{"id":"CVE-2026-74257","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"sockmap: Fix use-after-free in udp_bpf_recvmsg()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsockmap: Fix use-after-free in udp_bpf_recvmsg()\n\nsyzbot reported use-after-free of struct sk_msg in sk_msg_recvmsg(). [0]\n\nsk_msg_recvmsg() peeks sk_msg from psock->ingress_msg under a lock,\nbut its processing is lockless.\n\nThus, sk_msg_recvmsg() must be serialised by callers, otherwise\nmultiple threads could touch the same sk_msg.\n\nFor example, TCP uses lock_sock(), and AF_UNIX uses unix_sk(sk)->iolock.\n\nInitially, udp_bpf_recvmsg() had used lock_sock(), but the cited\ncommit removed it.\n\nLet's serialise sk_msg_recvmsg() with lock_sock() in udp_bpf_recvmsg().\n\nNote that holding spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_receive_queue.lock) is not\nan option due to copy_page_to_iter() in sk_msg_recvmsg().\n\n[0]:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_msg_recvmsg+0xb54/0xc30 net/core/skmsg.c:428\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff88814cdcf000 by task syz.0.24/6020\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6020 Comm: syz.0.24 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/13/2026\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n 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89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48\nRSP: 002b:00007fb31ad97028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012b\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb31a216090 RCX: 00007fb319f9aeb9\nRDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000200000000400 RDI: 0000000000000004\nRBP: 00007fb31a008c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000040000021 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 00007fb31a216128 R14: 00007fb31a216090 R15: 00007ffe21dd0a98\n </TASK>\n\nAllocated by task 6019:\n kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]\n kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78\n poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415\n kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3d1/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:5780\n kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]\n kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]\n alloc_sk_msg 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[0]\n\nsk_msg_recvmsg() peeks sk_msg from psock->ingress_msg under a lock,\nbut its processing is lockless.\n\nThus, sk_msg_recvmsg() must be serialised by callers, otherwise\nmultiple threads could touch the same sk_msg.\n\nFor example, TCP uses lock_sock(), and AF_UNIX uses unix_sk(sk)->iolock.\n\nInitially, udp_bpf_recvmsg() had used lock_sock(), but the cited\ncommit removed it.\n\nLet's serialise sk_msg_recvmsg() with lock_sock() in udp_bpf_recvmsg().\n\nNote that holding spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_receive_queue.lock) is not\nan option due to copy_page_to_iter() in sk_msg_recvmsg().\n\n[0]:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_msg_recvmsg+0xb54/0xc30 net/core/skmsg.c:428\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff88814cdcf000 by task syz.0.24/6020\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6020 Comm: syz.0.24 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/13/2026\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n 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