Bug 2348024 (CVE-2022-49372) - CVE-2022-49372 kernel: tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context
Summary: CVE-2022-49372 kernel: tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49372
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:14 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-26 15:36 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:14:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context

Laurent reported the enclosed report [1]

This bug triggers with following coditions:

0) Kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y

1) A new passive FastOpen TCP socket is created.
   This FO socket waits for an ACK coming from client to be a complete
   ESTABLISHED one.
2) A socket operation on this socket goes through lock_sock()
   release_sock() dance.
3) While the socket is owned by the user in step 2),
   a retransmit of the SYN is received and stored in socket backlog.
4) At release_sock() time, the socket backlog is processed while
   in process context.
5) A SYNACK packet is cooked in response of the SYN retransmit.
6) -> tcp_rtx_synack() is called in process context.

Before blamed commit, tcp_rtx_synack() was always called from BH handler,
from a timer handler.

Fix this by using TCP_INC_STATS() & NET_INC_STATS()
which do not assume caller is in non preemptible context.

[1]
BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: epollpep/2180
caller is tcp_rtx_synack.part.0+0x36/0xc0
CPU: 10 PID: 2180 Comm: epollpep Tainted: G           OE     5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1  Debian 5.16.12-1~bpo11+1
Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-5039MC-H8TRF/X11SCD-F, BIOS 1.7 11/23/2021
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x5e
 check_preemption_disabled+0xde/0xe0
 tcp_rtx_synack.part.0+0x36/0xc0
 tcp_rtx_synack+0x8d/0xa0
 ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e0/0x3e0
 ? apparmor_file_alloc_security+0x3b/0x1f0
 inet_rtx_syn_ack+0x16/0x30
 tcp_check_req+0x367/0x610
 tcp_rcv_state_process+0x91/0xf60
 ? get_nohz_timer_target+0x18/0x1a0
 ? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80
 ? preempt_count_add+0x68/0xa0
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xbd/0x270
 __release_sock+0x6d/0xb0
 release_sock+0x2b/0x90
 sock_setsockopt+0x138/0x1140
 ? __sys_getsockname+0x7e/0xc0
 ? aa_sk_perm+0x3e/0x1a0
 __sys_setsockopt+0x198/0x1e0
 __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x21/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x38/0xc0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 11:05:17 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022646-CVE-2022-49372-45e1@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 15:35:32 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022646-CVE-2022-49372-45e1@gregkh/T


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