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* [PATCH net] sctp: drop a backlogged chunk if its transport was removed
@ 2026-08-14 23:43 Hyunwoo Kim
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From: Hyunwoo Kim @ 2026-08-14 23:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: marcelo.leitner, lucien.xin, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, horms
  Cc: linux-sctp, netdev, imv4bel

sctp_rcv() resolves the transport once per packet and leaves it in
chunk->transport. If the socket is owned by userspace the packet goes to
the socket backlog, and sctp_add_backlog() takes a reference on that
transport.

An authenticated ASCONF DEL-IP in an earlier backlogged packet can remove
it. sctp_assoc_rm_peer() takes the transport out of the association and
calls sctp_transport_free(), which tags it dead and drops the reference
the association held. The backlogged packet still holds a reference, so
the transport stays around.

The DATA chunk in that packet puts the removed transport back into
asoc->peer.last_data_from. Once the packet is done that reference goes
away and the transport is freed by RCU, so the next delayed SACK carries
the pointer into the SACK chunk and sctp_outq_select_transport() reads the
freed transport's state.

Drop the chunk in sctp_backlog_rcv(), next to the existing rcvr->dead
check. The peer retransmits it. Guarding the last_data_from assignment is
not enough, sctp_assoc_rm_peer() clears more than that one pointer and
letting the packet run fills them in again. sctp_wait_for_sndbuf() already
uses the dead flag this way on the send side.

Fixes: df132eff4638 ("sctp: clear the transport of some out_chunk_list chunks in sctp_assoc_rm_peer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
 net/sctp/input.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/input.c b/net/sctp/input.c
index 864741fae4187e..83b8361d149251 100644
--- a/net/sctp/input.c
+++ b/net/sctp/input.c
@@ -285,9 +285,10 @@ int sctp_backlog_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 	/* If the rcvr is dead then the association or endpoint
 	 * has been deleted and we can safely drop the chunk
-	 * and refs that we are holding.
+	 * and refs that we are holding.  Same if the transport
+	 * we looked up has been removed in the meantime.
 	 */
-	if (rcvr->dead) {
+	if (rcvr->dead || (t && t->dead)) {
 		sctp_chunk_free(chunk);
 		goto done;
 	}
-- 
2.43.0


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