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From: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Cc: John Ericson <mail@johnericson.me>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	David Rheinsberg <david@readahead.eu>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@multikernel.io>,
	John Ericson <john.ericson@obsidian.systems>,
	Sergei Zimmerman <sergei@zimmerman.foo>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] af_unix: fix listen() succeeding on sockets in the wrong state
Date: Thu,  2 Jul 2026 16:20:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260702202018.2280336-1-John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> (raw)

From: John Ericson <mail@johnericson.me>

Commit fd0a109a0f6b ("net, pidfs: prepare for handing out pidfds for
reaped sk->sk_peer_pid") inserted a `prepare_peercred()` call between
`err = -EINVAL` and the socket-state check in `unix_listen()`. Since
`prepare_peercred()` leaves `err` at 0 on success, `listen()` on an
AF_UNIX socket that is not in `TCP_CLOSE` or `TCP_LISTEN` state (e.g.
one that is already connected) now silently returns success without
doing anything, instead of failing with `EINVAL` as it did before.

To fix this bug, and avoid such bugs in the future, switch to a style
where `err = -E...;` instead happens right before the `goto`. (`err =
other_function(...);` is not changed.) Then there is no spooky-action-
at-a-distance between the `err` initialization and the `goto`, something
which is easier to slip by code review.

Fixes: fd0a109a0f6b ("net, pidfs: prepare for handing out pidfds for reaped sk->sk_peer_pid")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: John Ericson <mail@johnericson.me>
---
 net/unix/af_unix.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index f7a9d55eee8a..7878b27bbaf8 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -813,18 +813,22 @@ static int unix_listen(struct socket *sock, int backlog)
 	struct unix_sock *u = unix_sk(sk);
 	struct unix_peercred peercred = {};
 
-	err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	if (sock->type != SOCK_STREAM && sock->type != SOCK_SEQPACKET)
+	if (sock->type != SOCK_STREAM && sock->type != SOCK_SEQPACKET) {
+		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		goto out;	/* Only stream/seqpacket sockets accept */
-	err = -EINVAL;
-	if (!READ_ONCE(u->addr))
+	}
+	if (!READ_ONCE(u->addr)) {
+		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;	/* No listens on an unbound socket */
+	}
 	err = prepare_peercred(&peercred);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
 	unix_state_lock(sk);
-	if (sk->sk_state != TCP_CLOSE && sk->sk_state != TCP_LISTEN)
+	if (sk->sk_state != TCP_CLOSE && sk->sk_state != TCP_LISTEN) {
+		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto out_unlock;
+	}
 	if (backlog > sk->sk_max_ack_backlog)
 		wake_up_interruptible_all(&u->peer_wait);
 	sk->sk_max_ack_backlog	= backlog;
-- 
2.54.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-02 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-02 20:20 John Ericson [this message]
2026-07-02 23:17 ` [PATCH net] af_unix: fix listen() succeeding on sockets in the wrong state Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-07-03  0:36 ` Cong Wang

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