From: HanQuan <eilaimemedsnaimel@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: edumazet@google.com, ncardwell@google.com,
HanQuan <eilaimemedsnaimel@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of key in del_async path
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:52:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260623015208.1191687-1-eilaimemedsnaimel@gmail.com> (raw)
In tcp_ao_delete_key(), the del_async path skips the current_key
and rnext_key validity checks present in the synchronous path,
assuming these pointers are always NULL on LISTEN sockets. However,
if a key was added with set_current=1/set_rnext=1 while the socket
was in CLOSE state, current_key and rnext_key will be non-NULL
after listen() transitions the socket to LISTEN.
When such a key is deleted with del_async=1, hlist_del_rcu() and
call_rcu() free the key without clearing the dangling pointers.
After the RCU grace period, getsockopt(TCP_AO_INFO) dereferences
current_key->sndid and rnext_key->rcvid from freed slab memory.
Clear current_key and rnext_key in the del_async path when they
reference the key being deleted.
Fixes: d6732b95b6fb ("net/tcp: Allow asynchronous delete for TCP-AO keys (MKTs)")
Signed-off-by: HanQuan <eilaimemedsnaimel@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
index 2f69bcecae78..a56bb79e15e0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
@@ -1747,6 +1747,10 @@ static int tcp_ao_delete_key(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_ao_info *ao_info,
* them and we can just free all resources in RCU fashion.
*/
if (del_async) {
+ if (ao_info->current_key == key)
+ WRITE_ONCE(ao_info->current_key, NULL);
+ if (ao_info->rnext_key == key)
+ WRITE_ONCE(ao_info->rnext_key, NULL);
atomic_sub(tcp_ao_sizeof_key(key), &sk->sk_omem_alloc);
call_rcu(&key->rcu, tcp_ao_key_free_rcu);
return 0;
--
2.43.0
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2026-06-23 1:52 HanQuan [this message]
2026-06-23 5:50 ` [PATCH] net/tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of key in del_async path Eric Dumazet
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