From: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> if we succeed grabbing the refcount, then if (err && !xfrm_pol_hold_rcu)
will evaluate to false so this hits last else branch which then sets policy to ERR_PTR(0). Fixes: ae33786f73a7ce ("xfrm: policy: only use rcu in xfrm_sk_policy_lookup") Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com> --- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c index fd69866..5bf7e1bf 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c @@ -1268,12 +1268,14 @@ static struct xfrm_policy *xfrm_sk_policy_lookup(const struct sock *sk, int dir, err = security_xfrm_policy_lookup(pol->security, fl->flowi_secid, policy_to_flow_dir(dir)); - if (!err && !xfrm_pol_hold_rcu(pol)) - goto again; - else if (err == -ESRCH) + if (!err) { + if (!xfrm_pol_hold_rcu(pol)) + goto again; + } else if (err == -ESRCH) { pol = NULL; - else + } else { pol = ERR_PTR(err); + } } else pol = NULL; } -- 1.9.1