This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled udp6: Fix race condition in udp6_sendmsg & connect to the 5.10-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: udp6-fix-race-condition-in-udp6_sendmsg-connect.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bb7fa174539bff4a50e35c694272454ae3a02fd6 Author: Vladislav Efanov <VEfanov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 30 14:39:41 2023 +0300 udp6: Fix race condition in udp6_sendmsg & connect [ Upstream commit 448a5ce1120c5bdbce1f1ccdabcd31c7d029f328 ] Syzkaller got the following report: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in sk_setup_caps+0x621/0x690 net/core/sock.c:2018 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888027f82780 by task syz-executor276/3255 The function sk_setup_caps (called by ip6_sk_dst_store_flow-> ip6_dst_store) referenced already freed memory as this memory was freed by parallel task in udpv6_sendmsg->ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow-> sk_dst_check. task1 (connect) task2 (udp6_sendmsg) sk_setup_caps->sk_dst_set | | sk_dst_check-> | sk_dst_set | dst_release sk_setup_caps references | to already freed dst_entry| The reason for this race condition is: sk_setup_caps() keeps using the dst after transferring the ownership to the dst cache. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with syzkaller. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Vladislav Efanov <VEfanov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index b8f8252d36819..2fba329e8c7a5 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -2029,7 +2029,6 @@ void sk_setup_caps(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst) { u32 max_segs = 1; - sk_dst_set(sk, dst); sk->sk_route_caps = dst->dev->features | sk->sk_route_forced_caps; if (sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_GSO) sk->sk_route_caps |= NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE; @@ -2044,6 +2043,7 @@ void sk_setup_caps(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst) } } sk->sk_gso_max_segs = max_segs; + sk_dst_set(sk, dst); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sk_setup_caps);