[PATCH net] nfc: llcp: Fix list corruption / refcount desync in nfc_llcp_recv_dm()
From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-16 23:27:13
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lkml, oe-linux-nfc
Subsystem:
networking [general], nfc subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Heidelberg, Linus Torvalds
nfc_llcp_recv_dm() handles DM(NOBOUND)/DM(REJ) for a socket that is still
linked on local->connecting_sockets: it looks the socket up with
nfc_llcp_connecting_sock_get(), sets sk->sk_state = LLCP_CLOSED and
returns, without taking the socket lock and without unlinking the socket
from the connecting_sockets list.
llcp_sock_release() selects the list to unlink from by sk_state: a socket
in LLCP_CONNECTING is unlinked from connecting_sockets, otherwise from the
sockets list. Because recv_dm left the socket physically on
connecting_sockets but in the LLCP_CLOSED state, release() takes the else
branch and calls nfc_llcp_sock_unlink(&local->sockets, sk). That runs
sk_del_node_init() while holding sockets.lock, i.e. it removes the socket
from the connecting_sockets hlist under the wrong lock. A concurrent
connect() linking another socket onto connecting_sockets under
connecting_sockets.lock then mutates the same hlist unserialized, which
corrupts the list and desyncs the sk_add_node()/sk_del_node_init()
sock_hold()/__sock_put() pairing. An unprivileged local process holding
LLCP sockets, with the DM supplied by the remote peer over an established
LLCP link, can drive this to leak kernel sockets without bound (the
mis-decrement goes through the non-freeing __sock_put() path, so the
object is never released), leading to memory exhaustion / DoS.
This is the same class of bug that was fixed in the sibling handler
nfc_llcp_recv_cc() by commit b493ea2765cc ("nfc: llcp: Fix use-after-free
race in nfc_llcp_recv_cc()"); recv_dm did not receive the equivalent fix.
Fix it the same way: take lock_sock(), re-check that the socket is still
hashed (release() may have won the race), and for the NOBOUND/REJ case
unlink it from connecting_sockets before moving it to LLCP_CLOSED. The
unlink drops the connecting_sockets membership reference via
sk_del_node_init(), leaving the socket unhashed, so the later
nfc_llcp_sock_unlink() in llcp_sock_release() becomes a no-op and no
double put occurs.
Fixes: a69f32af86e3 ("NFC: Socket linked list")
Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <redacted>
---
net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
index dc65c719f35f..d8dbb1bb857b 100644
--- a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
+++ b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c@@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_dm(struct nfc_llcp_local *local, struct nfc_llcp_sock *llcp_sock; struct sock *sk; u8 dsap, ssap, reason; + bool connecting = false; dsap = nfc_llcp_dsap(skb); ssap = nfc_llcp_ssap(skb);
@@ -1260,6 +1261,7 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_dm(struct nfc_llcp_local *local, case LLCP_DM_NOBOUND: case LLCP_DM_REJ: llcp_sock = nfc_llcp_connecting_sock_get(local, dsap); + connecting = true; break; default:
@@ -1274,10 +1276,33 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_dm(struct nfc_llcp_local *local, sk = &llcp_sock->sk; + lock_sock(sk); + + /* Check if socket was destroyed whilst waiting for the lock */ + if (!sk_hashed(sk)) { + release_sock(sk); + nfc_llcp_sock_put(llcp_sock); + return; + } + + /* + * For DM(NOBOUND)/DM(REJ) the socket is still linked on the + * connecting_sockets list. Unlink it here, under the socket lock, + * before moving it to LLCP_CLOSED: llcp_sock_release() selects the + * list to unlink from by sk_state, so leaving a connecting socket + * in the CLOSED state would make it unlink from the wrong list and + * corrupt the connecting_sockets list / desync the socket refcount. + * This mirrors nfc_llcp_recv_cc(). + */ + if (connecting) + nfc_llcp_sock_unlink(&local->connecting_sockets, sk); + sk->sk_err = ENXIO; sk->sk_state = LLCP_CLOSED; sk->sk_state_change(sk); + release_sock(sk); + nfc_llcp_sock_put(llcp_sock); }
base-commit: 3f1f755366687d051174739fb99f7d560202f60b -- 2.43.0