linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54226: af_unix: Fix data races around sk->sk

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Message-ID: <2025123029-CVE-2023-54226-b9e9@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:13:56 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54226: af_unix: Fix data races around sk->sk_shutdown.

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

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

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

af_unix: Fix data races around sk->sk_shutdown.

KCSAN found a data race around sk->sk_shutdown where unix_release_sock()
and unix_shutdown() update it under unix_state_lock(), OTOH unix_poll()
and unix_dgram_poll() read it locklessly.

We need to annotate the writes and reads with WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE().

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_poll / unix_release_sock

write to 0xffff88800d0f8aec of 1 bytes by task 264 on cpu 0:
 unix_release_sock+0x75c/0x910 net/unix/af_unix.c:631
 unix_release+0x59/0x80 net/unix/af_unix.c:1042
 __sock_release+0x7d/0x170 net/socket.c:653
 sock_close+0x19/0x30 net/socket.c:1397
 __fput+0x179/0x5e0 fs/file_table.c:321
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:349
 task_work_run+0x116/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:179
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:171 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x174/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:204
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:286 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:297
 do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

read to 0xffff88800d0f8aec of 1 bytes by task 222 on cpu 1:
 unix_poll+0xa3/0x2a0 net/unix/af_unix.c:3170
 sock_poll+0xcf/0x2b0 net/socket.c:1385
 vfs_poll include/linux/poll.h:88 [inline]
 ep_item_poll.isra.0+0x78/0xc0 fs/eventpoll.c:855
 ep_send_events fs/eventpoll.c:1694 [inline]
 ep_poll fs/eventpoll.c:1823 [inline]
 do_epoll_wait+0x6c4/0xea0 fs/eventpoll.c:2258
 __do_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2270 [inline]
 __se_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2265 [inline]
 __x64_sys_epoll_wait+0xcc/0x190 fs/eventpoll.c:2265
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

value changed: 0x00 -> 0x03

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 222 Comm: dbus-broker Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-02330-gca6270c12e20 #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54226 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 4.19.284 with commit 1c488f4e95b498c977fbeae784983eb4cf6085e8
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 5.4.244 with commit 196528ad484443627779540697f4fb0ef0e01c52
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 5.10.181 with commit 8307e372e7445ec7d3cd2ff107ce5078eaa02815
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 5.15.113 with commit a41559ae3681975f1ced815d8d4c983b6b938499
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.1.30 with commit e410895892f99700ce54347d42c8dbe962eea9f4
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.3.4 with commit f237f79b63c9242450e6869adcd2c10445859f28
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.4 with commit e1d09c2c2f5793474556b60f83900e088d0d366d

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-2023-54226
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/unix/af_unix.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/1c488f4e95b498c977fbeae784983eb4cf6085e8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/196528ad484443627779540697f4fb0ef0e01c52
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8307e372e7445ec7d3cd2ff107ce5078eaa02815
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a41559ae3681975f1ced815d8d4c983b6b938499
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e410895892f99700ce54347d42c8dbe962eea9f4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f237f79b63c9242450e6869adcd2c10445859f28
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1d09c2c2f5793474556b60f83900e088d0d366d