CVE-2022-49979
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/06/2025
Last modified:
23/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
net: fix refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2)<br />
<br />
Syzkaller reports refcount bug as follows:<br />
------------[ cut here ]------------<br />
refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.<br />
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3605 at lib/refcount.c:19 refcount_warn_saturate+0xf4/0x1e0 lib/refcount.c:19<br />
Modules linked in:<br />
CPU: 1 PID: 3605 Comm: syz-executor208 Not tainted 5.18.0-syzkaller-03023-g7e062cda7d90 #0<br />
<br />
__refcount_add_not_zero include/linux/refcount.h:163 [inline]<br />
__refcount_inc_not_zero include/linux/refcount.h:227 [inline]<br />
refcount_inc_not_zero include/linux/refcount.h:245 [inline]<br />
sk_psock_get+0x3bc/0x410 include/linux/skmsg.h:439<br />
tls_data_ready+0x6d/0x1b0 net/tls/tls_sw.c:2091<br />
tcp_data_ready+0x106/0x520 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4983<br />
tcp_data_queue+0x25f2/0x4c90 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5057<br />
tcp_rcv_state_process+0x1774/0x4e80 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6659<br />
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x339/0x980 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1682<br />
sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1061 [inline]<br />
__release_sock+0x134/0x3b0 net/core/sock.c:2849<br />
release_sock+0x54/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3404<br />
inet_shutdown+0x1e0/0x430 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:909<br />
__sys_shutdown_sock net/socket.c:2331 [inline]<br />
__sys_shutdown_sock net/socket.c:2325 [inline]<br />
__sys_shutdown+0xf1/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2343<br />
__do_sys_shutdown net/socket.c:2351 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_shutdown net/socket.c:2349 [inline]<br />
__x64_sys_shutdown+0x50/0x70 net/socket.c:2349<br />
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]<br />
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0<br />
<br />
<br />
During SMC fallback process in connect syscall, kernel will<br />
replaces TCP with SMC. In order to forward wakeup<br />
smc socket waitqueue after fallback, kernel will sets<br />
clcsk->sk_user_data to origin smc socket in<br />
smc_fback_replace_callbacks().<br />
<br />
Later, in shutdown syscall, kernel will calls<br />
sk_psock_get(), which treats the clcsk->sk_user_data<br />
as psock type, triggering the refcnt warning.<br />
<br />
So, the root cause is that smc and psock, both will use<br />
sk_user_data field. So they will mismatch this field<br />
easily.<br />
<br />
This patch solves it by using another bit(defined as<br />
SK_USER_DATA_PSOCK) in PTRMASK, to mark whether<br />
sk_user_data points to a psock object or not.<br />
This patch depends on a PTRMASK introduced in commit f1ff5ce2cd5e<br />
("net, sk_msg: Clear sk_user_data pointer on clone if tagged").<br />
<br />
For there will possibly be more flags in the sk_user_data field,<br />
this patch also refactor sk_user_data flags code to be more generic<br />
to improve its maintainability.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.10.141 (excluding) | |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.11 (including) | 5.15.65 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.16 (including) | 5.19.7 (excluding) |
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