[PATCH net] rds: tcp: unregister sysctl before tearing down listen socket

From: Cen Zhang (Microsoft)

Date: Sat Jul 18 2026 - 14:34:27 EST


rds_tcp_exit_net() frees the per-netns RDS TCP listen socket via
rds_tcp_kill_sock() before unregistering the per-netns sysctl table. Since
rds_tcp_skbuf_handler() derives the netns from rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock->sk,
a concurrent sysctl write can race with netns teardown and dereference the
freed socket/sk.

KASAN reports the race as:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rds_tcp_skbuf_handler+0x2aa/0x2e0
rds_tcp_skbuf_handler net/rds/tcp.c:721
proc_sys_call_handler fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
vfs_write fs/read_write.c
__x64_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c

Fix this by unregistering the RDS TCP sysctl table before calling
rds_tcp_kill_sock(). unregister_net_sysctl_table() prevents new sysctl
handlers from starting and waits for in-flight handlers to finish, so
the listen socket can then be released safely.

Fixes: 7f5611cbc487 ("rds: sysctl: rds_tcp_{rcv,snd}buf: avoid using current->nsproxy")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <blbllhy@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rds/tcp.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
index a1de114d5e2e..453d4077a85e 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
@@ -655,13 +655,13 @@ static void __net_exit rds_tcp_exit_net(struct net *net)
{
struct rds_tcp_net *rtn = net_generic(net, rds_tcp_netid);

- rds_tcp_kill_sock(net);
-
if (rtn->rds_tcp_sysctl)
unregister_net_sysctl_table(rtn->rds_tcp_sysctl);

if (net != &init_net)
kfree(rtn->ctl_table);
+
+ rds_tcp_kill_sock(net);
}

static struct pernet_operations rds_tcp_net_ops = {
--
2.53.0