CVE-2024-26831

net/handshake: Fix handshake_req_destroy_test1

published April 17, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/handshake: Fix handshake_req_destroy_test1

Recently, handshake_req_destroy_test1 started failing:

Expected handshake_req_destroy_test == req, but

handshake_req_destroy_test == 0000000000000000

req == 0000000060f99b40

not ok 11 req_destroy works

This is because "sock_release(sock)" was replaced with "fput(filp)"

to address a memory leak. Note that sock_release() is synchronous

but fput() usually delays the final close and clean-up.

The delay is not consequential in the other cases that were changed

but handshake_req_destroy_test1 is testing that handshake_req_cancel()

followed by closing the file actually does call the ->hp_destroy

method. Thus the PTR_EQ test at the end has to be sure that the

final close is complete before it checks the pointer.

We cannot use a completion here because if ->hp_destroy is never

called (ie, there is an API bug) then the test will hang.

Reported by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00225 · 12.5th percentile
Published
2024-04-17T09:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 APR 09:43Z
    net/handshake: Fix handshake_req_destroy_test1
    cvelistv5