If a socket has a valid dst cache, then xfrm_lookup_route will get
skipped. However, the cache is not invalidated when applying policy to a
socket (i.e. IPV6_XFRM_POLICY). The result is that new policies are
sometimes ignored on those sockets. (Note: This was broken for IPv4 and
IPv6 at different times.)
This can be demonstrated like so,
1. Create UDP socket.
2. connect() the socket.
3. Apply an outbound XFRM policy to the socket. (setsockopt)
4. send() data on the socket.
Packets will continue to be sent in the clear instead of matching an
xfrm or returning a no-match error (EAGAIN). This affects calls to
send() and not sendto().
Invalidating the sk_dst_cache is necessary to correctly apply xfrm
policies. Since we do this in xfrm_user_policy(), the sk_lock was
already acquired in either do_ip_setsockopt() or do_ipv6_setsockopt(),
and we may call __sk_dst_reset().
Performance impact should be negligible, since this code is only called
when changing xfrm policy, and only affects the socket in question.
Fixes: 00bc0ef588 ("ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid")
Tested: https://android-review.googlesource.com/517555
Tested: https://android-review.googlesource.com/418659
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Basseri <misterikkit@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
I might be wrong but it doesn't look like xfrm_state_lock is required
for xfrm_policy_cache_flush and calling it under this lock triggers both
"sleeping function called from invalid context" and "possible circular
locking dependency detected" warnings on flush.
Fixes: ec30d78c14 xfrm: add xdst pcpu cache
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Creating sub policy that matches the same outer flow as main policy does
leads to a null pointer dereference if the outer mode's family is ipv4.
For userspace compatibility, this patch just eliminates the crash i.e.,
does not introduce any new sorting rule, which would fruitlessly affect
all but the aforementioned case.
Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <den@klaipeden.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
IPSec crypto offload depends on the protocol-specific
offload module (such as esp_offload.ko).
When the user installs an SA with crypto-offload, load
the offload module automatically, in the same way
that the protocol module is loaded (such as esp.ko)
Signed-off-by: Ilan Tayari <ilant@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
retain last used xfrm_dst in a pcpu cache.
On next request, reuse this dst if the policies are the same.
The cache will not help with strict RR workloads as there is no hit.
The cache packet-path part is reasonably small, the notifier part is
needed so we do not add long hangs when a device is dismantled but some
pcpu xdst still holds a reference, there are also calls to the flush
operation when userspace deletes SAs so modules can be removed
(there is no hit.
We need to run the dst_release on the correct cpu to avoid races with
packet path. This is done by adding a work_struct for each cpu and then
doing the actual test/release on each affected cpu via schedule_work_on().
Test results using 4 network namespaces and null encryption:
ns1 ns2 -> ns3 -> ns4
netperf -> xfrm/null enc -> xfrm/null dec -> netserver
what TCP_STREAM UDP_STREAM UDP_RR
Flow cache: 14644.61 294.35 327231.64
No flow cache: 14349.81 242.64 202301.72
Pcpu cache: 14629.70 292.21 205595.22
UDP tests used 64byte packets, tests ran for one minute each,
value is average over ten iterations.
'Flow cache' is 'net-next', 'No flow cache' is net-next plus this
series but without this patch.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Steffen Klassert says:
====================
pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2017-06-23
1) Use memdup_user to spmlify xfrm_user_policy.
From Geliang Tang.
2) Make xfrm_dev_register static to silence a sparse warning.
From Wei Yongjun.
3) Use crypto_memneq to check the ICV in the AH protocol.
From Sabrina Dubroca.
4) Remove some unused variables in esp6.
From Stephen Hemminger.
5) Extend XFRM MIGRATE to allow to change the UDP encapsulation port.
From Antony Antony.
6) Include the UDP encapsulation port to km_migrate announcements.
From Antony Antony.
Please pull or let me know if there are problems.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add XFRMA_ENCAP, UDP encapsulation port, to km_migrate announcement
to userland. Only add if XFRMA_ENCAP was in user migrate request.
Signed-off-by: Antony Antony <antony@phenome.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@tricolour.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Add UDP encapsulation port to XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE using an optional
netlink attribute XFRMA_ENCAP.
The devices that support IKE MOBIKE extension (RFC-4555 Section 3.8)
could go to sleep for a few minutes and wake up. When it wake up the
NAT mapping could have expired, the device send a MOBIKE UPDATE_SA
message to migrate the IPsec SA. The change could be a change UDP
encapsulation port, IP address, or both.
