[PATCH 5.15 253/570] net/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13T16:28:58Z

From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>

[ Upstream commit e1f0a18c9564cdb16523c802e2c6fe5874e3d944 ]

syzkaller reported a bug [1], and the reproducer is available at [2].

ROSE sockets use four sk->sk_state values: TCP_CLOSE, TCP_LISTEN,
TCP_SYN_SENT, and TCP_ESTABLISHED. rose_connect() already rejects
calls for TCP_ESTABLISHED (-EISCONN) and TCP_CLOSE with SS_CONNECTING
(-ECONNREFUSED), but lacks a check for TCP_SYN_SENT.

When rose_connect() is called a second time while the first connection
attempt is still in progress (TCP_SYN_SENT), it overwrites
rose->neighbour via rose_get_neigh(). If that returns NULL, the socket
is left with rose->state == ROSE_STATE_1 but rose->neighbour == NULL.
When the socket is subsequently closed, rose_release() sees
ROSE_STATE_1 and calls rose_write_internal() ->
rose_transmit_link(skb, NULL), causing a NULL pointer dereference.

Per connect(2), a second connect() while a connection is already in
progress should return -EALREADY. Add this missing check for
TCP_SYN_SENT to complete the state validation in rose_connect().

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d00f90e0af54102fb271
[2] https://gist.github.com/mrpre/9e6779e0d13e2c66779b1653fef80516

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: syzbot+d00f90e0af54102fb271@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69694d6f.050a0220.58bed.0027.GAE@google.com/T/
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311070611.76913-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/rose/af_rose.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/rose/af_rose.c b/net/rose/af_rose.c
index 04173c85d92b5..0130c13f73552 100644
--- a/net/rose/af_rose.c
+++ b/net/rose/af_rose.c
@@ -808,6 +808,11 @@ static int rose_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_le
goto out_release;
}

+ if (sk->sk_state == TCP_SYN_SENT) {
+ err = -EALREADY;
+ goto out_release;
+ }
+
sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
sock->state = SS_UNCONNECTED;

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2.51.0