From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jungwoo Lee <jwlee2217@gmail.com>,
Wongi Lee <qw3rtyp0@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp()
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:30:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260915043055.3441600-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
sk->sk_flags must only be changed while holding the socket lock,
because sock_set_flag() and sock_reset_flag() use non atomic
operations (__set_bit() and __clear_bit()).
sock_gettstamp() is one of the last places where a bit of sk->sk_flags
is changed from a syscall without owning the socket lock, through
sock_enable_timestamp(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP).
sk_set_memalloc() and sk_clear_memalloc() also change sk->sk_flags
without the socket lock, but their callers (nbd, iscsi_tcp, nvme-tcp,
sunrpc, wireguard) need a careful audit, this will be addressed in a
separate patch.
Jungwoo Lee and Wongi Lee reported an UDP socket use-after-free
caused by this bug: a SIOCGSTAMPNS_NEW ioctl racing with bind()
can cancel the SOCK_RCU_FREE bit that udp_lib_get_port() just set,
because both threads perform a read-modify-write on the same word.
CPU 0 (bind) CPU 1 (SIOCGSTAMPNS_NEW)
-------------------------------- ----------------------------
read sk_flags = F read sk_flags = F
compute F | BIT(SOCK_RCU_FREE) compute F | BIT(SOCK_TIMESTAMP)
store F | BIT(SOCK_RCU_FREE)
sk_add_node_rcu(sk, ...)
store F | BIT(SOCK_TIMESTAMP)
After the lost update, SOCK_RCU_FREE is clear while the socket is
visible to lockless UDP receive lookups. sk_destruct() then frees
the socket immediately instead of waiting for a RCU grace period,
while the receive path still holds a reference-less pointer to it:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ipv4_pktinfo_prepare+0x30/0x410
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888008806610 by task exploit/207
CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 207 Comm: exploit Not tainted 6.12.95+ #1
ipv4_pktinfo_prepare+0x30/0x410
udp_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x51c/0x1180
udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x109/0x350
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x14b/0x310
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x29d/0x390
ip_local_deliver+0x24d/0x2a0
Only grab the socket lock when SOCK_TIMESTAMP has to be set,
to keep the common case lockless.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Jungwoo Lee <jwlee2217@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Wongi Lee <qw3rtyp0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
net/core/sock.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index fa60b7494c58691d3f5d34a62d2176c87086424a..d5e302e21e85b0637a3232f5a3e9dace9978e8ee 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -3911,7 +3911,14 @@ int sock_gettstamp(struct socket *sock, void __user *userstamp,
struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
struct timespec64 ts;
- sock_enable_timestamp(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP);
+ /* sk->sk_flags must only be changed under the socket lock,
+ * because sock_set_flag() uses non atomic operations.
+ */
+ if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP)) {
+ lock_sock(sk);
+ sock_enable_timestamp(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP);
+ release_sock(sk);
+ }
ts = ktime_to_timespec64(sock_read_timestamp(sk));
if (ts.tv_sec == -1)
return -ENOENT;
--
2.55.0.1032.g73a4cd73de-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 4:30 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-09-16 12:39 ` [PATCH net] net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() Simon Horman
2026-09-17 0:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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