[PATCH net v2 4/6] rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare RESPONSE packets

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Apr 22 09:14:33 PDT 2026


The security operations that verify the RESPONSE packets decrypt bits of it
in place - however, the sk_buff may be shared with a packet sniffer, which
would lead to the sniffer seeing an apparently corrupt packet (actually
decrypted).

Fix this by handing a copy of the packet off to the specific security
handler if the packet was cloned.

Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
cc: stable at kernel.org
---
 net/rxrpc/conn_event.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c b/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
index 9a41ec708aeb..aee977291d90 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
@@ -240,6 +240,33 @@ static void rxrpc_call_is_secure(struct rxrpc_call *call)
 		rxrpc_notify_socket(call);
 }
 
+static int rxrpc_verify_response(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
+				 struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	if (skb_cloned(skb)) {
+		/* Copy the packet if shared so that we can do in-place
+		 * decryption.
+		 */
+		struct sk_buff *nskb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_NOFS);
+
+		if (nskb) {
+			rxrpc_new_skb(nskb, rxrpc_skb_new_unshared);
+			ret = conn->security->verify_response(conn, nskb);
+			rxrpc_free_skb(nskb, rxrpc_skb_put_response_copy);
+		} else {
+			/* OOM - Drop the packet. */
+			rxrpc_see_skb(skb, rxrpc_skb_see_unshare_nomem);
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+		}
+	} else {
+		ret = conn->security->verify_response(conn, skb);
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * connection-level Rx packet processor
  */
@@ -270,7 +297,7 @@ static int rxrpc_process_event(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 		}
 		spin_unlock_irq(&conn->state_lock);
 
-		ret = conn->security->verify_response(conn, skb);
+		ret = rxrpc_verify_response(conn, skb);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			return ret;
 




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