linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49979: net: fix refcount bug in sk_psock

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Message-ID: <2025061820-CVE-2022-49979-f695@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:00:44 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49979: net: fix refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2)

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: fix refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2)

Syzkaller reports refcount bug as follows:
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3605 at lib/refcount.c:19 refcount_warn_saturate+0xf4/0x1e0 lib/refcount.c:19
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 3605 Comm: syz-executor208 Not tainted 5.18.0-syzkaller-03023-g7e062cda7d90 #0
 <TASK>
 __refcount_add_not_zero include/linux/refcount.h:163 [inline]
 __refcount_inc_not_zero include/linux/refcount.h:227 [inline]
 refcount_inc_not_zero include/linux/refcount.h:245 [inline]
 sk_psock_get+0x3bc/0x410 include/linux/skmsg.h:439
 tls_data_ready+0x6d/0x1b0 net/tls/tls_sw.c:2091
 tcp_data_ready+0x106/0x520 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4983
 tcp_data_queue+0x25f2/0x4c90 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5057
 tcp_rcv_state_process+0x1774/0x4e80 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6659
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x339/0x980 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1682
 sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1061 [inline]
 __release_sock+0x134/0x3b0 net/core/sock.c:2849
 release_sock+0x54/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3404
 inet_shutdown+0x1e0/0x430 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:909
 __sys_shutdown_sock net/socket.c:2331 [inline]
 __sys_shutdown_sock net/socket.c:2325 [inline]
 __sys_shutdown+0xf1/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2343
 __do_sys_shutdown net/socket.c:2351 [inline]
 __se_sys_shutdown net/socket.c:2349 [inline]
 __x64_sys_shutdown+0x50/0x70 net/socket.c:2349
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
 </TASK>

During SMC fallback process in connect syscall, kernel will
replaces TCP with SMC. In order to forward wakeup
smc socket waitqueue after fallback, kernel will sets
clcsk->sk_user_data to origin smc socket in
smc_fback_replace_callbacks().

Later, in shutdown syscall, kernel will calls
sk_psock_get(), which treats the clcsk->sk_user_data
as psock type, triggering the refcnt warning.

So, the root cause is that smc and psock, both will use
sk_user_data field. So they will mismatch this field
easily.

This patch solves it by using another bit(defined as
SK_USER_DATA_PSOCK) in PTRMASK, to mark whether
sk_user_data points to a psock object or not.
This patch depends on a PTRMASK introduced in commit f1ff5ce2cd5e
("net, sk_msg: Clear sk_user_data pointer on clone if tagged").

For there will possibly be more flags in the sk_user_data field,
this patch also refactor sk_user_data flags code to be more generic
to improve its maintainability.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49979 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 5.10.141 with commit 61cc798591a36ca27eb7d8d6c09bf20e50a59968
	Fixed in 5.15.65 with commit a5d1cb908131e939bd8b63b8e5e23365bbc2edaf
	Fixed in 5.19.7 with commit 86026be8535c16fcc5e4f960286faf04d7f77815
	Fixed in 6.0 with commit 2a0133723f9ebeb751cfce19f74ec07e108bef1f

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-49979
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	include/linux/skmsg.h
	include/net/sock.h
	net/core/skmsg.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61cc798591a36ca27eb7d8d6c09bf20e50a59968
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5d1cb908131e939bd8b63b8e5e23365bbc2edaf
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86026be8535c16fcc5e4f960286faf04d7f77815
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a0133723f9ebeb751cfce19f74ec07e108bef1f