From: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
To: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>,
Tung Quang Nguyen <tung.quang.nguyen@est.tech>,
Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tipc: fix broadcast sender hang and leak on last acker departure
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:56:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261009055601.2304158-1-bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com> (raw)
TIPC group broadcast senders are blocked in poll()/write() until all
members have acked the replicast. When a departing member held the
last outstanding ack, tipc_group_delete_member() decrements
grp->bc_ackers to zero but never restores *grp->open nor wakes the
blocked senders; write() then sleeps until the send timeout and
poll() is never woken at all. Commit 99cc2a62e07a ("tipc: reject
invalid and unexpected GRP_ACK_MSG to prevent bc_ackers underflow")
noted this as a pre-existing issue.
Restore the open state exactly on the 1->0 acker transition in the
delete path, mirroring the GRP_ACK_MSG completion path, and invoke
sk->sk_write_space() from tipc_sk_filter_rcv() when the group just
became writable again.
This vulnerability was discovered by Tencent CodeBuddy Security.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2f487712b893 ("tipc: guarantee that group broadcast doesn't bypass group unicast")
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
---
net/tipc/group.c | 9 ++++++---
net/tipc/socket.c | 12 +++++++++++-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/tipc/group.c b/net/tipc/group.c
index 74f6d3dac0784..e20eb612f82ce 100644
--- a/net/tipc/group.c
+++ b/net/tipc/group.c
@@ -340,9 +340,12 @@ static void tipc_group_delete_member(struct tipc_group *grp,
rb_erase(&m->tree_node, &grp->members);
grp->member_cnt--;
- /* Check if we were waiting for replicast ack from this member */
- if (grp->bc_ackers && less(m->bc_acked, grp->bc_snd_nxt - 1))
- grp->bc_ackers--;
+ /* If this member held the last outstanding replicast ack,
+ * restore the open state so blocked broadcast senders can proceed.
+ */
+ if (grp->bc_ackers && less(m->bc_acked, grp->bc_snd_nxt - 1) &&
+ !--grp->bc_ackers)
+ *grp->open = true;
list_del_init(&m->list);
list_del_init(&m->small_win);
diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c
index d5d70eb230b56..65cc0c4964b31 100644
--- a/net/tipc/socket.c
+++ b/net/tipc/socket.c
@@ -2356,8 +2356,18 @@ static void tipc_sk_filter_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (unlikely(!msg_isdata(hdr)))
tipc_sk_proto_rcv(sk, &inputq, xmitq);
- if (unlikely(grp))
+ if (unlikely(grp)) {
+ bool was_open = tsk->group_is_open;
+
tipc_group_filter_msg(grp, &inputq, xmitq);
+ /* A departing member may have held the last outstanding
+ * replicast ack, which can restore the open state inside
+ * tipc_group_filter_msg(); wake up senders blocked in
+ * poll()/write() if the group just became writable.
+ */
+ if (!was_open && tsk->group_is_open)
+ sk->sk_write_space(sk);
+ }
if (unlikely(!grp) && mtyp == TIPC_MCAST_MSG)
tipc_mcast_filter_msg(net, &tsk->mc_method.deferredq, &inputq);
--
2.43.7
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