[PATCH net-next v2 1/2] tls: annotate lockless access to sk->sk_err
From: Quanye Yang via B4 Relay
Date: Sun Oct 04 2026 - 00:45:37 EST
From: Quanye Yang <quanyeyang@xxxxxxxxx>
kTLS sits on the same struct sock as TCP. do_recvmmsg() and
getsockopt(SO_ERROR) still call sock_error() without the socket lock
and clear sk_err with xchg().
tls_rx_rec_wait() already peeks when data has been copied and consumes
otherwise, but the outer if (sk_err) is an unmarked load. On the
no-data path that check-then-sock_error() window can return 0 after
another thread consumes the error. Call sock_error() once and only
return when it is non-zero; keep READ_ONCE() on the peek path.
tls_sw_sendmsg_locked(), tls_push_data(), bpf_exec_tx_verdict() and
tls_encrypt_done() read sk_err more than once. Fold those unmarked loads
into one READ_ONCE() and use that value as the returned errno. The field is
still not consumed there.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/3d9d442f-f168-43da-87b0-010ad5a78365@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Quanye Yang <quanyeyang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/tls/tls_device.c | 5 +++--
net/tls/tls_sw.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/tls/tls_device.c b/net/tls/tls_device.c
index f11d0528fc43..03ce83a9d4e9 100644
--- a/net/tls/tls_device.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_device.c
@@ -444,8 +444,9 @@ static int tls_push_data(struct sock *sk,
if ((flags & (MSG_MORE | MSG_EOR)) == (MSG_MORE | MSG_EOR))
return -EINVAL;
- if (unlikely(sk->sk_err))
- return -sk->sk_err;
+ rc = -READ_ONCE(sk->sk_err);
+ if (unlikely(rc))
+ return rc;
flags |= MSG_SENDPAGE_DECRYPTED;
tls_push_record_flags = flags | MSG_MORE;
diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
index d1ad31986cf2..d85d0c1ff546 100644
--- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
@@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ static void tls_encrypt_done(void *data, int err)
struct scatterlist *sge;
struct sk_msg *msg_en;
struct sock *sk;
+ int skerr;
if (err == -EINPROGRESS) /* see the comment in tls_decrypt_done() */
return;
@@ -488,13 +489,15 @@ static void tls_encrypt_done(void *data, int err)
sge->offset -= prot->prepend_size;
sge->length += prot->prepend_size;
+ skerr = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_err);
+
/* Check if error is previously set on socket */
- if (err || sk->sk_err) {
+ if (err || skerr) {
rec = NULL;
/* If err is already set on socket, return the same code */
- if (sk->sk_err) {
- ctx->async_wait.err = -sk->sk_err;
+ if (skerr) {
+ ctx->async_wait.err = -skerr;
} else {
ctx->async_wait.err = err;
tls_err_abort(sk, err);
@@ -704,10 +707,14 @@ static int bpf_exec_tx_verdict(struct sk_msg *msg, struct sock *sk,
int err;
err = tls_push_record(sk, flags, record_type);
- if (err && err != -EINPROGRESS && sk->sk_err == EBADMSG) {
- *copied -= sk_msg_free(sk, msg);
- tls_free_open_rec(sk);
- err = -sk->sk_err;
+ if (err && err != -EINPROGRESS) {
+ int skerr = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_err);
+
+ if (skerr == EBADMSG) {
+ *copied -= sk_msg_free(sk, msg);
+ tls_free_open_rec(sk);
+ err = -skerr;
+ }
}
return err;
}
@@ -800,10 +807,9 @@ static int tls_sw_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
}
while (msg_data_left(msg)) {
- if (sk->sk_err) {
- ret = -sk->sk_err;
+ ret = -READ_ONCE(sk->sk_err);
+ if (ret)
goto send_end;
- }
if (ctx->open_rec)
rec = ctx->open_rec;
@@ -1107,10 +1113,16 @@ tls_rx_rec_wait(struct sock *sk, bool nonblock, bool released, bool has_copied)
timeo = sock_rcvtimeo(sk, nonblock);
while (!tls_strp_msg_ready(ctx)) {
- if (sk->sk_err) {
- if (has_copied)
- return -READ_ONCE(sk->sk_err);
- return sock_error(sk);
+ if (has_copied) {
+ int err = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_err);
+
+ if (err)
+ return -err;
+ } else {
+ int err = sock_error(sk);
+
+ if (err)
+ return err;
}
if (ret < 0)
@@ -1132,10 +1144,16 @@ tls_rx_rec_wait(struct sock *sk, bool nonblock, bool released, bool has_copied)
* sk_err here so a connection abort surfaces as the
* actual error rather than a clean EOF.
*/
- if (sk->sk_err) {
- if (has_copied)
- return -READ_ONCE(sk->sk_err);
- return sock_error(sk);
+ if (has_copied) {
+ int err = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_err);
+
+ if (err)
+ return -err;
+ } else {
+ int err = sock_error(sk);
+
+ if (err)
+ return err;
}
if (sk->sk_shutdown & RCV_SHUTDOWN)
return 0;
--
2.55.0