Message-ID: <2025120433-CVE-2025-40257-53e6@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  4 Dec 2025 16:57:38 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40257: mptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer()

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

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

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

mptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer()

mptcp_pm_del_add_timer() can call sk_stop_timer_sync(sk, &entry->add_timer)
while another might have free entry already, as reported by syzbot.

Add RCU protection to fix this issue.

Also change confusing add_timer variable with stop_timer boolean.

syzbot report:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __timer_delete_sync+0x372/0x3f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1616
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880311e4150 by task kworker/1:1/44

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 44 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Workqueue: events mptcp_worker
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
  print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
  kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
  __timer_delete_sync+0x372/0x3f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1616
  sk_stop_timer_sync+0x1b/0x90 net/core/sock.c:3631
  mptcp_pm_del_add_timer+0x283/0x310 net/mptcp/pm.c:362
  mptcp_incoming_options+0x1357/0x1f60 net/mptcp/options.c:1174
  tcp_data_queue+0xca/0x6450 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5361
  tcp_rcv_established+0x1335/0x2670 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6441
  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x98b/0xbf0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1931
  tcp_v4_rcv+0x252a/0x2dc0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2374
  ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x221/0x440 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205
  ip_local_deliver_finish+0x3bb/0x6f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:239
  NF_HOOK+0x30c/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
  NF_HOOK+0x30c/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
  __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6079 [inline]
  __netif_receive_skb+0x143/0x380 net/core/dev.c:6192
  process_backlog+0x31e/0x900 net/core/dev.c:6544
  __napi_poll+0xb6/0x540 net/core/dev.c:7594
  napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7657 [inline]
  net_rx_action+0x5f7/0xda0 net/core/dev.c:7784
  handle_softirqs+0x22f/0x710 kernel/softirq.c:622
  __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
  __local_bh_enable_ip+0x1a0/0x2e0 kernel/softirq.c:302
  mptcp_pm_send_ack net/mptcp/pm.c:210 [inline]
 mptcp_pm_addr_send_ack+0x41f/0x500 net/mptcp/pm.c:-1
  mptcp_pm_worker+0x174/0x320 net/mptcp/pm.c:1002
  mptcp_worker+0xd5/0x1170 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2762
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3263 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3346
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 44:
  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
  poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:400 [inline]
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:417
  kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline]
  __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1ef/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5748
  kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
  mptcp_pm_alloc_anno_list+0x104/0x460 net/mptcp/pm.c:385
  mptcp_pm_create_subflow_or_signal_addr+0xf9d/0x1360 net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:355
  mptcp_pm_nl_fully_established net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:409 [inline]
  __mptcp_pm_kernel_worker+0x417/0x1ef0 net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1529
  mptcp_pm_worker+0x1ee/0x320 net/mptcp/pm.c:1008
  mptcp_worker+0xd5/0x1170 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2762
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3263 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3346
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 6630:
  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
  __kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:587
  kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline]
  poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
  __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
  kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
  slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2523 [inline]
  slab_free mm/slub.c:6611 [inline]
  kfree+0x197/0x950 mm/slub.c:6818
  mptcp_remove_anno_list_by_saddr+0x2d/0x40 net/mptcp/pm.c:158
  mptcp_pm_flush_addrs_and_subflows net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1209 [inline]
  mptcp_nl_flush_addrs_list net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1240 [inline]
  mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit+0x593/0xbb0 net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1281
  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x215/0x300 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115
  genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]
  genl_rcv_msg+0x60e/0x790 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
  genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219
  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
  netlink_unicast+0x846/0xa10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
  netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
  __sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:742
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x508/0x820 net/socket.c:2630
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2684
  __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2716 [inline]
  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2721 [inline]
  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2719 [inline]
  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1a1/0x260 net/socket.c:2719
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40257 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.10 with commit 00cfd77b9063dcdf3628a7087faba60de85a9cc8 and fixed in 6.6.118 with commit c602cc344b4b8d41515fec3ffa98457ac963ee12
	Issue introduced in 5.10 with commit 00cfd77b9063dcdf3628a7087faba60de85a9cc8 and fixed in 6.12.60 with commit 6d3275d4ca62e2c02e1b7e8cd32db59df91c14b7
	Issue introduced in 5.10 with commit 00cfd77b9063dcdf3628a7087faba60de85a9cc8 and fixed in 6.17.10 with commit bbbd75346c8e6490b19c2ba90f38ea66ccf352b2
	Issue introduced in 5.10 with commit 00cfd77b9063dcdf3628a7087faba60de85a9cc8 and fixed in 6.18 with commit 426358d9be7ce3518966422f87b96f1bad27295f

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-2025-40257
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:
	net/mptcp/pm.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/c602cc344b4b8d41515fec3ffa98457ac963ee12
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d3275d4ca62e2c02e1b7e8cd32db59df91c14b7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbbd75346c8e6490b19c2ba90f38ea66ccf352b2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/426358d9be7ce3518966422f87b96f1bad27295f

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