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[PATCH net] sctp: fix addip_serial increment on ASCONF_ACK allocation failure

From: luoqing <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-23 07:19:06
Also in: linux-sctp
Subsystem: networking [general], sctp protocol, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long, Linus Torvalds

From: Qing Luo <redacted>

In sctp_process_asconf(), when sctp_make_asconf_ack() fails to allocate
the ASCONF_ACK chunk due to memory pressure, the code jumps to the
done label where asoc->peer.addip_serial is unconditionally incremented.

This leaves the peer's ASCONF (serial N) unacknowledged while the local
endpoint now expects serial N+1. When the peer retransmits serial N, it
falls into the serial < addip_serial + 1 branch ,
which attempts to look up a cached ACK for serial N. No cached ACK
exists since the allocation failed, so the retransmission is silently
discarded. The peer eventually times out and ABORTs the association.

Move the addip_serial increment inside the if (asconf_ack) block so that
the serial number is only advanced when the ASCONF_ACK is successfully
created and cached. This way, on allocation failure, the serial number
is unchanged and the peer's retransmitted ASCONF will be correctly
re-processed.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 (Linux-2.6.12-rc2)
Signed-off-by: Qing Luo <redacted>
---
 net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
index 8adac9e0cd66..87b5d320977b 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
@@ -3321,12 +3321,11 @@ struct sctp_chunk *sctp_process_asconf(struct sctp_association *asoc,
 			goto done;
 	}
 done:
-	asoc->peer.addip_serial++;
-
 	/* If we are sending a new ASCONF_ACK hold a reference to it in assoc
 	 * after freeing the reference to old asconf ack if any.
 	 */
 	if (asconf_ack) {
+		asoc->peer.addip_serial++;
 		sctp_chunk_hold(asconf_ack);
 		list_add_tail(&asconf_ack->transmitted_list,
 			      &asoc->asconf_ack_list);
-- 
2.25.1
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