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net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption
authorMuhammad Alifa Ramdhan <ramdhan@starlabs.sg>
Fri, 3 Apr 2026 01:36:17 +0000 (09:36 +0800)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 Apr 2026 12:53:42 +0000 (14:53 +0200)
commita9b8b18364fffce4c451e6f6fd218fa4ab646705
treebad88873645e27a86c5c9a4655d08a46b799c222
parenta9d4f4f6e65e0bf9bbddedecc84d67249991979c
net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption

The -EBUSY handling in tls_do_encryption(), introduced by commit
859054147318 ("net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests"), has
a use-after-free due to double cleanup of encrypt_pending and the
scatterlist entry.

When crypto_aead_encrypt() returns -EBUSY, the request is enqueued to
the cryptd backlog and the async callback tls_encrypt_done() will be
invoked upon completion. That callback unconditionally restores the
scatterlist entry (sge->offset, sge->length) and decrements
ctx->encrypt_pending. However, if tls_encrypt_async_wait() returns an
error, the synchronous error path in tls_do_encryption() performs the
same cleanup again, double-decrementing encrypt_pending and
double-restoring the scatterlist.

The double-decrement corrupts the encrypt_pending sentinel (initialized
to 1), making tls_encrypt_async_wait() permanently skip the wait for
pending async callbacks. A subsequent sendmsg can then free the
tls_rec via bpf_exec_tx_verdict() while a cryptd callback is still
pending, resulting in a use-after-free when the callback fires on the
freed record.

Fix this by skipping the synchronous cleanup when the -EBUSY async
wait returns an error, since the callback has already handled
encrypt_pending and sge restoration.

Fixes: 859054147318 ("net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Alifa Ramdhan <ramdhan@starlabs.sg>
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403013617.2838875-1-ramdhan@starlabs.sg
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
net/tls/tls_sw.c