This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sctp: set sk_state back to CLOSED if autobind fails in sctp_listen_start 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: sctp-set-sk_state-back-to-closed-if-autobind-fails-i.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 b840b7c663dd5f4c7ce764cb60937b5d763256ef Author: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 30 16:49:51 2024 -0400 sctp: set sk_state back to CLOSED if autobind fails in sctp_listen_start [ Upstream commit 8beee4d8dee76b67c75dc91fd8185d91e845c160 ] In sctp_listen_start() invoked by sctp_inet_listen(), it should set the sk_state back to CLOSED if sctp_autobind() fails due to whatever reason. Otherwise, next time when calling sctp_inet_listen(), if sctp_sk(sk)->reuse is already set via setsockopt(SCTP_REUSE_PORT), sctp_sk(sk)->bind_hash will be dereferenced as sk_state is LISTENING, which causes a crash as bind_hash is NULL. KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:sctp_inet_listen+0x7f0/0xa20 net/sctp/socket.c:8617 Call Trace: <TASK> __sys_listen_socket net/socket.c:1883 [inline] __sys_listen+0x1b7/0x230 net/socket.c:1894 __do_sys_listen net/socket.c:1902 [inline] Fixes: 5e8f3f703ae4 ("sctp: simplify sctp listening code") Reported-by: syzbot+f4e0f821e3a3b7cee51d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a93e655b3c153dc8945d7a812e6d8ab0d52b7aa0.1727729391.git.lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c index 9fe13de66b272..2818cf160f3a3 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -8542,8 +8542,10 @@ static int sctp_listen_start(struct sock *sk, int backlog) */ inet_sk_set_state(sk, SCTP_SS_LISTENING); if (!ep->base.bind_addr.port) { - if (sctp_autobind(sk)) + if (sctp_autobind(sk)) { + inet_sk_set_state(sk, SCTP_SS_CLOSED); return -EAGAIN; + } } else { if (sctp_get_port(sk, inet_sk(sk)->inet_num)) { inet_sk_set_state(sk, SCTP_SS_CLOSED);