On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 10:00:11AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
ireq->ipv6_opt is only set by calipso_req_setattr(), when a CALIPSO
NetLabel mapping is configured.
Request socket migration (net.ipv4.tcp_migrate_req=1, or a
BPF_SK_REUSEPORT_SELECT_OR_MIGRATE program) clones the request
socket with inet_reqsk_clone(), so that the old request socket and
its clone share the same ipv6_opt, then reqsk_migrate_reset() clears
the pointer in the old one.
Another cpu holding a reference on the old request socket can still
be using these options, sending a SYNACK from tcp_v6_send_synack()
or creating a child in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(), when the clone
is freed. tcp_v6_reqsk_destructor() frees ipv6_opt with a plain
kfree(), leading to a use-after-free.
Both readers already run under RCU, like their IPv4 counterparts.
Use kfree_rcu() in tcp_v6_reqsk_destructor(), as commit e3f33b0a1d89
("ipv4: free inet_opt and ireq_opt after an RCU grace period") did
for ireq_opt.
Fixes: c905dee62232 ("tcp: Migrate TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV requests at retransmitting SYN+ACKs.")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/179369559062.488856.15441115725436277776@kernel.org/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
Found by Sashiko while reviewing another TCP fix :/
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index d406cd3c8ceabfdbb66f3e1b4f9e9a74754e8d0b..b1dec5d86d633db67a754c70ee1c63290a9acb5a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ static int tcp_v6_send_synack(const struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,
static void tcp_v6_reqsk_destructor(struct request_sock *req)
{
- kfree(inet_rsk(req)->ipv6_opt);
+ kfree_rcu(inet_rsk(req)->ipv6_opt, rcu);
consume_skb(inet_rsk(req)->pktopts);
}
--
2.53.0
Cc Leonardo for the fixup.
Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <redacted>