There is no guarantee that state->sk refers to a full socket. If refcount transitions to 0, sock_put calls sk_free which then ends up with garbage fields. I'd like to thank Oleksandr Natalenko and Jiri Benc for considerable debug work and pointing out state->sk oddities. Fixes: ca6fb0651883 ("tcp: attach SYNACK messages to request sockets instead of listener") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- No reproducer, so there is a chance that the reported crash is caused by something else. That said, I don't see how sock_put use is safe here. net/netfilter/nf_queue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c index 6d12afabfe8a..178742a110d9 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static void nf_queue_entry_release_refs(struct nf_queue_entry *entry) dev_put(state->in); dev_put(state->out); if (state->sk) - sock_put(state->sk); + sock_gen_put(state->sk); #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER) dev_put(entry->physin); -- 2.34.1