[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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