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From: David Lee <david.lee@trailofbits.com>
To: marcelo.leitner@gmail.com, lucien.xin@gmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com
Cc: David Lee <david.lee@trailofbits.com>,
	Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>,
	Dominik 'Disconnect3d' Czarnota
	<dominik.czarnota@trailofbits.com>,
	horms@kernel.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sctp: hold shkey across socket migration
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:05:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260731120558.558957-1-david.lee@trailofbits.com> (raw)

sctp_sock_migrate() transfers queued DATA skbs from the old socket to
the new one. skb_orphan() invokes sctp_wfree() during that transfer and
drops the skb-owned shared-key reference.

If userspace has removed that key from the association, this can be the
final reference. The following sctp_set_owner_w() then dereferences the
freed chunk->shkey while trying to take the new owner reference.

Take a temporary shared-key reference before orphaning the skb and
release it after the new owner has taken its reference. This preserves
the selected authentication key throughout the ownership transfer.

Fixes: 1b1e0bc99474 ("sctp: add refcnt support for sh_key")
Bug found and triaged by OpenAI Security Research and 
validated by Trail of Bits.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol gpt-5.5-cyber
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
---
Trail of Bits has a reproducer for this bug that triggers a 
KASAN use-after-free and can share if needed.

 net/sctp/socket.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index c7b9e325e..4a08023d5 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -147,9 +147,19 @@ static inline void sctp_set_owner_w(struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
 
 static void sctp_clear_owner_w(struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
 {
+	/* Keep the shkey alive until the new owner takes its reference. */
+	if (chunk->shkey)
+		sctp_auth_shkey_hold(chunk->shkey);
 	skb_orphan(chunk->skb);
 }
 
+static void sctp_set_owner_w_migrate(struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
+{
+	sctp_set_owner_w(chunk);
+	if (chunk->shkey)
+		sctp_auth_shkey_release(chunk->shkey);
+}
+
 #define traverse_and_process()	\
 do {				\
 	msg = chunk->msg;	\
@@ -9632,7 +9642,7 @@ static int sctp_sock_migrate(struct sock *oldsk, struct sock *newsk,
 	lock_sock_nested(newsk, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
 	sctp_for_each_tx_datachunk(assoc, true, sctp_clear_owner_w);
 	sctp_assoc_migrate(assoc, newsk);
-	sctp_for_each_tx_datachunk(assoc, false, sctp_set_owner_w);
+	sctp_for_each_tx_datachunk(assoc, false, sctp_set_owner_w_migrate);
 
 	/* If the association on the newsk is already closed before accept()
 	 * is called, set RCV_SHUTDOWN flag.
-- 
2.53.0

                 reply	other threads:[~2026-07-31 12:06 UTC|newest]

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