[PATCH] af_unix: fix u->inq_len accounting in manage_oob() and unix_stream_read_skb()

[PATCH] af_unix: fix u->inq_len accounting in manage_oob() and unix_stream_read_skb()

[Hui Peng]

When an old OOB skb is replaced and discarded in manage_oob(), or when a
fully consumed OOB skb is skipped in unix_stream_read_skb(), the
discarded byte count is not subtracted from u->inq_len (or is subtracted
inconsistently), causing SIOCINQ / FIONREAD to report stale positive
byte counts on an empty AF_UNIX stream socket. Properly account
u->inq_len when dropping or skipping consumed OOB skbs.

Fixes: 314001f0bf92 ("af_unix: Add OOB support")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 42cffeafc8c1..1770af3c2684 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -2849,6 +2849,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *manage_oob(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff **last,
 		WRITE_ONCE(u->oob_skb, NULL);
 
 		if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_URGINLINE)) {
+			WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - 1);
 			__skb_unlink(skb, &sk->sk_receive_queue);
 			unread_skb = skb;
 			skb = skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
@@ -2884,6 +2885,7 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
 		return err;
 
 	mutex_lock(&u->iolock);
+again:
 	spin_lock(&queue->lock);
 
 	skb = __skb_dequeue(queue);
@@ -2893,6 +2895,12 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
 
+	if (!unix_skb_len(skb)) {
+		spin_unlock(&queue->lock);
+		consume_skb(skb);
+		goto again;
+	}
+
 	WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - unix_skb_len(skb));
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AF_UNIX_OOB)
@@ -2908,6 +2916,11 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
 
 	spin_unlock(&queue->lock);
 
+	if (UNIXCB(skb).consumed) {
+		skb_pull(skb, UNIXCB(skb).consumed);
+		UNIXCB(skb).consumed = 0;
+	}
+
 	unix_orphan_scm(sk, skb);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&u->iolock);

Re: [PATCH] af_unix: fix u->inq_len accounting in manage_oob() and unix_stream_read_skb()

[Kuniyuki Iwashima]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When an old OOB skb is replaced and discarded in manage_oob(), or when a
> fully consumed OOB skb is skipped in unix_stream_read_skb(), the
> discarded byte count is not subtracted from u->inq_len (or is subtracted
> inconsistently), causing SIOCINQ / FIONREAD to report stale positive
> byte counts on an empty AF_UNIX stream socket. Properly account
> u->inq_len when dropping or skipping consumed OOB skbs.
>
> Fixes: 314001f0bf92 ("af_unix: Add OOB support")
> Assisted-by: LLM

Please tell your LLM not to mix different fixes into one.

btw I'm tempted to remove OOB support entirely.

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- [Critical] Kernel BUG() (oops/panic) in the sockmap read path: the
  newly added `skb_pull(skb, UNIXCB(skb).consumed)` in…
- [Medium] Commit message does not match the code, and two of the three
  hunks are unrelated to inq_len accounting (scope creep).
- [Medium] Incorrect Fixes tag / wrong bug attribution.
- [Medium] Unbalanced SCM_RIGHTS accounting on the new early-drop path in
  `unix_stream_read_skb()`: the added block frees the dequeued skb with…

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af_unix: fix u->inq_len accounting in manage_oob() and unix_stream_read_skb()

This adds a u->inq_len decrement when manage_oob() discards a replaced OOB
skb, makes unix_stream_read_skb() skip and free fully consumed skbs, and
pulls the already consumed prefix out of the skb before handing it to the
recv_actor.  No Link: tags are present in the commit header.

A few questions on the changelog and on the two new blocks in
unix_stream_read_skb().

> When an old OOB skb is replaced and discarded in manage_oob(), or when a
> fully consumed OOB skb is skipped in unix_stream_read_skb(), the
> discarded byte count is not subtracted from u->inq_len (or is subtracted
> inconsistently), causing SIOCINQ / FIONREAD to report stale positive
> byte counts on an empty AF_UNIX stream socket.

