kernel/linux.git/net/core/sock.c, branch v6.12.98

tcp: restrict SO_ATTACH_FILTER to priv users

2026-06-19T11:42:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5d39580f68e6ddeedd15e587282207489dfb3da2 ] This patch restricts the use of SO_ATTACH_FILTER (cBPF) on TCP sockets to users with CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. This blocks potential side-channel attack where an unprivileged application attaches a filter to leak TCP sequence/acknowledgment numbers. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Tamir Shahar Reported-by: Amit Klein Cc: Willem de Bruijn Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Cc: Song Liu Cc: Yonghong Song Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Fastabend Cc: Stanislav Fomichev Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: Annotate sk->sk_write_space() for UDP SOCKMAP.

2026-06-19T11:42:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit b748765019fe9e9234660327090fc1a9665cdbdd ] UDP TX skb->destructor() is sock_wfree(), and UDP holds lock_sock() only for UDP_CORK / MSG_MORE sendmsg(). Otherwise, sk->sk_write_space() may be read locklessly while SOCKMAP rewrites sk->sk_write_space(). Let's use WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() for sk->sk_write_space(). Note that the write side is annotated by commit 2ef2b20cf4e0 ("net: annotate data-races around sk->sk_{data_ready,write_space}"). Fixes: 7b98cd42b049 ("bpf: sockmap: Add UDP support") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529193941.3897256-1-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: sock: fix hardened usercopy panic in sock_recv_errqueue

2026-01-17T15:31:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2a71a1a8d0ed718b1c7a9ac61f07e5755c47ae20 ] skbuff_fclone_cache was created without defining a usercopy region, [1] unlike skbuff_head_cache which properly whitelists the cb[] field. [2] This causes a usercopy BUG() when CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is enabled and the kernel attempts to copy sk_buff.cb data to userspace via sock_recv_errqueue() -> put_cmsg(). The crash occurs when: 1. TCP allocates an skb using alloc_skb_fclone() (from skbuff_fclone_cache) [1] 2. The skb is cloned via skb_clone() using the pre-allocated fclone [3] 3. The cloned skb is queued to sk_error_queue for timestamp reporting 4. Userspace reads the error queue via recvmsg(MSG_ERRQUEUE) 5. sock_recv_errqueue() calls put_cmsg() to copy serr->ee from skb->cb [4] 6. __check_heap_object() fails because skbuff_fclone_cache has no usercopy whitelist [5] When cloned skbs allocated from skbuff_fclone_cache are used in the socket error queue, accessing the sock_exterr_skb structure in skb->cb via put_cmsg() triggers a usercopy hardening violation: [ 5.379589] usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'skbuff_fclone_cache' (offset 296, size 16)! [ 5.382796] kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102! [ 5.383923] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI [ 5.384903] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 138 Comm: poc_put_cmsg Not tainted 6.12.57 #7 [ 5.384903] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 5.384903] RIP: 0010:usercopy_abort+0x6c/0x80 [ 5.384903] Code: 1a 86 51 48 c7 c2 40 15 1a 86 41 52 48 c7 c7 c0 15 1a 86 48 0f 45 d6 48 c7 c6 80 15 1a 86 48 89 c1 49 0f 45 f3 e8 84 27 88 ff <0f> 0b 490 [ 5.384903] RSP: 0018:ffffc900006f77a8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 5.384903] RAX: 000000000000006f RBX: ffff88800f0ad2a8 RCX: 1ffffffff0f72e74 [ 5.384903] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffffff87b973a0 [ 5.384903] RBP: 0000000000000010 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff0f72e74 [ 5.384903] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 79706f6372657375 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 5.384903] R13: ffff88800f0ad2b8 R14: ffffea00003c2b40 R15: ffffea00003c2b00 [ 5.384903] FS: 0000000011bc4380(0000) GS:ffff8880bf100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 5.384903] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 5.384903] CR2: 000056aa3b8e5fe4 CR3: 000000000ea26004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 [ 5.384903] PKRU: 55555554 [ 5.384903] Call Trace: [ 5.384903] [ 5.384903] __check_heap_object+0x9a/0xd0 [ 5.384903] __check_object_size+0x46c/0x690 [ 5.384903] put_cmsg+0x129/0x5e0 [ 5.384903] sock_recv_errqueue+0x22f/0x380 [ 5.384903] tls_sw_recvmsg+0x7ed/0x1960 [ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 5.384903] ? schedule+0x6d/0x270 [ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 5.384903] ? mutex_unlock+0x81/0xd0 [ 5.384903] ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10 [ 5.384903] ? __pfx_tls_sw_recvmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 5.384903] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x8f/0xf0 [ 5.384903] ? _raw_read_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40 [ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 The crash offset 296 corresponds to skb2->cb within skbuff_fclones: - sizeof(struct sk_buff) = 232 - offsetof(struct sk_buff, cb) = 40 - offset of skb2.cb in fclones = 232 + 40 = 272 - crash offset 296 = 272 + 24 (inside sock_exterr_skb.ee) This patch uses a local stack variable as a bounce buffer to avoid the hardened usercopy check failure. [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/ipv4/tcp.c#L885 [2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5104 [3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5566 [4] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5491 [5] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/mm/slub.c#L5719 Fixes: 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0") Reported-by: Xiang Mei Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251223203534.1392218-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps()

