From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>, Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] strparser: make sure __strp_recv isn't running before tearing down the parser
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:51:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c80ea646f95abbd5beca2c081d129fe7d61a0aa.1790344112.git.sd@queasysnail.net> (raw)
The comment above strp_done() claims that if strp is stopped,
strp_recv will no longer be called. That's only true if the caller has
a mechanism (eg locking) to guarantee that strp_recv() calls that
started before strp_stop() have completed by the time we call
strp_done().
This adds a lock_sock/release_sock pair to guarantee that any
in-flight strp_recv() (which runs under either bh_lock_sock or
lock_sock, depending if it's called from ->sk_data_ready or strp_work)
has completed.
Only espintcp can be affected by this race condition, but this patch
makes sure no future user of strp can have the bug.
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aZgpkyTDU3aXe_V0@v4bel/
Fixes: e27cca96cd68 ("xfrm: add espintcp (RFC 8229)")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
---
This could crash on strp->sk ("general mode" of strp), but this mode
has been here for 9 years and has never been used. I'll send a
net-next patch to get rid of it.
net/strparser/strparser.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/strparser/strparser.c b/net/strparser/strparser.c
index a23f4b4dfc67..401e67533005 100644
--- a/net/strparser/strparser.c
+++ b/net/strparser/strparser.c
@@ -511,6 +511,10 @@ void strp_done(struct strparser *strp)
{
WARN_ON(!strp->stopped);
+ lock_sock(strp->sk);
+ /* sync with pending strp_recv */
+ release_sock(strp->sk);
+
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&strp->msg_timer_work);
cancel_work_sync(&strp->work);
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-25 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-25 13:51 Sabrina Dubroca [this message]
2026-09-28 8:12 ` [PATCH net] strparser: make sure __strp_recv isn't running before tearing down the parser Sabrina Dubroca
2026-09-28 9:07 ` Hyunwoo Kim
2026-09-28 9:23 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-28 9:32 ` Sabrina Dubroca
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