High · published November 13, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Don't call reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_conn_request().
syzbot reported the splat below in tcp_conn_request(). [0]
If a listener is close()d while a TFO socket is being processed in
tcp_conn_request(), inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() does not set reqsk->sk
and calls inet_child_forget(), which calls tcp_disconnect() for the
TFO socket.
After the cited commit, tcp_disconnect() calls reqsk_fastopen_remove(),
where reqsk_put() is called due to !reqsk->sk.
Then, reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_conn_request() decrements the
last req->rsk_refcnt and frees reqsk, and __reqsk_free() at the
drop_and_free label causes the refcount underflow for the listener
and double-free of the reqsk.
Let's remove reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_conn_request().
Note that other callers make sure tp->fastopen_rsk is not NULL.
[0]:
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 5563 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate (lib/refcount.c:28)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 5563 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate (lib/refcount.c:28)
Code: ab e8 8e b4 98 ff 0f 0b c3 cc cc cc cc cc 80 3d a4 e4 d6 01 00 75 9c c6 05 9b e4 d6 01 01 48 c7 c7 e8 df fb ab e8 6a b4 98 ff <0f> 0b e9 03 5b 76 00 cc 80 3d 7d e4 d6 01 00 0f 85 74 ff ff ff c6
RSP: 0018:ffffa79fc0304a98 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: d83af4db1c6b3900 RBX: ffff9f65c7a69020 RCX: d83af4db1c6b3900
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffff7fff RDI: ffffffffac78a280
RBP: 000000009d781b60 R08: 0000000000007fff R09: ffffffffac6ca280
R10: 0000000000017ffd R11: 0000000000000004 R12: ffff9f65c7b4f100
R13: ffff9f65c7d23c00 R14: ffff9f65c7d26000 R15: ffff9f65c7a64ef8
FS: 00007f9f962176c0(0000) GS:ffff9f65fcf00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000180 CR3: 000000000dbbe006 CR4: 0000000000372ef0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
tcp_conn_request (./include/linux/refcount.h:400 ./include/linux/refcount.h:432 ./include/linux/refcount.h:450 ./include/net/sock.h:1965 ./include/net/request_sock.h:131 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:7301)
tcp_rcv_state_process (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6708)
tcp_v6_do_rcv (net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1670)
tcp_v6_rcv (net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1906)
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:438)
ip6_input (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:500)
ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:311)
__netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6104)
process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6456)
__napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7506)
net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7569 net/core/dev.c:7696)
handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:579)
do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:480)
</IRQ>