Bug 2521430 (CVE-2026-74696) - CVE-2026-74696 kernel: tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration
Summary: CVE-2026-74696 kernel: tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migr...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74696
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-22 15:45 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-24 17:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-22 15:45:13 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration

A listener's TCP_FASTOPEN max_qlen stops being accurate and lets through
far more pending Fast Open requests than it was configured for.

This only shows up with SO_REUSEPORT listener migration, where closing a
listener hands its still-pending TFO children over to a surviving one.

fastopenq.qlen is charged in tcp_fastopen_create_child() when the child
is created and uncharged in reqsk_fastopen_remove() when the handshake
completes.  The uncharge follows rsk_listener of the request the child
points at, and inet_reqsk_clone() has repointed the child at a new
request owned by the new listener, so the ++ and the -- land on two
different sockets.  The new listener's qlen drifts negative and its
limit no longer binds.

Charge the new listener during migration, like reqsk_queue_migrated()
already does for queue->young and queue->qlen.


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