props.aalgo,
 				       attrs[XFRMA_ALG_AUTH], extack)))
 			goto error;
-- 
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