[PATCH net v2 1/2] tcp: call sk_data_ready() after listener migration

Zhenzhong Wu
2026-04-18T18:14:00Z

When inet_csk_listen_stop() migrates an established child socket from
a closing listener to another socket in the same SO_REUSEPORT group,
the target listener gets a new accept-queue entry via
inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add(), but that path never notifies the target
listener's waiters. A nonblocking accept() still works because it
checks the queue directly, but poll()/epoll_wait() waiters and
blocking accept() callers can also remain asleep indefinitely.

Call READ_ONCE(nsk->sk_data_ready)(nsk) after a successful migration
in inet_csk_listen_stop().

However, after inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() succeeds, the ref acquired
in reuseport_migrate_sock() is effectively transferred to
nreq->rsk_listener. Another CPU can then dequeue nreq via accept()
or listener shutdown, hit reqsk_put(), and drop that listener ref.
Since listeners are SOCK_RCU_FREE, wrap the post-queue_add()
dereferences of nsk in rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock(), which also
covers the existing sock_net(nsk) access in that path.

The reqsk_timer_handler() path does not need the same changes for two
reasons: half-open requests become readable only after the final ACK,
where tcp_child_process() already wakes the listener; and once nreq is
visible via inet_ehash_insert(), the success path no longer touches
nsk directly.

Fixes: 54b92e841937 ("tcp: Migrate TCP_ESTABLISHED/TCP_SYN_RECV sockets in accept queues.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Wu <jt26wzz@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index 4ac3ae1bc..928654c34 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -1479,16 +1479,19 @@ void inet_csk_listen_stop(struct sock *sk)
if (nreq) {
refcount_set(&nreq->rsk_refcnt, 1);

+ rcu_read_lock();
if (inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add(nsk, nreq, child)) {
__NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(nsk),
LINUX_MIB_TCPMIGRATEREQSUCCESS);
reqsk_migrate_reset(req);
+ READ_ONCE(nsk->sk_data_ready)(nsk);
} else {
__NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(nsk),
LINUX_MIB_TCPMIGRATEREQFAILURE);
reqsk_migrate_reset(nreq);
__reqsk_free(nreq);
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();

/* inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() has already
* called inet_child_forget() on failure case.
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