[PATCH net] macsec: check offload ops before inserting TX tag

Junrui Luo <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:52:10 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.feeds.b4-sent,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
macsec_insert_tx_tag() takes the ops pointer returned by
macsec_get_ops() and dereferences it straight away:

	ops = macsec_get_ops(macsec, &ctx);
	skb_final_len = skb->len - ETH_HLEN + ops->needed_headroom +
		ops->needed_tailroom;

macsec_get_ops() returns NULL whenever the offload is no longer live:
for MACSEC_OFFLOAD_PHY, macsec_check_offload() requires
real_dev->phydev to still be attached.

phy_detach() clears real_dev->phydev, e.g. when the lower device is
brought down and its driver calls phy_disconnect() from ndo_stop(),
when the PHY driver is unbound, or when an SFP module is removed under
phylink. A frame sent after that point reaches macsec_insert_tx_tag()
with ops == NULL and oopses.

Check the pointer, as every other macsec_get_ops() caller already
does, and drop the frame through the existing cleanup path.

Fixes: a73d8779d61a ("net: macsec: introduce mdo_insert_tx_tag")
Reported-by: Yuhao Jiang <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Junrui Luo <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/macsec.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
index ee0e2eb7dbc6..86c8009dcfa9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -3436,6 +3436,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *macsec_insert_tx_tag(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	int err;
 
 	ops = macsec_get_ops(macsec, &ctx);
+	if (unlikely(!ops)) {
+		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		goto cleanup;
+	}
+
 	skb_final_len = skb->len - ETH_HLEN + ops->needed_headroom +
 		ops->needed_tailroom;
 	if (unlikely(skb_final_len > macsec->real_dev->mtu)) {

---
base-commit: 075b74841bd0065a3bda3440873c747938e69b68
change-id: 20260805-macsec-fixes-d280baf70552

Best regards,
-- 
Junrui Luo <[email protected]>