[PATCH net v3] strparser: make sure __strp_recv isn't running before tearing down the parser
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From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Date: 2026-10-05 13:50:10
Also in:
stable
Subsystem:
documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Landed in mainline as 0984ebc63179 on 2026-10-07.
The comment above strp_done() claims that if strp is stopped,
strp_recv will no longer be called. That's only true if the caller has
a mechanism (eg locking) to guarantee that strp_recv() calls that
started before strp_stop() have completed by the time we call
strp_done().
This adds a dummy lock_sock/release_sock pair to guarantee that any
in-flight strp_recv() (which runs under either bh_lock_sock or
lock_sock, depending if it's called from ->sk_data_ready or strp_work)
has completed.
Only espintcp can be affected by this race condition, but this patch
makes sure no future user of strp can have the bug.
This could crash on strp->sk ("general mode" of strp), but this mode
has been here for 9 years and has never been used. It'll be gone soon,
no point worrying about it.
Switch the stopped/paused/etc bits to u8's to avoid races between
strp_stop() and strp_pause/unpause().
A reproducer has been published and turns the possible UAF into an
exploit [1].
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <redacted>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aZLn2Faeg1FB7XOf@v4bel/ (local)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aZgpkyTDU3aXe_V0@v4bel/ (local)
Link: https://github.com/m0x41nos/RustyTux [1]
Fixes: e27cca96cd68 ("xfrm: add espintcp (RFC 8229)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
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v3: try to make sashiko shut up. drop reviewed-by tag due to code change.
v2: no code change, just add Cc: stable and Reviewed-by: tags
f06217a9b95b7027286c7df21336e67e334c3e6e.1790674872.git.sd@queasysnail.net
v1: 4c80ea646f95abbd5beca2c081d129fe7d61a0aa.1790344112.git.sd@queasysnail.net
Documentation/networking/strparser.rst | 2 +-
include/net/strparser.h | 10 +++++-----
net/strparser/strparser.c | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/strparser.rst b/Documentation/networking/strparser.rst
index 372106b61e65..d0804c88ad0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/strparser.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/strparser.rst@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Functions strp_done is called to release any resources held by the stream parser instance. This must be called after the stream processor - has been stopped. + has been stopped. The socket lock must not be held. ::
diff --git a/include/net/strparser.h b/include/net/strparser.h
index 0ed73e364faa..881b7ae34498 100644
--- a/include/net/strparser.h
+++ b/include/net/strparser.h@@ -91,11 +91,11 @@ static inline struct strp_msg *strp_msg(struct sk_buff *skb) struct strparser { struct sock *sk; - u32 stopped : 1; - u32 paused : 1; - u32 aborted : 1; - u32 interrupted : 1; - u32 unrecov_intr : 1; + u8 stopped; + u8 paused; + u8 aborted; + u8 interrupted; + u8 unrecov_intr; struct sk_buff **skb_nextp; struct sk_buff *skb_head;
diff --git a/net/strparser/strparser.c b/net/strparser/strparser.c
index a23f4b4dfc67..d5b17d099a0e 100644
--- a/net/strparser/strparser.c
+++ b/net/strparser/strparser.c@@ -505,12 +505,16 @@ void strp_unpause(struct strparser *strp) EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(strp_unpause); /* strp must already be stopped so that strp_recv will no longer be called. - * Note that strp_done is not called with the lower socket held. + * Note that strp_done must not be called with the lower socket held. */ void strp_done(struct strparser *strp) { WARN_ON(!strp->stopped); + lock_sock(strp->sk); + /* sync with pending strp_recv */ + release_sock(strp->sk); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&strp->msg_timer_work); cancel_work_sync(&strp->work);
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