This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled unix: Fix race in SOCK_SEQPACKET's unix_dgram_sendmsg() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: unix-fix-race-in-sock_seqpacket-s-unix_dgram_sendmsg.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7f63a953adf1a3a6668e80b36146036101272382 Author: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxx> Date: Tue Dec 13 00:05:53 2022 +0300 unix: Fix race in SOCK_SEQPACKET's unix_dgram_sendmsg() [ Upstream commit 3ff8bff704f4de125dca2262e5b5b963a3da1d87 ] There is a race resulting in alive SOCK_SEQPACKET socket may change its state from TCP_ESTABLISHED to TCP_CLOSE: unix_release_sock(peer) unix_dgram_sendmsg(sk) sock_orphan(peer) sock_set_flag(peer, SOCK_DEAD) sock_alloc_send_pskb() if !(sk->sk_shutdown & SEND_SHUTDOWN) OK if sock_flag(peer, SOCK_DEAD) sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE sk->sk_shutdown = SHUTDOWN_MASK After that socket sk remains almost normal: it is able to connect, listen, accept and recvmsg, while it can't sendmsg. Since this is the only possibility for alive SOCK_SEQPACKET to change the state in such way, we should better fix this strange and potentially danger corner case. Note, that we will return EPIPE here like this is normally done in sock_alloc_send_pskb(). Originally used ECONNREFUSED looks strange, since it's strange to return a specific retval in dependence of race in kernel, when user can't affect on this. Also, move TCP_CLOSE assignment for SOCK_DGRAM sockets under state lock to fix race with unix_dgram_connect(): unix_dgram_connect(other) unix_dgram_sendmsg(sk) unix_peer(sk) = NULL unix_state_unlock(sk) unix_state_double_lock(sk, other) sk->sk_state = TCP_ESTABLISHED unix_peer(sk) = other unix_state_double_unlock(sk, other) sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSED This patch fixes both of these races. Fixes: 83301b5367a9 ("af_unix: Set TCP_ESTABLISHED for datagram sockets too") Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/135fda25-22d5-837a-782b-ceee50e19844@xxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c index 545823c1d5ed..0a59a00cb581 100644 --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c @@ -1865,13 +1865,20 @@ static int unix_dgram_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, unix_state_lock(sk); err = 0; - if (unix_peer(sk) == other) { + if (sk->sk_type == SOCK_SEQPACKET) { + /* We are here only when racing with unix_release_sock() + * is clearing @other. Never change state to TCP_CLOSE + * unlike SOCK_DGRAM wants. + */ + unix_state_unlock(sk); + err = -EPIPE; + } else if (unix_peer(sk) == other) { unix_peer(sk) = NULL; unix_dgram_peer_wake_disconnect_wakeup(sk, other); + sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE; unix_state_unlock(sk); - sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE; unix_dgram_disconnected(sk, other); sock_put(other); err = -ECONNREFUSED;