A child gets a copy of the parent's out_of_order_queue, which can be non empty when/if parent morphs from listener to active session. Parent and child then point at the same rbtree. The parent is no longer a listener, so inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() forgets the child immediately, and tcp_disconnect() frees the skbs the parent still owns. The parent's own root and ooo_last_skb are left alone, so it keeps using those skbs. That is a use-after-free, and the parent frees them a second time when it closes. In short: peers the socket owner socket(AF_INET6) setsockopt(TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT, 30) bind(), listen() connect(the listener) // bare ACK deferred, the request stays connect(AF_UNSPEC) connect(the new peer) send(the new connection) // it starts one byte past rcv_nxt, so it lands out of order tcp_data_queue() tcp_data_queue_ofo() // the parent's queue fills up send(the old connection) tcp_check_req() tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() tcp_create_openreq_child() // the child gets the same rbtree inet_csk_complete_hashdance() inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() inet_child_forget() tcp_disconnect() skb_rbtree_purge() // the parent's skbs are freed send(the new connection) tcp_data_queue() tcp_data_queue_ofo() rb_link_node() // use-after-free write KASAN log: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tcp_data_queue+0x1708/0x1df0 Write of size 8 at addr ffff888012ad5408 by task repro/135 ... Call Trace: tcp_data_queue+0x1708/0x1df0 tcp_rcv_established+0x441/0x1830 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x47e/0x730 tcp_v4_rcv+0x171c/0x2040 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x5c/0x280 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x15a/0x2e0 ip_local_deliver+0x107/0x370 ip_rcv+0x3b1/0x3d0 ... Allocated by task 135: __alloc_skb+0xd0/0x370 alloc_skb_with_frags+0x7d/0x330 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x490/0x4e0 raw_sendmsg+0xd52/0x1850 ... Freed by task 133: kmem_cache_free+0x26f/0x5f0 skb_rbtree_purge+0x73/0x90 tcp_disconnect+0x1be/0xd60 inet_child_forget+0x41/0x140 inet_csk_complete_hashdance+0x4d0/0x520 tcp_check_req+0x9f9/0xff0 tcp_v6_rcv+0xb9f/0x1e90 ... The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888012ad5400 which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 232 The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of freed 232-byte region [ffff888012ad5400, ffff888012ad54e8) We need to make sure this can not happen, by initializing the queue after socket cloning. Very similar to commit 8b485ce69876 ("tcp: do not inherit fastopen_req from parent") Fixes: 9f5afeae5152 ("tcp: use an RB tree for ooo receive queue") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim --- Changes in v2: - Add the trigger sequence and the KASAN log to the commit message. - v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260817090319.3897799-4-imv4bel@gmail.com/ --- net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c index 0c3b35a381e327..7fe318d9e0aed2 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c @@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ struct sock *tcp_create_openreq_child(const struct sock *sk, newtp->total_retrans = req->num_retrans; tcp_init_xmit_timers(newsk); + newtp->out_of_order_queue = RB_ROOT; WRITE_ONCE(newtp->write_seq, newtp->pushed_seq = treq->snt_isn + 1); if (sock_flag(newsk, SOCK_KEEPOPEN)) -- 2.43.0