Reported-by: Paul Wouters <pwouters@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Antony Antony <antony@phenome.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@tricolour.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
During xfrm migration copy replay and preplay sequence numbers
from the previous state.
Here is a tcpdump output showing the problem.
10.0.10.46 is running vanilla kernel, is the IKE/IPsec responder.
After the migration it sent wrong sequence number, reset to 1.
The migration is from 10.0.0.52 to 10.0.0.53.
IP 10.0.0.52.4500 > 10.0.10.46.4500: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0x43ef462d,seq=0x7cf), length 136
IP 10.0.10.46.4500 > 10.0.0.52.4500: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xca1c282d,seq=0x7cf), length 136
IP 10.0.0.52.4500 > 10.0.10.46.4500: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0x43ef462d,seq=0x7d0), length 136
IP 10.0.10.46.4500 > 10.0.0.52.4500: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xca1c282d,seq=0x7d0), length 136
IP 10.0.0.53.4500 > 10.0.10.46.4500: NONESP-encap: isakmp: child_sa inf2[I]
IP 10.0.10.46.4500 > 10.0.0.53.4500: NONESP-encap: isakmp: child_sa inf2[R]
IP 10.0.0.53.4500 > 10.0.10.46.4500: NONESP-encap: isakmp: child_sa inf2[I]
IP 10.0.10.46.4500 > 10.0.0.53.4500: NONESP-encap: isakmp: child_sa inf2[R]
IP 10.0.0.53.4500 > 10.0.10.46.4500: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0x43ef462d,seq=0x7d1), length 136
NOTE: next sequence is wrong 0x1
IP 10.0.10.46.4500 > 10.0.0.53.4500: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xca1c282d,seq=0x1), length 136
IP 10.0.0.53.4500 > 10.0.10.46.4500: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0x43ef462d,seq=0x7d2), length 136
IP 10.0.10.46.4500 > 10.0.0.53.4500: UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0xca1c282d,seq=0x2), length 136
Signed-off-by: Antony Antony <antony@phenome.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@tricolour.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Use memdup_user() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
This patch adds all the bits that are needed to do
IPsec hardware offload for IPsec states and ESP packets.
We add xfrmdev_ops to the net_device. xfrmdev_ops has
function pointers that are needed to manage the xfrm
states in the hardware and to do a per packet
offloading decision.
Joint work with:
Ilan Tayari <ilant@mellanox.com>
Guy Shapiro <guysh@mellanox.com>
Yossi Kuperman <yossiku@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Guy Shapiro <guysh@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilan Tayari <ilant@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Yossi Kuperman <yossiku@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
We add a struct xfrm_type_offload so that we have the offloaded
codepath separated to the non offloaded codepath. With this the
non offloade and the offloaded codepath can coexist.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Dan reports following smatch warning:
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:659
error: we previously assumed 'afinfo' could be null (see line 651)
649 struct xfrm_state_afinfo *afinfo = xfrm_state_afinfo_get_rcu(family);
651 if (afinfo)
...
658 }
659 afinfo->init_temprop(x, tmpl, daddr, saddr);
I am resonably sure afinfo cannot be NULL here.
xfrm_state4.c and state6.c are both part of ipv4/ipv6 (depends on
CONFIG_XFRM, a boolean) but even if ipv6 is a module state6.c can't
be removed (ipv6 lacks module_exit so it cannot be removed).
The only callers for xfrm6_fini that leads to state backend unregister
are error unwinding paths that can be called during ipv6 init function.
So after ipv6 module is loaded successfully the state backend cannot go
away anymore.
The family value from policy lookup path is taken from dst_entry, so
that should always be AF_INET(6).
However, since this silences the warning and avoids readers of this
code wondering about possible null deref it seems preferrable to
be defensive and just add the old check back.
Fixes: 711059b975 ("xfrm: add and use xfrm_state_afinfo_get_rcu")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Instead of:
if (foo) {
unlock();
return bar();
}
unlock();
do:
unlock();
if (foo)
return bar();
This is ok because rcu protected structure is only dereferenced before
the conditional.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
xfrm_init_tempstate is always called from within rcu read side section.
We can thus use a simpler function that doesn't call rcu_read_lock
again.
While at it, also make xfrm_init_tempstate return value void, the
return value was never tested.
