[PATCH v2 2/2] net: sctp: auth: Fix safety issue when skb_clone fails in auth_chunk handling
luoqing <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:04:07 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-sctp,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
From: luoqing <[email protected]> When processing AUTH + COOKIE-ECHO packets, if skb_clone fails due to memory pressure, chunk->auth_chunk is set to NULL but chunk->auth is still set to 1. This causes sctp_auth_chunk_verify to skip the AUTH validation (since auth_chunk is NULL), allowing unauthenticated COOKIE-ECHO packets to be accepted. Fix this by only setting chunk->auth = 1 when skb_clone succeeds. Fixes: 59d8d4434f429b ("sctp: delay the authentication for the duplicated cookie-echo chunk") Signed-off-by: luoqing <[email protected]> --- net/sctp/associola.c | 3 ++- net/sctp/endpointola.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c index 62d3cc155809..e54068305396 100644 --- a/net/sctp/associola.c +++ b/net/sctp/associola.c @@ -999,7 +999,8 @@ static void sctp_assoc_bh_rcv(struct work_struct *work) if (next_hdr->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ECHO) { chunk->auth_chunk = skb_clone(chunk->skb, GFP_ATOMIC); - chunk->auth = 1; + if (chunk->auth_chunk) + chunk->auth = 1; continue; } } diff --git a/net/sctp/endpointola.c b/net/sctp/endpointola.c index dfb1719275db..3419748c66bc 100644 --- a/net/sctp/endpointola.c +++ b/net/sctp/endpointola.c @@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ static void sctp_endpoint_bh_rcv(struct work_struct *work) if (next_hdr->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ECHO) { chunk->auth_chunk = skb_clone(chunk->skb, GFP_ATOMIC); - chunk->auth = 1; + if (chunk->auth_chunk) + chunk->auth = 1; continue; } } -- 2.25.1