FAILED: patch "[PATCH] rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

gregkh
2026-05-01T12:01:08Z

The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 1f2740150f904bfa60e4bad74d65add3ccb5e7f8
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026050105-bless-arrogant-1e69@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 1f2740150f904bfa60e4bad74d65add3ccb5e7f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:14:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure

If skb_unshare() fails to unshare a packet due to allocation failure in
rxrpc_input_packet(), the skb pointer in the parent (rxrpc_io_thread())
will be NULL'd out. This will likely cause the call to
trace_rxrpc_rx_done() to oops.

Fix this by moving the unsharing down to where rxrpc_input_call_event()
calls rxrpc_input_call_packet(). There are a number of places prior to
that where we ignore DATA packets for a variety of reasons (such as the
call already being complete) for which an unshare is then avoided.

And with that, rxrpc_input_packet() doesn't need to take a pointer to the
pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer.

Fixes: 2d1faf7a0ca3 ("rxrpc: Simplify skbuff accounting in receive path")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-4-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h b/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h
index 5820d7e41ea0..13b9d017f8e1 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h
@@ -162,8 +162,6 @@
E_(rxrpc_call_poke_timer_now, "Timer-now")

#define rxrpc_skb_traces \
- EM(rxrpc_skb_eaten_by_unshare, "ETN unshare ") \
- EM(rxrpc_skb_eaten_by_unshare_nomem, "ETN unshar-nm") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_get_call_rx, "GET call-rx ") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_get_conn_secured, "GET conn-secd") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_get_conn_work, "GET conn-work") \
@@ -190,6 +188,7 @@
EM(rxrpc_skb_put_purge, "PUT purge ") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_put_purge_oob, "PUT purge-oob") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_put_response, "PUT response ") \
+ EM(rxrpc_skb_put_response_copy, "PUT resp-cpy ") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_put_rotate, "PUT rotate ") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_put_unknown, "PUT unknown ") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_see_conn_work, "SEE conn-work") \
@@ -198,6 +197,7 @@
EM(rxrpc_skb_see_recvmsg_oob, "SEE recvm-oob") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_see_reject, "SEE reject ") \
EM(rxrpc_skb_see_rotate, "SEE rotate ") \
+ EM(rxrpc_skb_see_unshare_nomem, "SEE unshar-nm") \
E_(rxrpc_skb_see_version, "SEE version ")

#define rxrpc_local_traces \
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
index 96ecb83c9071..27c2aa2dd023 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
+++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
@@ -1486,7 +1486,6 @@ int rxrpc_server_keyring(struct rxrpc_sock *, sockptr_t, int);
void rxrpc_kernel_data_consumed(struct rxrpc_call *, struct sk_buff *);
void rxrpc_new_skb(struct sk_buff *, enum rxrpc_skb_trace);
void rxrpc_see_skb(struct sk_buff *, enum rxrpc_skb_trace);
-void rxrpc_eaten_skb(struct sk_buff *, enum rxrpc_skb_trace);
void rxrpc_get_skb(struct sk_buff *, enum rxrpc_skb_trace);
void rxrpc_free_skb(struct sk_buff *, enum rxrpc_skb_trace);
void rxrpc_purge_queue(struct sk_buff_head *);
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/call_event.c b/net/rxrpc/call_event.c
index fec59d9338b9..cc8f9dfa44e8 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/call_event.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/call_event.c
@@ -332,7 +332,24 @@ bool rxrpc_input_call_event(struct rxrpc_call *call)

saw_ack |= sp->hdr.type == RXRPC_PACKET_TYPE_ACK;

- rxrpc_input_call_packet(call, skb);
+ if (sp->hdr.securityIndex != 0 &&
+ skb_cloned(skb)) {
+ /* Unshare the packet so that it can be
+ * modified by in-place decryption.
+ */
+ struct sk_buff *nskb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+
+ if (nskb) {
+ rxrpc_new_skb(nskb, rxrpc_skb_new_unshared);
+ rxrpc_input_call_packet(call, nskb);
+ rxrpc_free_skb(nskb, rxrpc_skb_put_call_rx);
+ } else {
+ /* OOM - Drop the packet. */
+ rxrpc_see_skb(skb, rxrpc_skb_see_unshare_nomem);
+ }
+ } else {
+ rxrpc_input_call_packet(call, skb);
+ }
rxrpc_free_skb(skb, rxrpc_skb_put_call_rx);
did_receive = true;
}
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/io_thread.c b/net/rxrpc/io_thread.c
index 697956931925..dc5184a2fa9d 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/io_thread.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/io_thread.c
@@ -192,13 +192,12 @@ static bool rxrpc_extract_abort(struct sk_buff *skb)
/*
* Process packets received on the local endpoint
*/
-static bool rxrpc_input_packet(struct rxrpc_local *local, struct sk_buff **_skb)
+static bool rxrpc_input_packet(struct rxrpc_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct rxrpc_connection *conn;
struct sockaddr_rxrpc peer_srx;
struct rxrpc_skb_priv *sp;
struct rxrpc_peer *peer = NULL;
- struct sk_buff *skb = *_skb;
bool ret = false;

skb_pull(skb, sizeof(struct udphdr));
@@ -244,25 +243,6 @@ static bool rxrpc_input_packet(struct rxrpc_local *local, struct sk_buff **_skb)
return rxrpc_bad_message(skb, rxrpc_badmsg_zero_call);
if (sp->hdr.seq == 0)
return rxrpc_bad_message(skb, rxrpc_badmsg_zero_seq);
-
- /* Unshare the packet so that it can be modified for in-place
- * decryption.
- */
- if (sp->hdr.securityIndex != 0) {
- skb = skb_unshare(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!skb) {
- rxrpc_eaten_skb(*_skb, rxrpc_skb_eaten_by_unshare_nomem);
- *_skb = NULL;
- return just_discard;
- }
-
- if (skb != *_skb) {
- rxrpc_eaten_skb(*_skb, rxrpc_skb_eaten_by_unshare);
- *_skb = skb;
- rxrpc_new_skb(skb, rxrpc_skb_new_unshared);
- sp = rxrpc_skb(skb);
- }
- }
break;

case RXRPC_PACKET_TYPE_CHALLENGE:
@@ -494,7 +474,7 @@ int rxrpc_io_thread(void *data)
switch (skb->mark) {
case RXRPC_SKB_MARK_PACKET:
skb->priority = 0;
- if (!rxrpc_input_packet(local, &skb))
+ if (!rxrpc_input_packet(local, skb))
rxrpc_reject_packet(local, skb);
trace_rxrpc_rx_done(skb->mark, skb->priority);
rxrpc_free_skb(skb, rxrpc_skb_put_input);
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/skbuff.c b/net/rxrpc/skbuff.c
index 3bcd6ee80396..e2169d1a14b5 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/skbuff.c
@@ -46,15 +46,6 @@ void rxrpc_get_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, enum rxrpc_skb_trace why)
skb_get(skb);
}

-/*
- * Note the dropping of a ref on a socket buffer by the core.
- */
-void rxrpc_eaten_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, enum rxrpc_skb_trace why)
-{
- int n = atomic_inc_return(&rxrpc_n_rx_skbs);
- trace_rxrpc_skb(skb, 0, n, why);
-}
-
/*
* Note the destruction of a socket buffer.
*/