[PATCH 6.12.y] tcp: clear sock_ops cb flags before force-closing a child socket

From: Miguel Gazquez (Schneider Electric)

Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 13:10:38 EST


From: Sechang Lim <rhkrqnwk98@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 990348e5bb457697c2f1f7f7b65154a3334d9d2b ]

A child socket inherits the listener's bpf_sock_ops_cb_flags via
sk_clone_lock(). If its setup fails in tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() /
tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(), the child is freed through put_and_exit, where
inet_csk_prepare_forced_close() drops the socket lock and tcp_done() runs
without it.

If BPF_SOCK_OPS_STATE_CB_FLAG was inherited, tcp_done() -> tcp_set_state()
calls tcp_call_bpf(), which expects the lock and trips sock_owned_by_me():

WARNING: include/net/sock.h:1799 at tcp_set_state+0x433/0x550
RIP: 0010:tcp_set_state+0x433/0x550 include/net/sock.h:1799
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
tcp_done+0xba/0x250 net/ipv4/tcp.c:5095
tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0x850/0xa50 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1787
tcp_check_req+0xf30/0x1360 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c:926
tcp_v4_rcv+0x1047/0x1b50 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2164
</IRQ>

The child is freed before it is ever established, so it should run no
sock_ops callback. Clear its cb flags in inet_csk_prepare_for_destroy_sock(),
the common point for the IPv4, IPv6 and chtls forced-close paths and for the
MPTCP ->syn_recv_sock() failure path (dispose_child), which reaches tcp_done()
on a child that was never established too.

Suggested-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: d44874910a26 ("bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_STATE_CB")
Signed-off-by: Sechang Lim <rhkrqnwk98@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260611092923.1895982-1-rhkrqnwk98@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Moved inet_csk_prepare_for_destroy_sock() to inet_connection_sock.c due to header dependency ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Gazquez (Schneider Electric) <miguel.gazquez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/inet_connection_sock.h | 8 +-------
include/net/tcp.h | 9 +++++++++
net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
index bcc138ff087b..534f4fafad42 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
@@ -296,14 +296,8 @@ reqsk_timeout(struct request_sock *req, unsigned long max_timeout)
return (unsigned long)min_t(u64, timeout, max_timeout);
}

-static inline void inet_csk_prepare_for_destroy_sock(struct sock *sk)
-{
- /* The below has to be done to allow calling inet_csk_destroy_sock */
- sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD);
- this_cpu_inc(*sk->sk_prot->orphan_count);
-}
-
void inet_csk_destroy_sock(struct sock *sk);
+void inet_csk_prepare_for_destroy_sock(struct sock *sk);
void inet_csk_prepare_forced_close(struct sock *sk);

/*
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 1cc25e0b3bde..c472c1cdd3b8 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -2702,6 +2702,11 @@ static inline int tcp_call_bpf_3arg(struct sock *sk, int op, u32 arg1, u32 arg2,
return tcp_call_bpf(sk, op, 3, args);
}

+static inline void tcp_clear_sock_ops_cb_flags(struct sock *sk)
+{
+ tcp_sk(sk)->bpf_sock_ops_cb_flags = 0;
+}
+
#else
static inline int tcp_call_bpf(struct sock *sk, int op, u32 nargs, u32 *args)
{
@@ -2719,6 +2724,10 @@ static inline int tcp_call_bpf_3arg(struct sock *sk, int op, u32 arg1, u32 arg2,
return -EPERM;
}

+static inline void tcp_clear_sock_ops_cb_flags(struct sock *sk)
+{
+}
+
#endif

static inline u32 tcp_timeout_init(struct sock *sk)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index 91dcdb7567ac..e0bd8e76fa78 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -1315,6 +1315,14 @@ void inet_csk_destroy_sock(struct sock *sk)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_csk_destroy_sock);

+void inet_csk_prepare_for_destroy_sock(struct sock *sk)
+{
+ /* The below has to be done to allow calling inet_csk_destroy_sock */
+ tcp_clear_sock_ops_cb_flags(sk);
+ sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD);
+ this_cpu_inc(*sk->sk_prot->orphan_count);
+}
+
/* This function allows to force a closure of a socket after the call to
* tcp/dccp_create_openreq_child().
*/

---
base-commit: 064531c7e30cd67b79c0c694ac97f00c7796f4d6
change-id: 20260907-cve-2026-74268-1e7715cc3ece

Best regards,
--
Miguel Gazquez (Schneider Electric) <miguel.gazquez@xxxxxxxxxxx>