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([2405:201:682f:383f:ea9d:65ca:a4cd:ee0]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-2b2d4f43994sm120551535ad.80.2026.04.13.07.35.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:35:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Deepanshu Kartikey To: steffen.klassert@secunet.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, sd@queasysnail.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Deepanshu Kartikey , syzbot+901d48e0b95aed4a2548@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Subject: [PATCH ipsec v2] xfrm: cleanup error path in xfrm_add_policy() Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:05:42 +0530 Message-ID: <20260413143542.52134-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Replace the open-coded manual cleanup in the error path of xfrm_add_policy() with xfrm_policy_destroy(), which already handles all the necessary cleanup internally. This is consistent with how xfrm_policy_construct() handles its own error paths. The walk.dead flag must be set before calling xfrm_policy_destroy() as required by BUG_ON(!policy->walk.dead). Tested-by: syzbot+901d48e0b95aed4a2548@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey --- v2: - Reworded commit message to reflect cleanup rather than bugfix as suggested by Sabrina Dubroca - Removed incorrect Fixes: and Closes: tags - Corrected subject prefix to "PATCH ipsec" --- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c index d56450f61669..ae144d1e4a65 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c @@ -2267,9 +2267,8 @@ static int xfrm_add_policy(struct sk_buff *skb, struc= t nlmsghdr *nlh, =20 if (err) { xfrm_dev_policy_delete(xp); - xfrm_dev_policy_free(xp); - security_xfrm_policy_free(xp->security); - kfree(xp); + xp->walk.dead =3D 1; + xfrm_policy_destroy(xp); return err; } =20 --=20 2.43.0