[PATCH 6.12 45/70] net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13T16:12:26Z

From: Muhammad Alifa Ramdhan <ramdhan@starlabs.sg>

commit a9b8b18364fffce4c451e6f6fd218fa4ab646705 upstream.

The -EBUSY handling in tls_do_encryption(), introduced by commit
859054147318 ("net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests"), has
a use-after-free due to double cleanup of encrypt_pending and the
scatterlist entry.

When crypto_aead_encrypt() returns -EBUSY, the request is enqueued to
the cryptd backlog and the async callback tls_encrypt_done() will be
invoked upon completion. That callback unconditionally restores the
scatterlist entry (sge->offset, sge->length) and decrements
ctx->encrypt_pending. However, if tls_encrypt_async_wait() returns an
error, the synchronous error path in tls_do_encryption() performs the
same cleanup again, double-decrementing encrypt_pending and
double-restoring the scatterlist.

The double-decrement corrupts the encrypt_pending sentinel (initialized
to 1), making tls_encrypt_async_wait() permanently skip the wait for
pending async callbacks. A subsequent sendmsg can then free the
tls_rec via bpf_exec_tx_verdict() while a cryptd callback is still
pending, resulting in a use-after-free when the callback fires on the
freed record.

Fix this by skipping the synchronous cleanup when the -EBUSY async
wait returns an error, since the callback has already handled
encrypt_pending and sge restoration.

Fixes: 859054147318 ("net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Alifa Ramdhan <ramdhan@starlabs.sg>
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403013617.2838875-1-ramdhan@starlabs.sg
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/tls/tls_sw.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
@@ -584,6 +584,16 @@ static int tls_do_encryption(struct sock
if (rc == -EBUSY) {
rc = tls_encrypt_async_wait(ctx);
rc = rc ?: -EINPROGRESS;
+ /*
+ * The async callback tls_encrypt_done() has already
+ * decremented encrypt_pending and restored the sge on
+ * both success and error. Skip the synchronous cleanup
+ * below on error, just remove the record and return.
+ */
+ if (rc != -EINPROGRESS) {
+ list_del(&rec->list);
+ return rc;
+ }
}
if (!rc || rc != -EINPROGRESS) {
atomic_dec(&ctx->encrypt_pending);