From: Anderson Nascimento <anderson@allelesecurity.com>
To: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: marc.dionne@auristor.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
horms@kernel.org, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Anderson Nascimento <anderson@allelesecurity.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] rxrpc: Fix keyring reference count leak in rxrpc_setsockopt()
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:23:26 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260313132327.409785-2-anderson@allelesecurity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260313132327.409785-1-anderson@allelesecurity.com>
In rxrpc_setsockopt(), the code checks 'rx->key' when handling the
RXRPC_SECURITY_KEYRING option. However, this appears to be a logic error.
The code should be checking 'rx->securities' to determine if a keyring
has already been defined for the socket.
Currently, if a user calls setsockopt(RXRPC_SECURITY_KEYRING) multiple
times on the same socket, the check 'if (rx->key)' fails to block
subsequent calls because 'rx->key' has not been defined by the function.
This results in a reference count leak on the keyring.
This patch changes the check to 'rx->securities' to correctly identify
if the socket security keyring has already been configured, returning -EINVAL
on subsequent attempts.
Before the patch:
It shows the keyring reference counter elevated.
$ cat /proc/keys | grep AFSkeys1
27aca8ae I--Q--- 24469721 perm 3f010000 1000 1000 keyring AFSkeys1: empty
$
After the patch:
The keyring reference counter remains stable and subsequent calls return an error:
$ ./poc
setsockopt: Invalid argument
$
Fixes: 17926a7 ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Signed-off-by: Anderson Nascimento <anderson@allelesecurity.com>
---
net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
index 0c2c68c4b07e..add72ac61f73 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static int rxrpc_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
case RXRPC_SECURITY_KEYRING:
ret = -EINVAL;
- if (rx->key)
+ if (rx->securities)
goto error;
ret = -EISCONN;
if (rx->sk.sk_state != RXRPC_UNBOUND)
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-13 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 13:23 [PATCH 0/2] rxrpc: Fix key and keyring reference count leaks Anderson Nascimento
2026-03-13 13:23 ` Anderson Nascimento [this message]
2026-03-19 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] rxrpc: Fix keyring reference count leak in rxrpc_setsockopt() Simon Horman
2026-03-19 16:55 ` David Howells
2026-03-20 8:24 ` Simon Horman
2026-03-13 13:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] rxrpc: Fix key reference count leak in rxrpc_alloc_client_call() Anderson Nascimento
2026-03-18 21:46 ` David Howells
2026-03-18 22:20 ` David Howells
2026-03-18 22:30 ` Anderson Nascimento
2026-03-19 14:46 ` Anderson Nascimento
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