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[PATCH] bpf, sockmap: Fix cork use-after-free in tcp_bpf_sendmsg()

From: Chengfeng Ye <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-19 16:16:58
Also in: bpf, lkml, stable
Subsystem: bpf [l7 framework] (sockmap), networking [general], networking [tcp], the rest · Maintainers: John Fastabend, Jakub Sitnicki, Jiayuan Chen, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Neal Cardwell, Linus Torvalds

tcp_bpf_sendmsg() keeps msg_tx across sk_stream_wait_memory(), which
drops and reacquires the socket lock.  Its error path tries to decide
whether msg_tx names the local temporary message by comparing it with
the current value of psock->cork.

This comparison is unsafe when two threads send on the same socket:

  Thread A                         Thread B
  msg_tx = psock->cork
  sk_msg_alloc() fails
  sk_stream_wait_memory()
    releases the socket lock      acquires the socket lock
                                  completes the cork
                                  psock->cork = NULL
                                  frees the cork
    reacquires the socket lock
  msg_tx != psock->cork
  sk_msg_free(msg_tx)

The stale cork is therefore mistaken for the local temporary message
and freed again.  KASAN reported:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_msg_free+0x49/0x50
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810c908800 by task poc/90
  Call Trace:
   sk_msg_free+0x49/0x50
   tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x14f5/0x1cc0
   __sys_sendto+0x32c/0x3a0
   __x64_sys_sendto+0xdb/0x1b0
  Allocated by task 89:
   __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
   tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x16b3/0x1cc0
  Freed by task 91:
   __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
   kfree+0x131/0x3c0
   tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0xec3/0x1cc0

msg_tx can only name the stack-local tmp or the shared cork.  Test for
tmp directly so a changed psock->cork cannot turn a shared message into
an apparent local one.

Fixes: 604326b41a6f ("bpf, sockmap: convert to generic sk_msg interface")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <redacted>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c
index 8e905b50dead..a30475afb6f8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ static int tcp_bpf_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
 wait_for_memory:
 		err = sk_stream_wait_memory(sk, &timeo);
 		if (err) {
-			if (msg_tx && msg_tx != psock->cork)
+			if (msg_tx == &tmp)
 				sk_msg_free(sk, msg_tx);
 			goto out_err;
 		}
-- 
2.43.0
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