CVE-2026-22977

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

net: sock: fix hardened usercopy panic in sock_recv_errqueue

skbuff_fclone_cache was created without defining a usercopy region,

[1] unlike skbuff_head_cache which properly whitelists the cb[] field.

[2] This causes a usercopy BUG() when CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is

enabled and the kernel attempts to copy sk_buff.cb data to userspace

via sock_recv_errqueue() -> put_cmsg().

The crash occurs when: 1. TCP allocates an skb using alloc_skb_fclone()

(from skbuff_fclone_cache) [1]

2. The skb is cloned via skb_clone() using the pre-allocated fclone

[3] 3. The cloned skb is queued to sk_error_queue for timestamp

reporting 4. Userspace reads the error queue via recvmsg(MSG_ERRQUEUE)

5. sock_recv_errqueue() calls put_cmsg() to copy serr->ee from skb->cb

[4] 6. __check_heap_object() fails because skbuff_fclone_cache has no

usercopy whitelist [5]

When cloned skbs allocated from skbuff_fclone_cache are used in the

socket error queue, accessing the sock_exterr_skb structure in skb->cb

via put_cmsg() triggers a usercopy hardening violation:

[ 5.379589] usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'skbuff_fclone_cache' (offset 296, size 16)!

[ 5.382796] kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!

[ 5.383923] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI

[ 5.384903] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 138 Comm: poc_put_cmsg Not tainted 6.12.57 #7

[ 5.384903] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

[ 5.384903] RIP: 0010:usercopy_abort+0x6c/0x80

[ 5.384903] Code: 1a 86 51 48 c7 c2 40 15 1a 86 41 52 48 c7 c7 c0 15 1a 86 48 0f 45 d6 48 c7 c6 80 15 1a 86 48 89 c1 49 0f 45 f3 e8 84 27 88 ff <0f> 0b 490

[ 5.384903] RSP: 0018:ffffc900006f77a8 EFLAGS: 00010246

[ 5.384903] RAX: 000000000000006f RBX: ffff88800f0ad2a8 RCX: 1ffffffff0f72e74

[ 5.384903] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffffff87b973a0

[ 5.384903] RBP: 0000000000000010 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff0f72e74

[ 5.384903] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 79706f6372657375 R12: 0000000000000001

[ 5.384903] R13: ffff88800f0ad2b8 R14: ffffea00003c2b40 R15: ffffea00003c2b00

[ 5.384903] FS: 0000000011bc4380(0000) GS:ffff8880bf100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 5.384903] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 5.384903] CR2: 000056aa3b8e5fe4 CR3: 000000000ea26004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0

[ 5.384903] PKRU: 55555554

[ 5.384903] Call Trace:

[ 5.384903] <TASK>

[ 5.384903] __check_heap_object+0x9a/0xd0

[ 5.384903] __check_object_size+0x46c/0x690

[ 5.384903] put_cmsg+0x129/0x5e0

[ 5.384903] sock_recv_errqueue+0x22f/0x380

[ 5.384903] tls_sw_recvmsg+0x7ed/0x1960

[ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5

[ 5.384903] ? schedule+0x6d/0x270

[ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5

[ 5.384903] ? mutex_unlock+0x81/0xd0

[ 5.384903] ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10

[ 5.384903] ? __pfx_tls_sw_recvmsg+0x10/0x10

[ 5.384903] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x8f/0xf0

[ 5.384903] ? _raw_read_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40

[ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5

The crash offset 296 corresponds to skb2->cb within skbuff_fclones:

- sizeof(struct sk_buff) = 232 - offsetof(struct sk_buff, cb) = 40 -

offset of skb2.cb in fclones = 232 + 40 = 272 - crash offset 296 =

272 + 24 (inside sock_exterr_skb.ee)

This patch uses a local stack variable as a bounce buffer to avoid the hardened usercopy check failure.

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/ipv4/tcp.c#L885

[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5104

[3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5566

[4] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5491

[5] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/mm/slub.c#L5719