A followup patch will replace remaining callers of xfrm_state_get_afinfo
with xfrm_state_afinfo_get_rcu variant and then remove the 'old'
get_afinfo interface.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
xfrm/xfrm_state.c:1973:21: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
Harmless, but lets fix it to reduce the noise.
While at it, get rid of unneeded NULL check, its never hit:
net/ipv4/xfrm4_state.c: xfrm_state_register_afinfo(&xfrm4_state_afinfo);
net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c: return xfrm_state_register_afinfo(&xfrm6_state_afinfo);
net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c: xfrm_state_unregister_afinfo(&xfrm6_state_afinfo);
... are the only callsites.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Once flow cache gets removed the mtu initialisation happens for every skb
that gets an xfrm attached, so this lock starts to show up in perf.
It is not obvious why this lock is required -- the caller holds
reference on the state struct, type->destructor is only called from the
state gc worker (all state structs on gc list must have refcount 0).
xfrm_init_state already has been called (else private data accessed
by type->get_mtu() would not be set up).
So just remove the lock -- the race on the state (DEAD?) doesn't
matter (could change right after dropping the lock too).
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
o s/descentant/descendant
o s/workarbound/workaround
Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
ktime_set(S,N) was required for the timespec storage type and is still
useful for situations where a Seconds and Nanoseconds part of a time value
needs to be converted. For anything where the Seconds argument is 0, this
is pointless and can be replaced with a simple assignment.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)
to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Not used anymore since 2009 (9e0d57fd6d,
'xfrm: SAD entries do not expire correctly after suspend-resume').
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Steffen Klassert says:
====================
pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2016-09-23
Only two patches this time:
1) Fix a comment reference to struct xfrm_replay_state_esn.
From Richard Guy Briggs.
2) Convert xfrm_state_lookup to rcu, we don't need the
xfrm_state_lock anymore in the input path.
From Florian Westphal.
Please pull or let me know if there are problems.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is called from the packet input path, we get lock contention
if many cpus handle ipsec in parallel.
After recent rcu conversion it is safe to call __xfrm_state_lookup
without the spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
commit 1a6509d991 ("[IPSEC]: Add support for combined mode algorithms")
introduced aead. The function attach_aead kmemdup()s the algorithm
name during xfrm_state_construct().
However this memory is never freed.
Implementation has since been slightly modified in
commit ee5c23176f ("xfrm: Clone states properly on migration")
without resolving this leak.
This patch adds a kfree() call for the aead algorithm name.
Fixes: 1a6509d991 ("[IPSEC]: Add support for combined mode algorithms")
Signed-off-by: Ilan Tayari <ilant@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Rami Rosen <roszenrami@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
After commit 5b8ef3415a
("xfrm: Remove ancient sleeping when the SA is in acquire state")
gc does not need any per-netns data anymore.
As far as gc is concerned all state structs are the same, so we
can use a global work struct for it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
push the lock down, after earlier patches we can rely on rcu to
make sure state struct won't go away.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Before xfrm_state_find() can use rcu_read_lock instead of xfrm_state_lock
we need to switch users of the hash table to assign/obtain the pointers
with the appropriate rcu helpers.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Once xfrm_state_find is lockless we have to cope with a concurrent
resize opertion.
We use a sequence counter to block in case a resize is in progress
and to detect if we might have missed a state that got moved to
a new hash table.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
The hash table backend memory and the state structs are free'd via
kfree/vfree.
Once we only rely on rcu during lookups we have to make sure no other cpu
is currently accessing this before doing the free.
Free operations already happen from worker so we can use synchronize_rcu
to wait until concurrent readers are done.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Once xfrm_state_lookup_byaddr no longer acquires the state lock another
cpu might be freeing the state entry at the same time.
To detect this we use atomic_inc_not_zero, we then signal -EAGAIN to
caller in case our result was stale.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
This is required once we allow lockless access of bydst/bysrc hash tables.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/phy/amd-xgbe-phy.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
include/net/mac80211.h
iwlwifi/Kconfig and mac80211.h were both trivial overlapping
changes.
The drivers/net/phy/amd-xgbe-phy.c file got removed in 'net-next' and
the bug fix that happened on the 'net' side is already integrated
into the rest of the amd-xgbe driver.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The returned xfrm_state should be hold before unlock xfrm_state_lock,
otherwise the returned xfrm_state maybe be released.
Fixes: c454997e6[{pktgen, xfrm} Introduce xfrm_state_lookup_byspi..]
