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net/tcp: Fix socket memory leak in TCP-AO failure handling for IPv6
authorChristoph Paasch <cpaasch@openai.com>
Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:55:38 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 9 Sep 2025 16:58:10 +0000 (18:58 +0200)
commit46d33c878fc0b3d7570366b2c9912395b3f4e701
tree3f2d5740909b267270ea5efad1eb75b3036922b2
parent609a8ffff5a0d407cb49f185cd8a2a14f05a9bc5
net/tcp: Fix socket memory leak in TCP-AO failure handling for IPv6

[ Upstream commit fa390321aba0a54d0f7ae95ee4ecde1358bb9234 ]

When tcp_ao_copy_all_matching() fails in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() it just
exits the function. This ends up causing a memory-leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff0000281a8200 (size 2496):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4295174684
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    7f 00 00 06 7f 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 cb a8 88 13  ................
    0a 00 03 61 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...a............
  backtrace (crc 5ebdbe15):
    kmemleak_alloc+0x44/0xe0
    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x248/0x470
    sk_prot_alloc+0x48/0x120
    sk_clone_lock+0x38/0x3b0
    inet_csk_clone_lock+0x34/0x150
    tcp_create_openreq_child+0x3c/0x4a8
    tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock+0x1c0/0x620
    tcp_check_req+0x588/0x790
    tcp_v6_rcv+0x5d0/0xc18
    ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x2d8/0x4c0
    ip6_input_finish+0x74/0x148
    ip6_input+0x50/0x118
    ip6_sublist_rcv+0x2fc/0x3b0
    ipv6_list_rcv+0x114/0x170
    __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x16c/0x200
    netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1f0/0x2d0

This is because in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock (and the IPv4 counterpart), when
exiting upon error, inet_csk_prepare_forced_close() and tcp_done() need
to be called. They make sure the newsk will end up being correctly
free'd.

tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() makes this very clear by having the put_and_exit
label that takes care of things. So, this patch here makes sure
tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock and tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock have similar
error-handling and thus fixes the leak for TCP-AO.

Fixes: 06b22ef29591 ("net/tcp: Wire TCP-AO to request sockets")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@openai.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250830-tcpao_leak-v1-1-e5878c2c3173@openai.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c