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 v2] tcp: fix request_sock use-after-free during Fast Open accept()
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:24:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avQKA_YTAThtbsYU@v4bel> (raw)
Commit e3d95ad7da4f ("inet: avoid fastopen lock for regular accept()")
made inet_csk_accept() check tfo_listener before taking fastopenq.lock
to avoid taking the lock for connections that did not use Fast Open.
reqsk_fastopen_remove() clears tfo_listener while holding fastopenq.lock,
then reads req->sk. If inet_csk_accept() concurrently observes
tfo_listener after it has been cleared, it skips fastopenq.lock and
drops the last reference to the request_sock. This can free the
request_sock while reqsk_fastopen_remove() is still using it.
If the freed memory is reused for a new request_sock with req->sk ==
NULL, the reset path in reqsk_fastopen_remove() can append the new
request_sock to the original listener's list of requests that caused an
RST. After the new request_sock is freed, the next append writes through
the stale rskq_rst_tail into freed memory.
KASAN reported the following use-after-free when writing
fastopenq->rskq_rst_tail->dl_next = req:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in reqsk_fastopen_remove+0x142/0x210
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888108230688 by task swapper/5/0
...
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
...
reqsk_fastopen_remove+0x142/0x210
tcp_check_req+0x96f/0xdd0
...
tcp_rcv_state_process+0x19c/0x26b0
...
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x16e/0x490
tcp_v4_rcv+0x14a0/0x1af0
...
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x39/0x1e0
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x124/0x1e0
ip_local_deliver+0xfb/0x1e0
...
</IRQ>
To widen the race windows, mdelay(5) was added after newsk = req->sk,
mdelay(20) after the if (req) reqsk_put(req) block, and mdelay(100)
after tcp_rsk(req)->tfo_listener = false. The KASAN report above was
reproduced with this kernel.
For the lockless check, use tcp_sk(newsk)->syn_fastopen_child instead of
tfo_listener, which reqsk_fastopen_remove() clears.
syn_fastopen_child is a field of the Fast Open child TCP socket
referenced by newsk, not of the request_sock. It is set before the child
socket is added to the accept queue. The paths that call
reqsk_fastopen_remove() in response to a remote ACK or RST do not clear
this field.
inet_csk_accept() uses this field to take fastopenq.lock only for Fast
Open child sockets and rechecks tfo_listener while holding the lock.
Connections that did not use Fast Open continue to avoid the lock.
Fixes: e3d95ad7da4f ("inet: avoid fastopen lock for regular accept()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Remove data_race(), !!, and the comment from the
syn_fastopen_child check. (Kuniyuki)
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/avFoNgJENLYu4t7X@v4bel/
---
net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index e56beec4387732..e364844f930bb1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ struct sock *inet_csk_accept(struct sock *sk, struct proto_accept_arg *arg)
newsk = req->sk;
if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP &&
- tcp_rsk(req)->tfo_listener) {
+ tcp_sk(newsk)->syn_fastopen_child) {
spin_lock_bh(&queue->fastopenq.lock);
if (tcp_rsk(req)->tfo_listener) {
/* We are still waiting for the final ACK from 3WHS
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-11 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-11 6:24 Hyunwoo Kim [this message]
2026-11-11 6:26 ` [PATCH net v2] tcp: fix request_sock use-after-free during Fast Open accept() netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-11-11 6:30 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
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