* [PATCH v2 net] tcp: fix stale per-CPU tcp_tw_isn leak enabling ISN prediction
@ 2026-05-12 17:52 Eric Dumazet
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From: Eric Dumazet @ 2026-05-12 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David S . Miller, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni
Cc: Simon Horman, Neal Cardwell, Kuniyuki Iwashima, netdev,
eric.dumazet, Eric Dumazet
Blamed commit moved the TIME_WAIT-derived ISN from the skb control
block to a per-CPU variable, assuming the value would always be consumed
by tcp_conn_request() for the same packet that wrote it. That assumption
is violated by multiple drop paths between the producer
(__this_cpu_write(tcp_tw_isn, isn) in tcp_v{4,6}_rcv()) and the consumer
(tcp_conn_request()):
- min_ttl / min_hopcount check
- xfrm policy check
- tcp_inbound_hash() MD5/AO mismatch
- tcp_filter() eBPF/SO_ATTACH_FILTER drop
- th->syn && th->fin discard in tcp_rcv_state_process() TCP_LISTEN
- psp_sk_rx_policy_check() in tcp_v{4,6}_do_rcv()
- tcp_checksum_complete() in tcp_v{4,6}_do_rcv()
- tcp_v{4,6}_cookie_check() returning NULL
When a packet is dropped on any of these paths, tcp_tw_isn is left set.
The next SYN processed on the same CPU then consumes the non zero value in
tcp_conn_request(), receiving a predictable ISN.
We could fix this by clearing tcp_tw_isn at tcp_v{4,6}_do_rcv() start,
at the expense of slower fast path.
This patch moves back tcp_tw_isn to skb, but not in skb->cb[] which
was the original problem. Instead, union it with skb->mark /
skb->reserved_tailroom which are unused in TCP receive path.
Fixes: 41eecbd712b7 ("tcp: replace TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_tw_isn with a per-cpu field")
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
v2: get rid of the per-cpu storage, this was too much hassle.
include/linux/skbuff.h | 1 +
include/net/tcp.h | 3 ---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 ---
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 15 ++++++---------
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 5 ++---
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 5 +++--
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 5 ++---
7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 2bcf78a4de7b9edb0d1342319d4340c0a9997eeb..93c6072c97b65ebabb5dd0245edff0728ff082d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1066,6 +1066,7 @@ struct sk_buff {
union {
__u32 mark;
__u32 reserved_tailroom;
+ u32 tcp_tw_isn;
};
union {
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index ecbadcb3a7446cb18c245e670ba49ff574dfaff7..74835c51e0d55ee9b35d422d442f951e37d95cbc 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ static inline void tcp_orphan_count_dec(void)
this_cpu_dec(tcp_orphan_count);
}
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(u32, tcp_tw_isn);
-
void tcp_time_wait(struct sock *sk, int state, int timeo);
#define MAX_TCP_HEADER L1_CACHE_ALIGN(128 + MAX_HEADER)
@@ -479,7 +477,6 @@ enum tcp_tw_status {
enum tcp_tw_status tcp_timewait_state_process(struct inet_timewait_sock *tw,
struct sk_buff *skb,
const struct tcphdr *th,
- u32 *tw_isn,
enum skb_drop_reason *drop_reason);
struct sock *tcp_check_req(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct request_sock *req, bool fastopen,
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 432fa28e47d4c8ef5d50339bfdf7da0ea8772b94..389a7cc17110daa5b3b490b3c339e53e212969f8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -299,9 +299,6 @@ enum {
DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, tcp_orphan_count);
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_orphan_count);
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(u32, tcp_tw_isn);
-EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_tw_isn);
-
long sysctl_tcp_mem[3] __read_mostly;
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, tcp_memory_per_cpu_fw_alloc);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index d5c9e65d97606d8eb57aba8ebc2373adf1bed62b..203660dc94efddfb6a79db8b5fce4d54dbe0b4ab 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -7594,25 +7594,22 @@ int tcp_conn_request(struct request_sock_ops *rsk_ops,
struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
struct sock *fastopen_sk = NULL;
union tcp_seq_and_ts_off st;
+ u32 isn = skb->tcp_tw_isn;
struct request_sock *req;
bool want_cookie = false;
struct dst_entry *dst;
struct flowi fl;
u8 syncookies;
- u32 isn;
#ifdef CONFIG_TCP_AO
const struct tcp_ao_hdr *aoh;
#endif
- isn = __this_cpu_read(tcp_tw_isn);
- if (isn) {
- /* TW buckets are converted to open requests without
- * limitations, they conserve resources and peer is
- * evidently real one.
