* [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: fix shift-out-of-bounds in SYN-ACK retransmit timers
@ 2026-10-23 6:49 Jiayuan Chen
2026-10-23 6:49 ` [PATCH net 2/2] tcp: fix shift-out-of-bounds in inet_csk_rto_backoff() Jiayuan Chen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jiayuan Chen @ 2026-10-23 6:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: Jiayuan Chen, stable, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet,
Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, Jonathan Corbet,
Shuah Khan, Randy Dunlap, Neal Cardwell, Kuniyuki Iwashima,
linux-doc, linux-kernel
tcp_synack_retries is a u8 sysctl with no upper bound (0..255), and
TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT can derive a comparable count. Both feed the
max_retries / max_syn_ack_retries that decide how long a request_sock
keeps retransmitting SYN-ACKs. req->num_timeout is bumped on every
SYN-ACK timeout and then used as a shift amount:
/* tcp_reqsk_timeout() */
u64 timeout = (u64)req->timeout << req->num_timeout;
/* tcp_fastopen_synack_timer() */
req->timeout << req->num_timeout
Set tcp_synack_retries high enough and num_timeout climbs past the width
of the shifted type, which is UB:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in ./include/net/tcp.h:917:34
shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'long long unsigned int'
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xc1/0xf0
dump_stack+0x10/0x20
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1d1/0x390
reqsk_timer_handler.cold+0x1c/0x5d
call_timer_fn+0x17d/0x510
__run_timers+0x662/0xab0
run_timer_softirq+0xdf/0x260
handle_softirqs+0x204/0x9b0
__irq_exit_rcu+0x13c/0x220
irq_exit_rcu+0xe/0x20
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x40/0xd0
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20
num_timeout is also a 7-bit field (max 127). Once max_retries goes above
127 the "num_timeout >= max_retries" expiry check can never be true, so
the reqsk keeps retransmitting SYN-ACKs and never gives up.
Leave the one-byte sysctl range alone and fix both in the consumers:
- bound the shift amount in tcp_reqsk_timeout_sk(). The result is
clamped to tcp_rto_max() anyway and a num_timeout well under 30
already saturates that, so capping the shift at 30 changes no
reachable behaviour and drops the UB.
- cap max_retries / max_syn_ack_retries at MAX_TCP_SYNACK_RETRIES (127,
the num_timeout field width) so the reqsk can actually expire.
- route the TFO path through the same bounded helper.
Fixes: e6c022a4fa2d ("tcp: better retrans tracking for defer-accept")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 4 +++-
include/net/tcp.h | 16 ++++++++++++----
net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 2 ++
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 3 ++-
5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 4b19c8d3efda..eac33072be2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -956,7 +956,9 @@ tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
- be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
+ be retransmitted. The sysctl accepts 0-255, but values above 127 are
+ silently capped by the SYN-ACK timers to match the 7-bit
+ request_sock::num_timeout field. Default value
is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 0265c27a5fd7..986b7ea05e4a 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ static_assert((1 << ATO_BITS) > TCP_DELACK_MAX);
#define MAX_TCP_KEEPINTVL 32767
#define MAX_TCP_KEEPCNT 127
#define MAX_TCP_SYNCNT 127
+/* request_sock::num_timeout is a 7-bit field. */
+#define MAX_TCP_SYNACK_RETRIES 127
/* Ensure that TCP PAWS checks are relaxed after ~2147 seconds
* to avoid overflows. This assumes a clock smaller than 1 Mhz.
@@ -912,12 +914,18 @@ static inline u32 __tcp_set_rto(const struct tcp_sock *tp)
return usecs_to_jiffies((tp->srtt_us >> 3) + tp->rttvar_us);
}
-static inline unsigned long tcp_reqsk_timeout(struct request_sock *req)
+static inline unsigned long tcp_reqsk_timeout_sk(const struct sock *sk,
+ const struct request_sock *req)
{
- u64 timeout = (u64)req->timeout << req->num_timeout;
+ u64 timeout = (u64)READ_ONCE(req->timeout) <<
+ min_t(u8, req->num_timeout, 30);
+
+ return (unsigned long)min_t(u64, timeout, tcp_rto_max(sk));
+}
- return (unsigned long)min_t(u64, timeout,
- tcp_rto_max(req->rsk_listener));
+static inline unsigned long tcp_reqsk_timeout(struct request_sock *req)
+{
+ return tcp_reqsk_timeout_sk(req->rsk_listener, req);
}
u32 tcp_delack_max(const struct sock *sk);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index 8151c638a24c..ee7b64f3141c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -1072,6 +1072,8 @@ static void reqsk_timer_handler(struct timer_list *t)
net = sock_net(sk_listener);
max_syn_ack_retries = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_syn_retries) ? :
READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_synack_retries);
+ max_syn_ack_retries = min_t(int, max_syn_ack_retries,
+ MAX_TCP_SYNACK_RETRIES);
/* Normally all the openreqs are young and become mature
* (i.e. converted to established socket) for first timeout.
