linux/net/rose
Jiayuan Chen a753844d2a net/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect
[ Upstream commit e1f0a18c95 ]

syzkaller reported a bug [1], and the reproducer is available at [2].

ROSE sockets use four sk->sk_state values: TCP_CLOSE, TCP_LISTEN,
TCP_SYN_SENT, and TCP_ESTABLISHED. rose_connect() already rejects
calls for TCP_ESTABLISHED (-EISCONN) and TCP_CLOSE with SS_CONNECTING
(-ECONNREFUSED), but lacks a check for TCP_SYN_SENT.

When rose_connect() is called a second time while the first connection
attempt is still in progress (TCP_SYN_SENT), it overwrites
rose->neighbour via rose_get_neigh(). If that returns NULL, the socket
is left with rose->state == ROSE_STATE_1 but rose->neighbour == NULL.
When the socket is subsequently closed, rose_release() sees
ROSE_STATE_1 and calls rose_write_internal() ->
rose_transmit_link(skb, NULL), causing a NULL pointer dereference.

Per connect(2), a second connect() while a connection is already in
progress should return -EALREADY. Add this missing check for
TCP_SYN_SENT to complete the state validation in rose_connect().

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d00f90e0af54102fb271
[2] https://gist.github.com/mrpre/9e6779e0d13e2c66779b1653fef80516

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: syzbot+d00f90e0af54102fb271@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69694d6f.050a0220.58bed.0027.GAE@google.com/T/
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311070611.76913-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-04-18 10:33:20 +02:00
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af_rose.c net/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect 2026-04-18 10:33:20 +02:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
rose_dev.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
rose_in.c treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
rose_link.c rose: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_send_frame() 2022-11-10 18:15:29 +01:00
rose_loopback.c rose: check NULL rose_loopback_neigh->loopback 2022-08-31 17:16:38 +02:00
rose_out.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
rose_route.c rose: fix dangling neighbour pointers in rose_rt_device_down() 2025-07-10 15:57:46 +02:00
rose_subr.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
rose_timer.c net: rose: fix timer races against user threads 2025-03-13 12:50:12 +01:00
sysctl_net_rose.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00