- */
- __this_cpu_write(tcp_tw_isn, 0);
- } else {
+ /* TW buckets are converted to open requests without
+ * limitations, they conserve resources and peer is
+ * evidently real one.
+ */
+ if (!isn) {
syncookies = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syncookies);
if (syncookies == 2 || inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk)) {
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index c0526cc0398049fb34b5de20a1175d54942e80cd..719cfab3cd0296652791b9720fc25c9e437ca403 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -2077,7 +2077,6 @@ int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
struct sock *sk = NULL;
bool refcounted;
int ret;
- u32 isn;
drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;
if (skb->pkt_type != PACKET_HOST)
@@ -2198,6 +2197,7 @@ int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
}
}
+ skb->tcp_tw_isn = 0;
process:
if (static_branch_unlikely(&ip4_min_ttl)) {
/* min_ttl can be changed concurrently from do_ip_setsockopt() */
@@ -2299,7 +2299,7 @@ int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
goto csum_error;
}
- tw_status = tcp_timewait_state_process(inet_twsk(sk), skb, th, &isn,
+ tw_status = tcp_timewait_state_process(inet_twsk(sk), skb, th,
&drop_reason);
switch (tw_status) {
case TCP_TW_SYN: {
@@ -2313,7 +2313,6 @@ int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
sk = sk2;
tcp_v4_restore_cb(skb);
refcounted = false;
- __this_cpu_write(tcp_tw_isn, isn);
goto process;
}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
index e6092c3ac840bdc1f62d4435c414e7f79edc10c2..8396f396f326336a31bde408dfffcdd7de95187b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void twsk_rcv_nxt_update(struct tcp_timewait_sock *tcptw, u32 seq,
*/
enum tcp_tw_status
tcp_timewait_state_process(struct inet_timewait_sock *tw, struct sk_buff *skb,
- const struct tcphdr *th, u32 *tw_isn,
+ const struct tcphdr *th,
enum skb_drop_reason *drop_reason)
{
struct tcp_timewait_sock *tcptw = tcp_twsk((struct sock *)tw);
@@ -255,9 +255,10 @@ tcp_timewait_state_process(struct inet_timewait_sock *tw, struct sk_buff *skb,
(tmp_opt.saw_tstamp &&
(s32)(READ_ONCE(tcptw->tw_ts_recent) - tmp_opt.rcv_tsval) < 0))) {
u32 isn = tcptw->tw_snd_nxt + 65535 + 2;
+
if (isn == 0)
isn++;
- *tw_isn = isn;
+ skb->tcp_tw_isn = isn;
return TCP_TW_SYN;
}
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index d13d49bfef19457cc5902cb556605a80f4c0ab2c..208ec75703df17d5e53e133b888b6b93a5ec04e6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -1722,7 +1722,6 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int tcp_v6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
struct sock *sk = NULL;
bool refcounted;
int ret;
- u32 isn;
drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;
if (skb->pkt_type != PACKET_HOST)
@@ -1839,6 +1838,7 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int tcp_v6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
}
}
+ skb->tcp_tw_isn = 0;
process:
if (static_branch_unlikely(&ip6_min_hopcount)) {
/* min_hopcount can be changed concurrently from do_ipv6_setsockopt() */
@@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int tcp_v6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
goto csum_error;
}
- tw_status = tcp_timewait_state_process(inet_twsk(sk), skb, th, &isn,
+ tw_status = tcp_timewait_state_process(inet_twsk(sk), skb, th,
&drop_reason);
switch (tw_status) {
case TCP_TW_SYN:
@@ -1956,7 +1956,6 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int tcp_v6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
sk = sk2;
tcp_v6_restore_cb(skb);
refcounted = false;
- __this_cpu_write(tcp_tw_isn, isn);
goto process;
}
--
2.54.0.563.g4f69b47b94-goog
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