From: RubenKelevra <rubenkelevra@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, ncardwell@google.com
Cc: kuniyu@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, dsahern@kernel.org,
kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
RubenKelevra <rubenkelevra@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: fix orphan count order in __tcp_close()
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:25:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260417202518.1354891-1-rubenkelevra@gmail.com> (raw)
__tcp_close() calls sock_orphan(sk) first and drains the backlog with
__release_sock(sk), which might call tcp_done() which decrements the
tcp_orphan_count. After which we will increment tcp_orphan_count again.
Since tcp_orphan_count is an unsigned int, we underflow to uint_max if we
started with a 0 - at least on all current supported platforms.
I could not locate a direct user of this value, and in
tcp_orphan_count_sum() this underflow is contained by adding the unsigned
int value into a signed int sum, causing it to behave like -1 on current
supported platforms and then get clamped by max(n, 0) to 0.
The impact therefore is currently limited to e.g. tcp_too_many_orphans()
checking an artificially low value, if the cached sum is refreshed within
this timeframe.
This fix mirrors the previous fix I found while investigating: commit
75c2d9077c63 ("[TCP]: Fix sock_orphan dead lock")
Later commit eb4dea585304 ("net: Fix percpu counters deadlock") moved the
increment down for old percpu_counter reasons. commit 19757cebf0c5 ("tcp:
switch orphan_count to bare per-cpu counters") changed orphan accounting to
plain per-cpu counters, so that old reason no longer applies the same way
now.
Fixes: 19757cebf0c5 ("tcp: switch orphan_count to bare per-cpu counters")
Signed-off-by: RubenKelevra <rubenkelevra@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 2014a6408e93..1a91cb31b02f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -3234,11 +3234,10 @@ void __tcp_close(struct sock *sk, long timeout)
local_bh_disable();
bh_lock_sock(sk);
+ tcp_orphan_count_inc();
/* remove backlog if any, without releasing ownership. */
__release_sock(sk);
- tcp_orphan_count_inc();
-
/* Have we already been destroyed by a softirq or backlog? */
if (state != TCP_CLOSE && sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE)
goto out;
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-17 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-17 20:25 RubenKelevra [this message]
2026-04-17 20:54 ` [PATCH] tcp: fix orphan count order in __tcp_close() Eric Dumazet
2026-04-17 21:36 ` Ruben Kelevra
2026-04-17 21:43 ` Eric Dumazet
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