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[PATCH net] bpf: tcp: fix double sock release on batch realloc

From: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-13 23:32:33
Also in: bpf, lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [tcp], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Neal Cardwell, Linus Torvalds

bpf_iter_tcp_batch() releases the current batch via
bpf_iter_tcp_put_batch(), which drops the socket refs and rewrites
each slot with the socket cookie, then grows the batch. cur_sk/end_sk
are kept for bpf_iter_tcp_resume(), but on realloc failure the function
returns ERR_PTR() before resume runs, leaving cur_sk < end_sk over
slots that now hold cookies rather than sock pointers.
bpf_iter_tcp_seq_stop() then calls bpf_iter_tcp_put_batch() again and
dereferences a cookie as a struct sock.

Empty the batch on the failure path so stop() does not release it
again. The sockets were already freed by the first
bpf_iter_tcp_put_batch(), so nothing leaks, and a later read() rescans
the bucket from the start instead of skipping it. The sibling
GFP_NOWAIT failure path still holds real socket references and is left
for stop() to release.

  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __sock_gen_cookie
  Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000059 by task exploit
   ...
   __sock_gen_cookie (net/core/sock_diag.c:28)
   bpf_iter_tcp_put_batch (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2918)
   bpf_iter_tcp_seq_stop (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:3270)
   bpf_seq_read (kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c:205)
   vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:572)
   ksys_read (fs/read_write.c:716)
   do_syscall_64
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Fixes: cdec67a489d4 ("bpf: tcp: Make sure iter->batch always contains a full bucket snapshot")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <redacted>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 209ef7522508..dd3ed62704f9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -3141,8 +3141,11 @@ static struct sock *bpf_iter_tcp_batch(struct seq_file *seq)
 	bpf_iter_tcp_put_batch(iter);
 	err = bpf_iter_tcp_realloc_batch(iter, expected * 3 / 2,
 					 GFP_USER);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		iter->cur_sk = 0;
+		iter->end_sk = 0;
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
+	}
 
 	sk = bpf_iter_tcp_resume(seq);
 	if (!sk)
-- 
2.43.0
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