[Severity: Medium]
Is the unix_stream_read_skb() half of this description accurate?

unix_skb_len() is:

    static unsigned int unix_skb_len(const struct sk_buff *skb)
    {
    	return skb->len - UNIXCB(skb).consumed;
    }

so a fully consumed skb contributes 0 bytes, and the pre-existing
subtraction already in that function:

    WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - unix_skb_len(skb));

subtracts exactly 0 for it.  The bytes were already removed either by the
partial read in unix_stream_read_generic():

    WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - chunk);

or by unix_stream_recv_urg():

    WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - 1);

Can a fully consumed skb still hold un-accounted bytes in this path?

The new !unix_skb_len(skb) block contains no inq_len update at all, and the
new skb_pull() block is not mentioned in the changelog.  Both change what
the ->read_skb() (BPF sockmap) consumer sees: one stops delivery of a
zero-payload skb, the other stops re-delivering already consumed bytes.
Could those two changes be split out with their own justification, so that
this patch only carries the manage_oob() accounting fix?

> Fixes: 314001f0bf92 ("af_unix: Add OOB support")

[Severity: Medium]
Is this the right Fixes target?  u->inq_len does not exist at that commit;
blame on include/net/af_unix.h attributes

    int			inq_len;

to f4e1fb04c1238 ("af_unix: Use cached value for SOCK_STREAM in
unix_inq_len().").  Before that, unix_inq_len() walked the receive queue:

    skb_queue_walk(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb)
    	amount += unix_skb_len(skb);

so a discarded OOB skb could not leave a stale count behind.  f4e1fb04c1238
added the inq_len increment in queue_oob() and the decrement in
unix_stream_recv_urg(), but not the manage_oob() discard decrement this
patch adds.  Should the tag point at f4e1fb04c1238 instead, and should the
patch carry Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org given it claims a user-visible
SIOCINQ/FIONREAD fix?

> diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> index 42cffeafc8c1..1770af3c2684 100644
> --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
> +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> @@ -2849,6 +2849,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *manage_oob(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff **last,
>  		WRITE_ONCE(u->oob_skb, NULL);
>  
>  		if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_URGINLINE)) {
> +			WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - 1);
>  			__skb_unlink(skb, &sk->sk_receive_queue);
>  			unread_skb = skb;
>  			skb = skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
> @@ -2884,6 +2885,7 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
>  		return err;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&u->iolock);
> +again:
>  	spin_lock(&queue->lock);
>  
>  	skb = __skb_dequeue(queue);
> @@ -2893,6 +2895,12 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
>  		return -EAGAIN;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (!unix_skb_len(skb)) {
> +		spin_unlock(&queue->lock);
> +		consume_skb(skb);
> +		goto again;
> +	}
> +

[Severity: Medium]
Does this new discard path leave u->scm_stat.nr_fds inflated?

The normal exit of unix_stream_read_skb() goes through:

    static void unix_orphan_scm(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
    {
    	scm_stat_del(sk, skb);
    	unix_destruct_scm(skb);
    	skb->destructor = sock_wfree;
    }

and scm_stat_del() is the only place that decrements nr_fds:

    if (unlikely(fp && fp->count)) {
    	atomic_sub(fp->count, &u->scm_stat.nr_fds);
    	unix_del_edges(fp);
    }

The bare consume_skb() here goes through the destructor chain
unix_wfree() -> unix_destruct_scm() -> unix_detach_fds(), which releases the
files but never touches scm_stat.nr_fds.

A reachable input looks like: sendmsg(MSG_OOB) with SCM_RIGHTS, where
queue_oob() attaches the fds and calls scm_stat_add(other, skb); then a
recvmsg(MSG_OOB) without MSG_PEEK in unix_stream_recv_urg() does

    if (!(state->flags & MSG_PEEK))
    	UNIXCB(oob_skb).consumed += 1;

leaving a queued zero-payload skb that still carries UNIXCB(skb).fp.  When
that skb reaches the head of the queue on a sockmap'd socket, the new branch
frees it without scm_stat_del(), so unix_show_fdinfo() keeps reporting an
inflated scm_fds for the life of the socket.  Would calling
unix_orphan_scm(sk, skb) (or at least scm_stat_del()) before freeing keep
the accounting balanced?

