From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
To: David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
oe-linux-nfc@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net RESEND] nfc: llcp: Fix list corruption / refcount desync in nfc_llcp_recv_dm()
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:33:39 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260923133339.2518641-1-qwe.aldo@gmail.com> (raw)
nfc_llcp_recv_dm() handles DM(NOBOUND)/DM(REJ) for a socket that is still
linked on local->connecting_sockets: it looks the socket up with
nfc_llcp_connecting_sock_get(), sets sk->sk_state = LLCP_CLOSED and
returns, without taking the socket lock and without unlinking the socket
from the connecting_sockets list.
llcp_sock_release() selects the list to unlink from by sk_state: a socket
in LLCP_CONNECTING is unlinked from connecting_sockets, otherwise from the
sockets list. Because recv_dm left the socket physically on
connecting_sockets but in the LLCP_CLOSED state, release() takes the else
branch and calls nfc_llcp_sock_unlink(&local->sockets, sk). That runs
sk_del_node_init() while holding sockets.lock, i.e. it removes the socket
from the connecting_sockets hlist under the wrong lock. A concurrent
connect() linking another socket onto connecting_sockets under
connecting_sockets.lock then mutates the same hlist unserialized, which
corrupts the list and desyncs the sk_add_node()/sk_del_node_init()
sock_hold()/__sock_put() pairing. An unprivileged local process holding
LLCP sockets, with the DM supplied by the remote peer over an established
LLCP link, can drive this to leak kernel sockets without bound (the
mis-decrement goes through the non-freeing __sock_put() path, so the
object is never released), leading to memory exhaustion / DoS.
This is the same class of bug that was fixed in the sibling handler
nfc_llcp_recv_cc() by commit b493ea2765cc ("nfc: llcp: Fix use-after-free
race in nfc_llcp_recv_cc()"); recv_dm did not receive the equivalent fix.
Fix it the same way: take lock_sock(), re-check that the socket is still
hashed (release() may have won the race), and for the NOBOUND/REJ case
unlink it from connecting_sockets before moving it to LLCP_CLOSED. The
unlink drops the connecting_sockets membership reference via
sk_del_node_init(), leaving the socket unhashed, so the later
nfc_llcp_sock_unlink() in llcp_sock_release() becomes a no-op and no
double put occurs.
Fixes: a69f32af86e3 ("NFC: Socket linked list")
Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
---
net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
index cac1b5487..bd6361e2e 100644
--- a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
+++ b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
@@ -1251,6 +1251,7 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_dm(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
struct nfc_llcp_sock *llcp_sock;
struct sock *sk;
u8 dsap, ssap, reason;
+ bool connecting = false;
dsap = nfc_llcp_dsap(skb);
ssap = nfc_llcp_ssap(skb);
@@ -1262,6 +1263,7 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_dm(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
case LLCP_DM_NOBOUND:
case LLCP_DM_REJ:
llcp_sock = nfc_llcp_connecting_sock_get(local, dsap);
+ connecting = true;
break;
default:
@@ -1276,10 +1278,33 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_dm(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
sk = &llcp_sock->sk;
+ lock_sock(sk);
+
+ /* Check if socket was destroyed whilst waiting for the lock */
+ if (!sk_hashed(sk)) {
+ release_sock(sk);
+ nfc_llcp_sock_put(llcp_sock);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * For DM(NOBOUND)/DM(REJ) the socket is still linked on the
+ * connecting_sockets list. Unlink it here, under the socket lock,
+ * before moving it to LLCP_CLOSED: llcp_sock_release() selects the
+ * list to unlink from by sk_state, so leaving a connecting socket
+ * in the CLOSED state would make it unlink from the wrong list and
+ * corrupt the connecting_sockets list / desync the socket refcount.
+ * This mirrors nfc_llcp_recv_cc().
+ */
+ if (connecting)
+ nfc_llcp_sock_unlink(&local->connecting_sockets, sk);
+
sk->sk_err = ENXIO;
sk->sk_state = LLCP_CLOSED;
sk->sk_state_change(sk);
+ release_sock(sk);
+
nfc_llcp_sock_put(llcp_sock);
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-23 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-23 13:33 Aldo Ariel Panzardo [this message]
2026-09-24 3:10 ` [PATCH net RESEND] nfc: llcp: Fix list corruption / refcount desync in nfc_llcp_recv_dm() patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-09-25 1:35 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-25 2:35 ` [PATCH net] nfc: llcp: check socket state after locking " Aldo Ariel Panzardo
2026-09-25 15:16 ` David Heidelberg
2026-09-28 17:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
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