Cc: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
If xfrm_*_register_afinfo failed since xfrm_*_afinfo[afinfo->family] had the
value, return the -EEXIST, not -ENOBUFS
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
The walk from input is the list header, and marked as dead, and will
be skipped in loop.
list_first_entry() can be used to return the true usable value from
walk if walk is not empty
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
In many places, the a6 field is typecasted to struct in6_addr. As the
fields are in union anyway, just add in6_addr type to the union and
get rid of the typecasting.
Modifying the uapi header is okay, the union has still the same size.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In xfrm_state.c, hash_resize_mutex is defined as a local variable
and only used in xfrm_hash_resize() which is declared as a work
handler of xfrm.state_hash_work. But when the xfrm.state_hash_work
work is put in the global workqueue(system_wq) with schedule_work(),
the work will be really inserted in the global workqueue if it was
not already queued, otherwise, it is still left in the same position
on the the global workqueue. This means the xfrm_hash_resize() work
handler is only executed once at any time no matter how many times
its work is scheduled, that is, xfrm_hash_resize() is not called
concurrently at all, so hash_resize_mutex is redundant for us.
Cc: Christophe Gouault <christophe.gouault@6wind.com>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Commit f1370cc4 "xfrm: Remove useless secid field from xfrm_audit." changed
"struct xfrm_audit" to have either
{ audit_get_loginuid(current) / audit_get_sessionid(current) } or
{ INVALID_UID / -1 } pair.
This means that we can represent "struct xfrm_audit" as "bool".
This patch replaces "struct xfrm_audit" argument with "bool".
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
It seems to me that commit ab5f5e8b "[XFRM]: xfrm audit calls" is doing
something strange at xfrm_audit_helper_usrinfo().
If secid != 0 && security_secid_to_secctx(secid) != 0, the caller calls
audit_log_task_context() which basically does
secid != 0 && security_secid_to_secctx(secid) == 0 case
except that secid is obtained from current thread's context.
Oh, what happens if secid passed to xfrm_audit_helper_usrinfo() was
obtained from other thread's context? It might audit current thread's
context rather than other thread's context if security_secid_to_secctx()
in xfrm_audit_helper_usrinfo() failed for some reason.
Then, are all the caller of xfrm_audit_helper_usrinfo() passing either
secid obtained from current thread's context or secid == 0?
It seems to me that they are.
If I didn't miss something, we don't need to pass secid to
xfrm_audit_helper_usrinfo() because audit_log_task_context() will
obtain secid from current thread's context.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Steffen Klassert says:
====================
One patch to rename a newly introduced struct. The rest is
the rework of the IPsec virtual tunnel interface for ipv6 to
support inter address family tunneling and namespace crossing.
1) Rename the newly introduced struct xfrm_filter to avoid a
conflict with iproute2. From Nicolas Dichtel.
2) Introduce xfrm_input_afinfo to access the address family
dependent tunnel callback functions properly.
3) Add and use a IPsec protocol multiplexer for ipv6.
4) Remove dst_entry caching. vti can lookup multiple different
dst entries, dependent of the configured xfrm states. Therefore
it does not make to cache a dst_entry.
5) Remove caching of flow informations. vti6 does not use the the
tunnel endpoint addresses to do route and xfrm lookups.
6) Update the vti6 to use its own receive hook.
7) Remove the now unused xfrm_tunnel_notifier. This was used from vti
and is replaced by the IPsec protocol multiplexer hooks.
8) Support inter address family tunneling for vti6.
9) Check if the tunnel endpoints of the xfrm state and the vti interface
are matching and return an error otherwise.
10) Enable namespace crossing for vti devices.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
iproute2 already defines a structure with that name, let's use another one to
avoid any conflict.
CC: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c
net/ipv6/sit.c
The SIT driver conflict consists of a bug fix being done by hand
in 'net' (missing u64_stats_init()) whilst in 'net-next' a helper
was created (netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats()) which takes care of this.
The two wireless conflicts were overlapping changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The error pointer passed to xfrm_state_clone() is unchecked,
so remove it and indicate an error by returning a null pointer.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
We loose a lot of information of the original state if we
clone it with xfrm_state_clone(). In particular, there is
no crypto algorithm attached if the original state uses
an aead algorithm. This patch add the missing information
to the clone state.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
A comment on xfrm_migrate_state_find() says that xfrm_state_lock
is held. This is apparently not the case, but we need it to
traverse through the state lists.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>