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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>,
	Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>,
	Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] mptcp: reject DATA_ACKs against a reversed send interval
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 2026 14:07:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104130747.1045741-1-edumazet@kernel.org> (raw)

From: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>

ack_update_msk() samples snd_nxt before taking the data lock, but reads
snd_una after taking it. Concurrent transmission and ACK processing can
therefore leave the sampled upper bound behind snd_una. Active-open
completion also exposes a reversed interval when it initializes snd_una
to IDSN + 1 while the socket-owned state synchronization is deferred.

A peer-supplied 64-bit Data ACK half a sequence space away can pass both
wraparound comparisons against such an interval. The resulting snd_una
can make __mptcp_retrans() inflate a fragment's already_sent field. Later
ACKs can then underflow data_len and cause out-of-bounds page fragments
to be passed to TCP.

Read snd_nxt after acquiring the data lock and reject reversed intervals
before checking the received Data ACK. This keeps the interval shorter
than half the sequence space, so the existing upper-bound check cannot
accept an advance beyond snd_nxt. Preserve the existing handling of old
ACKs and keep the transmit fields under their existing socket locking.

Fixes: 7439d687b79c ("mptcp: avoid a few atomic ops in the rx path")
Fixes: 3f83d8a77eee ("mptcp: fix more tx path fields initialization")
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
 net/mptcp/options.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/options.c b/net/mptcp/options.c
index 64aa7a516a23..02e785a14b8a 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/options.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/options.c
@@ -1122,9 +1122,9 @@ static void ack_update_msk(struct mptcp_sock *msk,
 			   struct sock *ssk,
 			   struct mptcp_options_received *mp_opt)
 {
-	u64 new_wnd_end, new_snd_una, snd_nxt = READ_ONCE(msk->snd_nxt);
+	u64 new_wnd_end, new_snd_una, old_snd_una;
 	struct sock *sk = (struct sock *)msk;
-	u64 old_snd_una;
+	u64 snd_nxt;
 
 	mptcp_data_lock(sk);
 
@@ -1133,10 +1133,14 @@ static void ack_update_msk(struct mptcp_sock *msk,
 	 * more dangerous than missing an ack
 	 */
 	old_snd_una = msk->snd_una;
+	snd_nxt = READ_ONCE(msk->snd_nxt);
 	new_snd_una = mptcp_expand_seq(old_snd_una, mp_opt->data_ack, mp_opt->ack64);
 
-	/* ACK for data not even sent yet? Ignore.*/
-	if (unlikely(after64(new_snd_una, snd_nxt)))
+	/* The active-open state sync can defer the snd_nxt update. Do not
+	 * accept an ACK against a reversed interval, or beyond snd_nxt.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(before64(snd_nxt, old_snd_una) ||
+		     after64(new_snd_una, snd_nxt)))
 		new_snd_una = old_snd_una;
 
 	new_wnd_end = new_snd_una + tcp_sk(ssk)->snd_wnd;
-- 
2.53.0


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