From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>,
"Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] mptcp: pm: kernel: use RCU to free endpoint listeners
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 16:45:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261112214412.3870882-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261109201949-failed-6.1-49b09ae0bf57@kernel.org>
From: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
[ Upstream commit 49b09ae0bf57b4230187d4cdd0a370558e44a6e8 ]
mptcp_pm_nl_create_listen_socket() starts the TCP listener directly
instead of going through mptcp_listen(). It consequently misses setting
SOCK_RCU_FREE on the parent MPTCP socket.
tcp_child_process() can invoke the listener's subflow_data_ready()
callback without holding the MPTCP parent lock or a reference to the
parent. An authenticated MP_JOIN racing with endpoint teardown can
therefore access the parent after its last reference has been dropped.
The ADD_ADDR error path can also close an already published listener.
Set SOCK_RCU_FREE before __inet_listen_sk() publishes the TCP listener,
matching mptcp_listen(). This protects the parent on every subsequent
close path, including a failed endpoint addition.
Fixes: 1729cf186d8a ("mptcp: create the listening socket for new port")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261030042255.74216-1-kylebot@openai.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
[ sashal: adjusted listener-creation context for kernel_listen() instead of __inet_listen_sk() ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c b/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
index 05fb4d43187ad..a618ebbc42b09 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
@@ -1261,6 +1261,7 @@ static int mptcp_pm_nl_create_listen_socket(struct sock *sk,
}
inet_sk_state_store(newsk, TCP_LISTEN);
+ sock_set_flag(newsk, SOCK_RCU_FREE);
WRITE_ONCE(mptcp_subflow_ctx(ssock->sk)->pm_listener, true);
err = kernel_listen(ssock, backlog);
if (err) {
--
2.53.0
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2026-11-10 1:19 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mptcp: pm: kernel: use RCU to free endpoint listeners" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree Sasha Levin
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