>  	WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - unix_skb_len(skb));
>  
>  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AF_UNIX_OOB)
> @@ -2908,6 +2916,11 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
>  
>  	spin_unlock(&queue->lock);
>  
> +	if (UNIXCB(skb).consumed) {
> +		skb_pull(skb, UNIXCB(skb).consumed);
> +		UNIXCB(skb).consumed = 0;
> +	}
> +

[Severity: Critical]
Can this skb_pull() hit the BUG() in __skb_pull() on a paged skb?

UNIXCB(skb).consumed is a logical stream offset, not bounded by
skb_headlen(skb).  unix_stream_sendmsg() routinely builds non-linear skbs:

    data_len = max_t(int, 0, size - SKB_MAX_HEAD(0));
    ...
    skb = sock_alloc_send_pskb(sk, size - data_len, data_len, ...);

and on the MSG_SPLICE_PAGES branch the head length is 0.

unix_stream_read_generic() then advances consumed and deliberately leaves
the skb queued while any payload remains:

    UNIXCB(skb).consumed += chunk;
    ...
    if (unix_skb_len(skb)) {
    	spin_unlock(&sk->sk_receive_queue.lock);
    	break;
    }

skb_pull() only rejects len > skb->len; __skb_pull() then does:

    skb->len -= len;
    if (unlikely(skb->len < skb->data_len)) {
    	...
    	BUG();
    }

So a peer writing more than SKB_MAX_HEAD(0) bytes (or splicing pages, where
a single consumed byte is enough), a reader consuming a prefix past the
linear head with a normal recvmsg(), and then further data arriving on a
socket with a sockmap verdict program gives
sk_psock_verdict_data_ready() -> ops->read_skb() -> unix_stream_read_skb() ->
skb_pull() -> BUG().

The BUG() fires after spin_unlock(&queue->lock) but before
mutex_unlock(&u->iolock), so the task dies holding u->iolock and further
readers and MSG_OOB users of that socket block forever; the skb is already
dequeued and u->inq_len already decremented.

If already consumed bytes need to be hidden from the recv_actor, would a
paged-safe form such as pskb_pull()/__pskb_pull_tail() with failure handling,
or passing the offset to the actor, be more appropriate here?

>  	unix_orphan_scm(sk, skb);
>  
>  	mutex_unlock(&u->iolock);

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[PATCH net v2 1/2] af_unix: decrement u->inq_len when skipping unread OOB skb in manage_oob()

[Hui Peng]

When a normal in-band read on an AF_UNIX stream socket (without MSG_PEEK
and without SO_OOBINLINE) encounters an unread u->oob_skb in manage_oob(),
manage_oob() clears u->oob_skb, unlinks the 1-byte skb from
sk->sk_receive_queue, and drops it with SKB_DROP_REASON_UNIX_SKIP_OOB
without decrementing u->inq_len. Because queue_oob() incremented
u->inq_len by 1 when queuing the OOB skb, u->inq_len remains permanently
inflated by 1 byte for each skipped unread OOB skb, causing SIOCINQ /
FIONREAD to report a stale positive byte count on an empty socket.

Decrement u->inq_len by 1 when unlinking the unread OOB skb in
manage_oob().

Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by sending three 1-byte MSG_OOB
packets interleaved with normal stream data on an AF_UNIX SOCK_STREAM
socketpair and draining all in-band data via recv(): on the unfixed
kernel, ioctl(SIOCINQ) reports 3 on the empty socket; with this patch
applied, ioctl(SIOCINQ) reports 0.

Fixes: f4e1fb04c123 ("af_unix: Use cached value for SOCK_STREAM in unix_inq_len().")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Split the manage_oob() and unix_stream_read_skb() fixes into a 2-patch
  series as requested by Kuniyuki Iwashima.
- Update Fixes: tag to f4e1fb04c123 ("af_unix: Use cached value for
  SOCK_STREAM in unix_inq_len().") and clarify the commit message as
  noted by Sashiko.

