From: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, imv4bel@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH net] tcp: fix NULL pointer dereference when restarting a Fast Open listener
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 20:08:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avGpsTb2hsGIjSRk@v4bel> (raw)
When a valid RST is received for a Fast Open child accepted before the
three-way handshake completes, reqsk_fastopen_remove() adds the
request_sock to the listener's RST list if the listener is in TCP_LISTEN.
An application can call shutdown(SHUT_RD) and then listen() on the same
listener socket. inet_csk_listen_stop() checks rskq_rst_head without
holding fastopenq.lock. If rskq_rst_head is NULL, it does not acquire the
lock and therefore does not synchronize with an insertion by
reqsk_fastopen_remove() after that function has passed the TCP_LISTEN
check.
The subsequent reqsk_queue_alloc() also initializes rskq_rst_head,
rskq_rst_tail, and qlen in that order without holding the lock. If a
request_sock is added between the initialization of rskq_rst_head and
rskq_rst_tail, rskq_rst_head points to the request_sock while
rskq_rst_tail is NULL.
When a valid RST is later received for another accepted Fast Open child,
rskq_rst_head is not NULL, so reqsk_fastopen_remove() attempts to write
the request_sock pointer to rskq_rst_tail->dl_next while rskq_rst_tail is
NULL. KASAN reports:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in reqsk_fastopen_remove+0x147/0x210
Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000088 by task swapper/3/0
...
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
...
reqsk_fastopen_remove+0x147/0x210
tcp_check_req+0xa70/0x1060
...
tcp_rcv_state_process+0x1cb/0x2ae0
...
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x1fe/0x740
tcp_v4_rcv+0x1744/0x2070
...
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x5c/0x280
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x171/0x330
ip_local_deliver+0x107/0x370
...
</IRQ>
To widen the race window, the issue was reproduced after adding
mdelay(3000) immediately after reqsk_fastopen_remove() checks that the
listener is in TCP_LISTEN and immediately after reqsk_queue_alloc() sets
rskq_rst_head to NULL.
Make inet_csk_listen_stop() acquire fastopenq.lock regardless of the
value of rskq_rst_head and detach the list while holding the lock. If
reqsk_fastopen_remove() has already passed the TCP_LISTEN check,
inet_csk_listen_stop() waits until the list insertion completes.
Also initialize rskq_rst_head, rskq_rst_tail, and qlen under the same
lock in reqsk_queue_alloc(). Drop the references to the detached
request_sock objects after releasing the lock.
Fixes: 0536fcc039a8 ("tcp: prepare fastopen code for upcoming listener changes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index e56beec438773..5590fc7efb88d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -1333,9 +1333,11 @@ static int inet_ulp_can_listen(const struct sock *sk)
static void reqsk_queue_alloc(struct request_sock_queue *queue)
{
+ spin_lock_bh(&queue->fastopenq.lock);
queue->fastopenq.rskq_rst_head = NULL;
queue->fastopenq.rskq_rst_tail = NULL;
queue->fastopenq.qlen = 0;
+ spin_unlock_bh(&queue->fastopenq.lock);
queue->rskq_accept_head = NULL;
}
@@ -1533,17 +1535,15 @@ void inet_csk_listen_stop(struct sock *sk)
if (!has_current_bpf_ctx())
cond_resched();
}
- if (queue->fastopenq.rskq_rst_head) {
- /* Free all the reqs queued in rskq_rst_head. */
- spin_lock_bh(&queue->fastopenq.lock);
- req = queue->fastopenq.rskq_rst_head;
- queue->fastopenq.rskq_rst_head = NULL;
- spin_unlock_bh(&queue->fastopenq.lock);
- while (req != NULL) {
- next = req->dl_next;
- reqsk_put(req);
- req = next;
- }
+ /* Free all the reqs queued in rskq_rst_head. */
+ spin_lock_bh(&queue->fastopenq.lock);
+ req = queue->fastopenq.rskq_rst_head;
+ queue->fastopenq.rskq_rst_head = NULL;
+ spin_unlock_bh(&queue->fastopenq.lock);
+ while (req != NULL) {
+ next = req->dl_next;
+ reqsk_put(req);
+ req = next;
}
WARN_ON_ONCE(sk->sk_ack_backlog);
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-09 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-09 11:08 Hyunwoo Kim [this message]
2026-11-09 12:55 ` [PATCH net] tcp: fix NULL pointer dereference when restarting a Fast Open listener Eric Dumazet
2026-11-09 13:57 ` Hyunwoo Kim
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