Bug 2363522 (CVE-2022-49814) - CVE-2022-49814 kernel: kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue
Summary: CVE-2022-49814 kernel: kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49814
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-02 04:56 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:08:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue

sk->sk_receive_queue is protected by skb queue lock, but for KCM
sockets its RX path takes mux->rx_lock to protect more than just
skb queue. However, kcm_recvmsg() still only grabs the skb queue
lock, so race conditions still exist.

We can teach kcm_recvmsg() to grab mux->rx_lock too but this would
introduce a potential performance regression as struct kcm_mux can
be shared by multiple KCM sockets.

So we have to enforce skb queue lock in requeue_rx_msgs() and handle
skb peek case carefully in kcm_wait_data(). Fortunately,
skb_recv_datagram() already handles it nicely and is widely used by
other sockets, we can just switch to skb_recv_datagram() after
getting rid of the unnecessary sock lock in kcm_recvmsg() and
kcm_splice_read(). Side note: SOCK_DONE is not used by KCM sockets,
so it is safe to get rid of this check too.

I ran the original syzbot reproducer for 30 min without seeing any
issue.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:44:08 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050131-CVE-2022-49814-2f30@gregkh/T


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