[PATCH] bpf, sockmap: Fix cork use-after-free in tcp_bpf_sendmsg()

From: Chengfeng Ye

Date: Sun Jul 19 2026 - 12:17:07 EST


tcp_bpf_sendmsg() keeps msg_tx across sk_stream_wait_memory(), which
drops and reacquires the socket lock. Its error path tries to decide
whether msg_tx names the local temporary message by comparing it with
the current value of psock->cork.

This comparison is unsafe when two threads send on the same socket:

Thread A Thread B
msg_tx = psock->cork
sk_msg_alloc() fails
sk_stream_wait_memory()
releases the socket lock acquires the socket lock
completes the cork
psock->cork = NULL
frees the cork
reacquires the socket lock
msg_tx != psock->cork
sk_msg_free(msg_tx)

The stale cork is therefore mistaken for the local temporary message
and freed again. KASAN reported:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_msg_free+0x49/0x50
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810c908800 by task poc/90
Call Trace:
sk_msg_free+0x49/0x50
tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x14f5/0x1cc0
__sys_sendto+0x32c/0x3a0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xdb/0x1b0
Allocated by task 89:
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x16b3/0x1cc0
Freed by task 91:
__kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
kfree+0x131/0x3c0
tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0xec3/0x1cc0

msg_tx can only name the stack-local tmp or the shared cork. Test for
tmp directly so a changed psock->cork cannot turn a shared message into
an apparent local one.

Fixes: 604326b41a6f ("bpf, sockmap: convert to generic sk_msg interface")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c
index 8e905b50dead..a30475afb6f8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ static int tcp_bpf_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
wait_for_memory:
err = sk_stream_wait_memory(sk, &timeo);
if (err) {
- if (msg_tx && msg_tx != psock->cork)
+ if (msg_tx == &tmp)
sk_msg_free(sk, msg_tx);
goto out_err;
}
--
2.43.0