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CVE-2026-31516

xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown A XFRM_MSG_NEWSPDINFO request can queue the per-net work item policy_hthresh.work onto the system workqueue. The queued callback, xfrm_hash_rebuild(), retrieves the enclosing struct net via container_of(). If the net namespace is torn down before that work runs, the associated struct net may already have been freed, and xfrm_hash_rebuild() may then dereference stale memory. xfrm_policy_fini() already flushes policy_hash_work during teardown, but it does not synchronize policy_hthresh.work. Synchronize policy_hthresh.work in xfrm_policy_fini() as well, so the queued work cannot outlive the net namespace teardown and access a freed struct net.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c before 56ea2257b83ee29a543f158159e3d1abc1e3e4fe; affected 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c before 8854e9367465d784046362698731c1111e3b39b8; affected 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c before 4e2e77843fef473ef47e322d52436d8308582a96; affected 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c before 29fe3a61bcdce398ee3955101c39f89c01a8a77e
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.18; unaffected 0 before 3.18; unaffected 6.12.80 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.21 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.11 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

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