[PATCH net] tcp: avoid double destroy in tcp_abort() of an unaccepted child
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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-10-28 16:08:52
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [tcp], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Neal Cardwell, Linus Torvalds
From: Kyle Zeng <redacted>
tcp_abort() checks for TCP_CLOSE while only owning the socket lock,
then grabs the BH lock before calling tcp_done_with_error().
For a child still sitting in a listener accept queue (which can be
reached via SOCK_DESTROY or bpf_sock_destroy()), inet_csk_listen_stop()
can run in this window: it only holds the child BH lock, and calls
inet_child_forget(), which disconnects, orphans and destroys the child.
tcp_abort() then calls tcp_done_with_error() -> tcp_done(), which sees
SOCK_DEAD and calls inet_csk_destroy_sock() a second time, leading to
a double sock_put() and a use-after-free.
Recheck TCP_CLOSE after acquiring the BH lock, unless we just closed
a listener ourselves, in which case tcp_done_with_error() must still
run to report the error.
Note that the WARN_ON(sock_owned_by_user(child)) in
inet_csk_listen_stop() can still trigger in this window.
Fixes: bac76cf89816 ("tcp: fix forever orphan socket caused by tcp_abort")
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <redacted>
[edumazet: recheck TCP_CLOSE under the BH lock instead of moving the test, smaller diff]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 1f56d8c0c5fe947072eb5ce50217b13fd33ff74d..6a9566f179e02c3a2e3c91f4ffa96a85190c861d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c@@ -5128,6 +5128,8 @@ void tcp_done(struct sock *sk) int tcp_abort(struct sock *sk, int err) { int state = inet_sk_state_load(sk); + bool listener = false; + int ret = 0; if (state == TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV) { struct request_sock *req = inet_reqsk(sk);
@@ -5162,21 +5164,31 @@ int tcp_abort(struct sock *sk, int err) if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN) { tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_CLOSE); inet_csk_listen_stop(sk); + listener = true; } /* Don't race with BH socket closes such as inet_csk_listen_stop. */ local_bh_disable(); bh_lock_sock(sk); + /* An unaccepted child might have been closed by + * inet_csk_listen_stop() while we were not holding its BH lock. + */ + if (!listener && sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE) { + ret = -ENOENT; + goto out; + } + if (tcp_need_reset(sk->sk_state)) tcp_send_active_reset(sk, SK_RST_REASON_TCP_STATE); tcp_done_with_error(sk, err); +out: bh_unlock_sock(sk); local_bh_enable(); if (!has_current_bpf_ctx()) release_sock(sk); - return 0; + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_abort);
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