[PATCH net-next v12 1/6] tls: Avoid evaluating freed skb in tls_sw_read_sock() loop

Chuck Lever <[email protected]> Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:48:24 -0400
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.kernel-tls-handshake,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>

tls_sw_read_sock() ends its receive loop with while (skb), but
the else branch in the body calls consume_skb(skb) before the
predicate is re-evaluated. A pointer becomes indeterminate when
the object it points to reaches end-of-lifetime (C2011 6.2.4p2),
and using an indeterminate value is undefined behavior (Annex
J.2). The pointer is not dereferenced today -- the predicate
either exits the loop or skb is overwritten at the top of the
next iteration -- but any future change that adds a dereference
between consume_skb() and the predicate would silently introduce
a use-after-free.

Replace the do/while form with an explicit for(;;) loop so
termination happens through a break statement rather than
predicate evaluation of a freed pointer.

Cc: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]>
---
 net/tls/tls_sw.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
index 964ebc268ee4..8e4e57721335 100644
--- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
@@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ int tls_sw_read_sock(struct sock *sk, read_descriptor_t *desc,
 		goto read_sock_end;
 
 	decrypted = 0;
-	do {
+	for (;;) {
 		if (!skb_queue_empty(&ctx->rx_list)) {
 			skb = __skb_dequeue(&ctx->rx_list);
 			rxm = strp_msg(skb);
@@ -2435,9 +2435,9 @@ int tls_sw_read_sock(struct sock *sk, read_descriptor_t *desc,
 		} else {
 			consume_skb(skb);
 			if (!desc->count)
-				skb = NULL;
+				break;
 		}
-	} while (skb);
+	}
 
 read_sock_end:
 	tls_rx_reader_release(sk, ctx);

-- 
2.54.0