[PATCH net v2 7/8] net: clear sk_tsq_flags in sk_clone()
From: Hyunwoo Kim <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-24 03:34:47
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lkml, stable
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [sockets], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Kuniyuki Iwashima, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds
A socket returned by accept() can be freed while its fd is still open. A
setsockopt() on that fd then hits a use-after-free.
TCP_TSQ_DEFERRED owns a socket reference. tcp_tsq_handler() sets the bit
and calls sock_hold() when the socket is owned by user, and
tcp_release_cb() clears the bit and calls __sock_put(). sock_copy() gives
the child the bit but not the reference, so the __sock_put() that runs when
accept() locks and unlocks the child has nothing to pair with. The socket
is freed by the next put, which in the log below came from a timer.
A listener can be holding this bit. An established socket becomes a
listener again through connect(AF_UNSPEC) and listen(), and
tcp_clear_xmit_timers() only calls hrtimer_try_to_cancel(), so a pacing
callback that is already running survives. That callback sets the bit while
accept() holds the socket lock, and in the same window the child is created
in the TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV branch of tcp_v4_rcv(), which does not take the
listener lock.
All seven bits in sk_tsq_flags describe work pending on the parent, and
four of them own a reference. They are set in four different places, so
clear the whole word in sk_clone().
In short:
socket(AF_INET) -> setsockopt(SO_MAX_PACING_RATE, 100000)
-> setsockopt(TCP_MAXSEG, 1200) -> bind -> connect(peer)
send(64KB) // arms the pacing timer, sock_hold()
connect(AF_UNSPEC) // stop being connected
listen() // become a listener again
setsockopt(TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT)
// another socket connects, and with TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT there is no
// child yet
accept() // the child is created when one byte
// arrives. while accept() holds the
// lock the pacing callback sets the
// bit, and the child is cloned by
// the receive path, which does not
// take the listener lock
// a timer on the child does the last put and the socket is freed
setsockopt(accepted, TCP_NODELAY) // use-after-free
KASAN log:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sock_common_setsockopt+0x44/0x80
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800e2ab668 by task repro/94
...
Call Trace:
sock_common_setsockopt+0x44/0x80
do_sock_setsockopt+0x15e/0x2b0
__sys_setsockopt+0x9e/0xe0
__x64_sys_setsockopt+0x64/0x80
...
Allocated by task 95:
sk_prot_alloc+0x45/0x170
sk_clone+0x49/0x960
inet_csk_clone_lock+0x29/0x2c0
tcp_create_openreq_child+0x2a/0xf20
tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0xd3/0x7e0
tcp_check_req+0x374/0xff0
tcp_v4_rcv+0xc2d/0x2040
...
Freed by task 0:
slab_free_after_rcu_debug+0xc5/0x200
rcu_core+0x4de/0xd30
...
Last potentially related work creation:
kmem_cache_free+0x11d/0x5f0
__sk_destruct+0x29a/0x3d0
call_timer_fn+0x12f/0x3f0
__run_timers+0x4a4/0x5e0
...
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800e2ab640
which belongs to the cache TCP of size 3200
Fixes: 73a6bab5aa2a ("tcp: switch pacing timer to softirq based hrtimer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <redacted>
---
net/core/sock.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 098e58b40f304b..06fbb19824e267 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c@@ -2533,6 +2533,7 @@ struct sock *sk_clone(const struct sock *sk, const gfp_t priority, newsk->sk_reserved_mem = 0; DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(newsk->sk_drop_counters); sk_drops_reset(newsk); + newsk->sk_tsq_flags = 0; newsk->sk_send_head = NULL; newsk->sk_userlocks = sk->sk_userlocks & ~SOCK_BINDPORT_LOCK; atomic_set(&newsk->sk_zckey, 0);
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