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Linux Linux — bpf, sockmap: Fix race between element replace and close()
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L H L N U H H H 7.0 .0018 7.8 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c – —
Linux 4.20 – 5.10.236
TIMELINE
Dec 27 Reserved by Linux
Dec 27 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-56664 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, sockmap: Fix race between element replace and close()
Element replace (with a socket different from the one stored) may race
with socket's close() link popping & unlinking. __sock_map_delete()
unconditionally unrefs the (wrong) element:
// set map[0] = s0
map_update_elem(map, 0, s0)
// drop fd of s0
close(s0)
sock_map_close()
lock_sock(sk) (s0!)
sock_map_remove_links(sk)
link = sk_psock_link_pop()
sock_map_unlink(sk, link)
sock_map_delete_from_link
// replace map[0] with s1
map_update_elem(map, 0, s1)
sock_map_update_elem
(s1!) lock_sock(sk)
sock_map_update_common
psock = sk_psock(sk)
spin_lock(&stab->lock)
osk = stab->sks[idx]
sock_map_add_link(..., &stab->sks[idx])
sock_map_unref(osk, &stab->sks[idx])
psock = sk_psock(osk)
sk_psock_put(sk, psock)
if (refcount_dec_and_test(&psock))
sk_psock_drop(sk, psock)
spin_unlock(&stab->lock)
unlock_sock(sk)
__sock_map_delete
spin_lock(&stab->lock)
sk = *psk // s1 replaced s0; sk == s1
if (!sk_test || sk_test == sk) // sk_test (s0) != sk (s1); no branch
sk = xchg(psk, NULL)
if (sk)
sock_map_unref(sk, psk) // unref s1; sks[idx] will dangle
psock = sk_psock(sk)
sk_psock_put(sk, psock)
if (refcount_dec_and_test())
sk_psock_drop(sk, psock)
spin_unlock(&stab->lock)
release_sock(sk)
Then close(map) enqueues bpf_map_free_deferred, which finally calls
sock_map_free(). This results in some refcount_t warnings along with
a KASAN splat [1].
Fix __sock_map_delete(), do not allow sock_map_unref() on elements that
may have been replaced.
[1]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sock_map_free+0x10e/0x330
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88811f5b9100 by task kworker/u64:12/1063
CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 1063 Comm: kworker/u64:12 Not tainted 6.12.0+ #125
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events_unbound bpf_map_free_deferred
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x90
print_report+0x174/0x4f6
kasan_report+0xb9/0x190
kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0
sock_map_free+0x10e/0x330
bpf_map_free_deferred+0x173/0x320
process_one_work+0x846/0x1420
worker_thread+0x5b3/0xf80
kthread+0x29e/0x360
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1202:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x85/0x90
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x131/0x450
sk_prot_alloc+0x5b/0x220
sk_alloc+0x2c/0x870
unix_create1+0x88/0x8a0
unix_create+0xc5/0x180
__sock_create+0x241/0x650
__sys_socketpair+0x1ce/0x420
__x64_sys_socketpair+0x92/0x100
do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Freed by task 46:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x37/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x4b/0x70
kmem_cache_free+0x1a1/0x590
__sk_destruct+0x388/0x5a0
sk_psock_destroy+0x73e/0xa50
process_one_work+0x846/0x1420
worker_thread+0x5b3/0xf80
kthread+0x29e/0x360
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
The bu
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Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| December 27, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| December 27, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-56664 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 4.20 | 5.10.236 |
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