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From: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
To: marcelo.leitner@gmail.com, lucien.xin@gmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org
Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, imv4bel@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH net v2] sctp: drop a chunk if its transport was removed
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:38:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aoUJHQmxL0LFIMCw@v4bel> (raw)

sctp_rcv() resolves the transport once per packet and leaves it in
chunk->transport. The lookup reference, or the one sctp_add_backlog() takes
if the socket is owned by userspace, keeps it around until the chunk has
been processed.

An authenticated ASCONF DEL-IP can remove it in the meantime.
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. There is a window on both paths: the packet can sit on
the socket backlog, and on the direct path the lookup completes before
bh_lock_sock().

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_inq_push(), next to the existing rcvr->dead check.
Both paths reach it with the association's socket lock held. The peer
retransmits it.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Move the check from sctp_backlog_rcv() into sctp_inq_push(), so that the
direct softirq path and the socket migration branch are covered as well.
- Correct the Fixes tag.
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/an-oGfEatacPTSX-@v4bel/
---
 net/sctp/inqueue.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/inqueue.c b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
index a024c08432471d..5f988b3a8814ff 100644
--- a/net/sctp/inqueue.c
+++ b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
@@ -71,8 +71,11 @@ void sctp_inq_free(struct sctp_inq *queue)
  */
 void sctp_inq_push(struct sctp_inq *q, struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
 {
-	/* Directly call the packet handling routine. */
-	if (chunk->rcvr->dead) {
+	/* Directly call the packet handling routine.  Drop the chunk if the
+	 * receiver or the transport it was looked up on is gone.
+	 */
+	if (chunk->rcvr->dead ||
+	    (chunk->transport && chunk->transport->dead)) {
 		sctp_chunk_free(chunk);
 		return;
 	}
-- 
2.43.0


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