CVE-2025-38154 Information

Jul 04, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf sockmap: Avoid using sk_socket after free when sending

The sk->sk_socket is not locked or referenced in backlog thread and during the call to skb_send_sock() there is a race condition with the release of sk_socket. All types of sockets(tcp/udp/unix/vsock) will be affected.

Race conditions: ’’' CPU0 CPU1

backlog::skb_send_sock sendmsg_unlocked sock_sendmsg sock_sendmsg_nosec close(fd): … ops->release() -> sock_map_close() sk_socket->ops = NULL free(socket) sock->ops->sendmsg ^ panic here ’''

The ref of psock become 0 after sock_map_close() executed. ’’' void sock_map_close()

...
if (likely(psock)) 
...
// !! here we remove psock and the ref of psock become 0
sock_map_remove_links(sk psock)
psock = sk_psock_get(sk);
if (unlikely(!psock))
    goto no_psock; <=== Control jumps here via goto
    ...
    cancel_delayed_work_sync(&psock->work); <=== not executed
    sk_psock_put(sk psock);
    ...

’''

Based on the fact that we already wait for the workqueue to finish in sock_map_close() if psock is held we simply increase the psock reference count to avoid race conditions.

With this patch if the backlog thread is running sock_map_close() will wait for the backlog thread to complete and cancel all pending work.

If no backlog running any pending work that hasn’t started by then will fail when invoked by sk_psock_get() as the psock reference count have been zeroed and sk_psock_drop() will cancel all jobs via cancel_delayed_work_sync().

In summary we require synchronization to coordinate the backlog thread and close() thread.

The panic I catched: ’’' Workqueue: events sk_psock_backlog RIP: 0010:sock_sendmsg+0x21d/0x440 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc9000521fad8 RCX: 0000000000000001 … Call Trace: ? die_addr+0x40/0xa0 ? exc_general_protection+0x14c/0x230 ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30 ? sock_sendmsg+0x21d/0x440 ? sock_sendmsg+0x3e0/0x440 ? __pfx_sock_sendmsg+0x10/0x10 __skb_send_sock+0x543/0xb70 sk_psock_backlog+0x247/0xb80 … ’''

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15c0250dae3b48a398447d2b364603821ed4ed90 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c6fa65ab2aec7df94809478c8d28ef38676a1b7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4edb40b05cb6a261775abfd8046804ca139a5546 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c0a16f6ea2b1c82a03bccd5d1bdb4a7bbd4d987 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8259eb0e06d8f64c700f5fbdb28a5c18e10de291 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b19cbf0b9a91f5a0d93fbcd761ff71c48ab40ed9

CNNVD-202507-240 (Published: 2025-07-03)

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