Bug 2460720 (CVE-2026-31516) - CVE-2026-31516 kernel: xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown
Summary: CVE-2026-31516 kernel: xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with net...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-31516
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-04-22 15:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-30 15:05 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-22 15:07:20 UTC
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.


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