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Xin Long 2ebe8f840c tipc: force a dst refcount before doing decryption 
As it says in commit 3bc07321cc ("xfrm: Force a dst refcount before
entering the xfrm type handlers"):

"Crypto requests might return asynchronous. In this case we leave the
 rcu protected region, so force a refcount on the skb's destination
 entry before we enter the xfrm type input/output handlers."

On TIPC decryption path it has the same problem, and skb_dst_force()
should be called before doing decryption to avoid a possible crash.

Shuang reported this issue when this warning is triggered:

  [] WARNING: include/net/dst.h:337 tipc_sk_rcv+0x1055/0x1ea0 [tipc]
  [] Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W --------- - - 4.18.0-496.el8.x86_64+debug
  [] Workqueue: crypto cryptd_queue_worker
  [] RIP: 0010:tipc_sk_rcv+0x1055/0x1ea0 [tipc]
  [] Call Trace:
  [] tipc_sk_mcast_rcv+0x548/0xea0 [tipc]
  [] tipc_rcv+0xcf5/0x1060 [tipc]
  [] tipc_aead_decrypt_done+0x215/0x2e0 [tipc]
  [] cryptd_aead_crypt+0xdb/0x190
  [] cryptd_queue_worker+0xed/0x190
  [] process_one_work+0x93d/0x17e0

Fixes: fc1b6d6de2 ("tipc: introduce TIPC encryption & authentication")
Reported-by: Shuang Li <shuali@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fbe3195fad6997a4eec62d9bf076b2ad03ac336b.1718476040.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
History 2024-06-18 15:08:57 +02:00
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README 

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.