[PATCH net-next v2 1/7] af_iucv: take socket lock around SO_MSGSIZE getsockopt
Breno Leitao <[email protected]> Fri, 15 May 2026 01:32:25 -0700
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.oe-linux-nfc,org.kernel.vger.bpf,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-s390,org.kernel.vger.netdev |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Mirror the locking used by the SO_MSGLIMIT case directly above: take lock_sock() before reading iucv->hs_dev and dereferencing hs_dev->mtu, and release it afterwards. This keeps the two adjacent getsockopt arms consistent and matches the lock held by iucv_sock_close() when it clears hs_dev. This is not an exploitable bug. iucv_sock_close() is the only writer of iucv->hs_dev and only runs from the protocol release callback, which the socket layer invokes after the last file reference drops. The getsockopt() syscall holds an fd reference for its entire duration via fdget()/fdput(), so iucv_sock_close() cannot run concurrently with the SO_MSGSIZE read on the same socket. There is no other writer of hs_dev, and the aligned pointer load cannot tear on any architecture Linux supports, so the existing code cannot observe a NULL dereference or use-after-free in practice. The change is purely defensive: making the locking pattern uniform across the function avoids surprising the next reader and removes a foot-gun should the close path ever grow a new caller that does not hold the fd reference. Note: For the reason above, it doesn't contain a "Fixes" tag, and is aiming at net-next instead of net. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]> --- net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/iucv/af_iucv.c b/net/iucv/af_iucv.c index 72dfccd4e3d58..3dd11d7a967c8 100644 --- a/net/iucv/af_iucv.c +++ b/net/iucv/af_iucv.c @@ -1566,9 +1566,11 @@ static int iucv_sock_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, case SO_MSGSIZE: if (sk->sk_state == IUCV_OPEN) return -EBADFD; + lock_sock(sk); val = (iucv->hs_dev) ? iucv->hs_dev->mtu - sizeof(struct af_iucv_trans_hdr) - ETH_HLEN : 0x7fffffff; + release_sock(sk); break; default: return -ENOPROTOOPT; -- 2.53.0-Meta