* If synack was not acknowledged for 1 second, it means
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 99d7237a623d..a309fd45ad42 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static u8 secs_to_retrans(int seconds, int timeout, int rto_max)
int period = timeout;
res = 1;
- while (seconds > period && res < 255) {
+ while (seconds > period && res < MAX_TCP_SYNACK_RETRIES) {
res++;
timeout <<= 1;
if (timeout > rto_max)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index e56eae4bc341..f7b100334a89 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ static void tcp_fastopen_synack_timer(struct sock *sk, struct request_sock *req)
*/
max_retries = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_syn_retries) ? :
READ_ONCE(sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_synack_retries) + 1;
+ max_retries = min_t(int, max_retries, MAX_TCP_SYNACK_RETRIES);
if (req->num_timeout >= max_retries) {
tcp_write_err(sk);
@@ -490,7 +491,7 @@ static void tcp_fastopen_synack_timer(struct sock *sk, struct request_sock *req)
if (!tp->retrans_stamp)
tp->retrans_stamp = tcp_time_stamp_ts(tp);
tcp_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS,
- req->timeout << req->num_timeout, false);
+ tcp_reqsk_timeout_sk(sk, req), false);
}
static bool tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out(const struct sock *sk,
--
2.43.0
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2026-10-23 6:49 [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: fix shift-out-of-bounds in SYN-ACK retransmit timers Jiayuan Chen
@ 2026-10-23 6:49 ` Jiayuan Chen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jiayuan Chen @ 2026-10-23 6:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: Jiayuan Chen, stable, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet,
Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, Jonathan Corbet,
Shuah Khan, Randy Dunlap, Neal Cardwell, Kuniyuki Iwashima,
linux-doc, linux-kernel
icsk_backoff is bumped on every RTO and zero window probe, and the only
thing bounding it is tcp_retries2 (a u8 sysctl, 0..255).
inet_csk_rto_backoff() then uses it as a shift amount:
u64 when = (u64)icsk->icsk_rto << icsk->icsk_backoff;
Set tcp_retries2 to 64 or more and keep the peer silent, icsk_backoff
climbs past 63 and the shift is UB. For example an ICMP host unreachable
arriving on such a socket goes through tcp_ld_RTO_revert():
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in ./include/net/inet_connection_sock.h:258:40
shift exponent 73 is too large for 64-bit type 'long long unsigned int'
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0xc1/0xf0
dump_stack+0x10/0x20
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1d1/0x390
tcp_ld_RTO_revert.cold+0x16/0x92
tcp_v4_err+0xdb3/0x13e0
icmp_socket_deliver+0x1a7/0x390
icmp_unreach+0x2dd/0xe50
icmp_rcv+0x93e/0xe30
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x36b/0x3e0
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x37d/0x620
ip_local_deliver+0x165/0x1d0
ip_rcv+0x284/0x320
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x16b/0x1c0
__netif_receive_skb+0x21/0x150
process_backlog+0x37e/0x1200
__napi_poll.constprop.0+0xa5/0x5e0
net_rx_action+0x4c0/0xf70
handle_softirqs+0x204/0x9b0
__irq_exit_rcu+0x13c/0x220
irq_exit_rcu+0xe/0x20
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x92/0xd0
</IRQ>
The orphan check in tcp_probe_timer() calls the same helper.
tcp_probe0_when() got a similar clamp in 2020, but this helper was left
as is. Cap the shift at 32 like it was suggested back then: icsk_rto is
at least 1 jiffy, so 1 << 32 jiffies is already far above any max_when,
and the min_t() result is unchanged. Unlike an ilog2(RTO_MAX/RTO_MIN)
bound, 32 still holds when tcp_rto_min_us is lowered.
Fixes: fcdd1cf4dd63 ("tcp: avoid possible arithmetic overflows")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
include/net/inet_connection_sock.h | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
index 903499581db7..562e12033a5d 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
@@ -255,9 +255,10 @@ static inline unsigned long
inet_csk_rto_backoff(const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk,
unsigned long max_when)
{
- u64 when = (u64)icsk->icsk_rto << icsk->icsk_backoff;
+ u8 backoff = min_t(u8, 32U, icsk->icsk_backoff);
+ u64 when = (u64)icsk->icsk_rto << backoff;
- return (unsigned long)min_t(u64, when, max_when);
+ return (unsigned long)min_t(u64, when, max_when);
}
struct sock *inet_csk_accept(struct sock *sk, struct proto_accept_arg *arg);
--
2.43.0
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