[PATCH 6.12 073/567] net/handshake: duplicate handshake cancellations leak socket

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:20:04Z

From: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 15564bd67e2975002f2a8e9defee33e321d3183f ]

When a handshake request is cancelled it is removed from the
handshake_net->hn_requests list, but it is still present in the
handshake_rhashtbl until it is destroyed.

If a second cancellation request arrives for the same handshake request,
then remove_pending() will return false... and assuming
HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED isn't set in req->hr_flags, we'll continue
processing through the out_true label, where we put another reference on
the sock and a refcount underflow occurs.

This can happen for example if a handshake times out - particularly if
the SUNRPC client sends the AUTH_TLS probe to the server but doesn't
follow it up with the ClientHello due to a problem with tlshd. When the
timeout is hit on the server, the server will send a FIN, which triggers
a cancellation request via xs_reset_transport(). When the timeout is
hit on the client, another cancellation request happens via
xs_tls_handshake_sync().

Add a test_and_set_bit(HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED) in the pending cancel
path so duplicate cancels can be detected.

Fixes: 3b3009ea8abb ("net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for handling handshake requests")
Suggested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251209193015.3032058-1-smayhew@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/handshake/request.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/handshake/request.c b/net/handshake/request.c
index 94d5cef3e048b..0ac126b0add60 100644
--- a/net/handshake/request.c
+++ b/net/handshake/request.c
@@ -325,7 +325,11 @@ bool handshake_req_cancel(struct sock *sk)

hn = handshake_pernet(net);
if (hn && remove_pending(hn, req)) {
- /* Request hadn't been accepted */
+ /* Request hadn't been accepted - mark cancelled */
+ if (test_and_set_bit(HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED, &req->hr_flags)) {
+ trace_handshake_cancel_busy(net, req, sk);
+ return false;
+ }
goto out_true;
}
if (test_and_set_bit(HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED, &req->hr_flags)) {
--
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