[PATCH 1/2] rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare RESPONSE packets
Wentao Guan
guanwentao at uniontech.com
Tue May 12 08:21:23 PDT 2026
From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
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: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: stable at kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-5-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 24481a7f573305706054c59e275371f8d0fe919f)
Signed-off-by: Wentao Guan <guanwentao at uniontech.com>
---
NOTE:
Pls apply these pathes after commit in stable queue like:
(HEAD -> for-stable-queue) rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present
rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare RESPONSE packets
(refs/patches/for-stable-queue/rxrpc-fix-rxrpc_input_call_event-to-only-unshare-dat.patch)
Subject: rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_input_call_event() to only unshare DATA packets
---
---
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 82cc72123c9c9..6dcfaed1f7485 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
@@ -226,6 +226,33 @@ 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
*/
@@ -253,7 +280,7 @@ static int rxrpc_process_event(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
}
spin_unlock(&conn->state_lock);
- ret = conn->security->verify_response(conn, skb);
+ ret = rxrpc_verify_response(conn, skb);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
--
2.30.2
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