[PATCH 1/2] rxrpc: Fix keyring reference count leak in rxrpc_setsockopt()
Anderson Nascimento
anderson at allelesecurity.com
Fri Mar 13 06:23:26 PDT 2026
In rxrpc_setsockopt(), the code checks 'rx->key' when handling the
RXRPC_SECURITY_KEYRING option. However, this appears to be a logic error.
The code should be checking 'rx->securities' to determine if a keyring
has already been defined for the socket.
Currently, if a user calls setsockopt(RXRPC_SECURITY_KEYRING) multiple
times on the same socket, the check 'if (rx->key)' fails to block
subsequent calls because 'rx->key' has not been defined by the function.
This results in a reference count leak on the keyring.
This patch changes the check to 'rx->securities' to correctly identify
if the socket security keyring has already been configured, returning -EINVAL
on subsequent attempts.
Before the patch:
It shows the keyring reference counter elevated.
$ cat /proc/keys | grep AFSkeys1
27aca8ae I--Q--- 24469721 perm 3f010000 1000 1000 keyring AFSkeys1: empty
$
After the patch:
The keyring reference counter remains stable and subsequent calls return an error:
$ ./poc
setsockopt: Invalid argument
$
Fixes: 17926a7 ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Signed-off-by: Anderson Nascimento <anderson at allelesecurity.com>
---
net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
index 0c2c68c4b07e..add72ac61f73 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static int rxrpc_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
case RXRPC_SECURITY_KEYRING:
ret = -EINVAL;
- if (rx->key)
+ if (rx->securities)
goto error;
ret = -EISCONN;
if (rx->sk.sk_state != RXRPC_UNBOUND)
--
2.53.0
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