 net/unix/af_unix.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 42cffeafc8c1..1770af3c2684 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -2849,6 +2849,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *manage_oob(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff **last,
 		WRITE_ONCE(u->oob_skb, NULL);
 
 		if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_URGINLINE)) {
+			WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - 1);
 			__skb_unlink(skb, &sk->sk_receive_queue);
 			unread_skb = skb;
 			skb = skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
-- 
2.49.0

[PATCH net v2 2/2] af_unix: skip consumed OOB skb and pull consumed bytes in unix_stream_read_skb()

[Hui Peng]

When an OOB byte is consumed via recv(MSG_OOB) in unix_stream_recv_urg(),
u->oob_skb is cleared to NULL and UNIXCB(oob_skb).consumed is incremented
to 1, but oob_skb remains on sk->sk_receive_queue (with unix_skb_len(skb)
== 0) to preserve the OOB mark until normal reads advance past it.
Similarly, a partial recv() in unix_stream_read_generic() advances
UNIXCB(skb).consumed without pulling the skb header and leaves the
partially consumed skb at the head of sk->sk_receive_queue.

If the socket is subsequently read via unix_stream_read_skb() (used by
BPF sockmap), unix_stream_read_skb() only checks skb == u->oob_skb
(which is only true for an unconsumed OOB skb) and ignores
UNIXCB(skb).consumed. As a result, a consumed OOB skb (unix_skb_len(skb)
== 0) is handed to recv_actor() and re-delivers the already consumed OOB
byte, and a partially consumed skb re-delivers its already consumed
prefix.

In unix_stream_read_skb(), skip and free zero-length consumed skbs (after
calling unix_orphan_scm() so SCM_RIGHTS fd accounting remains balanced)
and pull UNIXCB(skb).consumed bytes via pskb_pull() (which safely handles
both linear and non-linear paged skbs) before invoking recv_actor().

Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 with BPF_MAP_TYPE_SOCKMAP and a
BPF_SK_SKB_STREAM_VERDICT program:
1. Consuming a 1-byte MSG_OOB packet ("Z") before inserting the socket
   into sockmap and sending "HELLO" re-delivers "ZHELLO" on the unfixed
   kernel, whereas with this patch applied recv() receives "HELLO!".
2. Consuming a 3-byte prefix ("123") of "12345678" before inserting the
   socket into sockmap re-delivers "12345678" on the unfixed kernel,
   whereas with this patch applied recv() receives "45678".

Fixes: 77462de14a43 ("af_unix: Add read_sock for stream socket types")
Fixes: 314001f0bf92 ("af_unix: Add OOB support")
Fixes: 638f32604385 ("af_unix: Disable MSG_OOB handling for sockets in sockmap/sockhash")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Split out from the manage_oob() fix into patch 2/2 as requested by
  Kuniyuki Iwashima.
- Call unix_orphan_scm(sk, skb) before consume_skb(skb) when dropping a
  zero-length consumed skb so u->scm_stat.nr_fds is decremented, and use
  pskb_pull() instead of skb_pull() to safely handle non-linear paged
  skbs without hitting BUG() in __skb_pull(), as noted by Sashiko.

 net/unix/af_unix.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 1770af3c2684..f5d64e7b5c1c 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -2885,6 +2885,7 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
 		return err;
 
 	mutex_lock(&u->iolock);
+again:
 	spin_lock(&queue->lock);
 
 	skb = __skb_dequeue(queue);
@@ -2894,6 +2895,13 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
 
+	if (!unix_skb_len(skb)) {
+		spin_unlock(&queue->lock);
+		unix_orphan_scm(sk, skb);
+		consume_skb(skb);
+		goto again;
+	}
+
 	WRITE_ONCE(u->inq_len, u->inq_len - unix_skb_len(skb));
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AF_UNIX_OOB)
@@ -2913,6 +2921,14 @@ static int unix_stream_read_skb(struct sock *sk, skb_read_actor_t recv_actor)
 
 	mutex_unlock(&u->iolock);
 
+	if (UNIXCB(skb).consumed) {
+		if (!pskb_pull(skb, UNIXCB(skb).consumed)) {
+			kfree_skb(skb);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
+		UNIXCB(skb).consumed = 0;
+	}
+
 	return recv_actor(sk, skb);
 }
 
-- 
2.49.0