2026-01-08T09:15:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit 99a2ace61b211b0be861b07fbaa062fca4b58879 ] Use RCU to protect accesses to dst->dev from sk_setup_caps() and sk_dst_gso_max_size(). Also use dst_dev_rcu() in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(), and ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(). ip4_dst_hoplimit() can use dst_dev_net_rcu(). Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250828195823.3958522-6-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski [Harshit: Backport to 6.12.y, resolve conflict due to missing commit: 22d6c9eebf2e ("net: Unexport shared functions for DCCP.") in 6.12.y] Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: call cond_resched() less often in __release_sock()

2025-11-13T20:34:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit 16c610162d1f1c332209de1c91ffb09b659bb65d ] While stress testing TCP I had unexpected retransmits and sack packets when a single cpu receives data from multiple high-throughput flows. super_netperf 4 -H srv -T,10 -l 3000 & Tcpdump extract: 00:00:00.000007 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26062848:26124288, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460834 ecr 3100749131], length 61440 00:00:00.000006 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26124288:26185728, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460834 ecr 3100749131], length 61440 00:00:00.000005 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [P.], seq 26185728:26243072, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460834 ecr 3100749131], length 57344 00:00:00.000006 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26243072:26304512, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460844 ecr 3100749141], length 61440 00:00:00.000005 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26304512:26365952, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460844 ecr 3100749141], length 61440 00:00:00.000007 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [P.], seq 26365952:26423296, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460844 ecr 3100749141], length 57344 00:00:00.000006 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26423296:26484736, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460853 ecr 3100749150], length 61440 00:00:00.000005 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26484736:26546176, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460853 ecr 3100749150], length 61440 00:00:00.000005 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [P.], seq 26546176:26603520, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460853 ecr 3100749150], length 57344 00:00:00.003932 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [P.], seq 26603520:26619904, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651464844 ecr 3100753141], length 16384 00:00:00.006602 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 24862720:24866816, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651471419 ecr 3100759716], length 4096 00:00:00.013000 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 24862720:24866816, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651484421 ecr 3100772718], length 4096 00:00:00.000416 IP6 srv > clnt: Flags [.], ack 26619904, win 1393, options [nop,nop,TS val 3100773185 ecr 651484421,nop,nop,sack 1 {24862720:24866816}], length 0 After analysis, it appears this is because of the cond_resched() call from __release_sock(). When current thread is yielding, while still holding the TCP socket lock, it might regain the cpu after a very long time. Other peer TLP/RTO is firing (multiple times) and packets are retransmit, while the initial copy is waiting in the socket backlog or receive queue. In this patch, I call cond_resched() only once every 16 packets. Modern TCP stack now spends less time per packet in the backlog, especially because ACK are no longer sent (commit 133c4c0d3717 "tcp: defer regular ACK while processing socket backlog") Before: clnt:/# nstat -n;sleep 10;nstat|egrep "TcpOutSegs|TcpRetransSegs|TCPFastRetrans|TCPTimeouts|Probes|TCPSpuriousRTOs|DSACK" TcpOutSegs 19046186 0.0 TcpRetransSegs 1471 0.0 TcpExtTCPTimeouts 1397 0.0 TcpExtTCPLossProbes 1356 0.0 TcpExtTCPDSACKRecv 1352 0.0 TcpExtTCPSpuriousRTOs 114 0.0 TcpExtTCPDSACKRecvSegs 1352 0.0 After: clnt:/# nstat -n;sleep 10;nstat|egrep "TcpOutSegs|TcpRetransSegs|TCPFastRetrans|TCPTimeouts|Probes|TCPSpuriousRTOs|DSACK" TcpOutSegs 19218936 0.0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250903174811.1930820-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: Call trace_sock_exceed_buf_limit() for memcg failure with SK_MEM_RECV.

2025-11-13T20:34:14+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9d85c565a7b7c78b732393c02bcaa4d5c275fe58 ] Initially, trace_sock_exceed_buf_limit() was invoked when __sk_mem_raise_allocated() failed due to the memcg limit or the global limit. However, commit d6f19938eb031 ("net: expose sk wmem in sock_exceed_buf_limit tracepoint") somehow suppressed the event only when memcg failed to charge for SK_MEM_RECV, although the memcg failure for SK_MEM_SEND still triggers the event. Let's restore the event for SK_MEM_RECV. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250815201712.1745332-5-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: dst: add four helpers to annotate data-races around dst->dev

2025-10-23T14:20:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit 88fe14253e181878c2ddb51a298ae8c468a63010 ] dst->dev is read locklessly in many contexts, and written in dst_dev_put(). Fixing all the races is going to need many changes. We probably will have to add full RCU protection. Add three helpers to ease this painful process. static inline struct net_device *dst_dev(const struct dst_entry *dst) { return READ_ONCE(dst->dev); } static inline struct net_device *skb_dst_dev(const struct sk_buff *skb) { return dst_dev(skb_dst(skb)); } static inline struct net *skb_dst_dev_net(const struct sk_buff *skb) { return dev_net(skb_dst_dev(skb)); } static inline struct net *skb_dst_dev_net_rcu(const struct sk_buff *skb) { return dev_net_rcu(skb_dst_dev(skb)); } Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-7-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 833d4313bc1e ("mptcp: reset blackhole on success with non-loopback ifaces") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: cache RTAX_QUICKACK metric in a hot cache line

2025-10-23T14:20:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit 15492700ac41459b54a6683490adcee350ab11e3 ] tcp_in_quickack_mode() is called from input path for small packets. It calls __sk_dst_get() which reads sk->sk_dst_cache which has been put in sock_read_tx group (for good reasons). Then dst_metric(dst, RTAX_QUICKACK) also needs extra cache line misses. Cache RTAX_QUICKACK in icsk->icsk_ack.dst_quick_ack to no longer pull these cache lines for the cases a delayed ACK is scheduled. After this patch TCP receive path does not longer access sock_read_tx group. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312083907.1931644-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: 833d4313bc1e ("mptcp: reset blackhole on success with non-loopback ifaces") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: better track kernel sockets lifetime

2025-08-20T16:30:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5c70eb5c593d64d93b178905da215a9fd288a4b5 ] While kernel sockets are dismantled during pernet_operations->exit(), their freeing can be delayed by any tx packets still held in qdisc or device queues, due to skb_set_owner_w() prior calls. This then trigger the following warning from ref_tracker_dir_exit() [1] To fix this, make sure that kernel sockets own a reference on net->passive. Add sk_net_refcnt_upgrade() helper, used whenever a kernel socket is converted to a refcounted one. [1] [ 136.263918][ T35] ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@ffff8880638f01e0 has 1/2 users at [ 136.263918][ T35] sk_alloc+0x2b3/0x370 [ 136.263918][ T35] inet6_create+0x6ce/0x10f0 [ 136.263918][ T35] __sock_create+0x4c0/0xa30 [ 136.263918][ T35] inet_ctl_sock_create+0xc2/0x250 [ 136.263918][ T35] igmp6_net_init+0x39/0x390 [ 136.263918][ T35] ops_init+0x31e/0x590 [ 136.263918][ T35] setup_net+0x287/0x9e0 [ 136.263918][ T35] copy_net_ns+0x33f/0x570 [ 136.263918][ T35] create_new_namespaces+0x425/0x7b0 [ 136.263918][ T35] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x124/0x180 [ 136.263918][ T35] ksys_unshare+0x57d/0xa70 [ 136.263918][ T35] __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40 [ 136.263918][ T35] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 [ 136.263918][ T35] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f [ 136.263918][ T35] [ 136.343488][ T35] ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@ffff8880638f01e0 has 1/2 users at [ 136.343488][ T35] sk_alloc+0x2b3/0x370 [ 136.343488][ T35] inet6_create+0x6ce/0x10f0 [ 136.343488][ T35] __sock_create+0x4c0/0xa30 [ 136.343488][ T35] inet_ctl_sock_create+0xc2/0x250 [ 136.343488][ T35] ndisc_net_init+0xa7/0x2b0 [ 136.343488][ T35] ops_init+0x31e/0x590 [ 136.343488][ T35] setup_net+0x287/0x9e0 [ 136.343488][ T35] copy_net_ns+0x33f/0x570 [ 136.343488][ T35] create_new_namespaces+0x425/0x7b0 [ 136.343488][ T35] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x124/0x180 [ 136.343488][ T35] ksys_unshare+0x57d/0xa70 [ 136.343488][ T35] __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40 [ 136.343488][ T35] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 [ 136.343488][ T35] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Fixes: 0cafd77dcd03 ("net: add a refcount tracker for kernel sockets") Reported-by: syzbot+30a19e01a97420719891@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/67b72aeb.050a0220.14d86d.0283.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220131854.4048077-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sock: Correct error checking condition for (assign|release)_proto_idx()

2025-06-27T10:11:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit faeefc173be40512341b102cf1568aa0b6571acd ] (assign|release)_proto_idx() wrongly check find_first_zero_bit() failure by condition '(prot->inuse_idx == PROTO_INUSE_NR - 1)' obviously. Fix by correcting the condition to '(prot->inuse_idx == PROTO_INUSE_NR)' Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410-fix_net-v2-1-d69e7c5739a4@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin