linux/net/sctp
Xin Long 784428ab18 sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT
[ Upstream commit a80c9d945a ]

A null-ptr-deref was reported in the SCTP transmit path when SCTP-AUTH key
initialization fails:

  ==================================================================
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
  CPU: 0 PID: 16 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G W 6.6.0 #2
  RIP: 0010:sctp_packet_bundle_auth net/sctp/output.c:264 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:sctp_packet_append_chunk+0xb36/0x1260 net/sctp/output.c:401
  Call Trace:

  sctp_packet_transmit_chunk+0x31/0x250 net/sctp/output.c:189
  sctp_outq_flush_data+0xa29/0x26d0 net/sctp/outqueue.c:1111
  sctp_outq_flush+0xc80/0x1240 net/sctp/outqueue.c:1217
  sctp_cmd_interpreter.isra.0+0x19a5/0x62c0 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1787
  sctp_side_effects net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1198 [inline]
  sctp_do_sm+0x1a3/0x670 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1169
  sctp_assoc_bh_rcv+0x33e/0x640 net/sctp/associola.c:1052
  sctp_inq_push+0x1dd/0x280 net/sctp/inqueue.c:88
  sctp_rcv+0x11ae/0x3100 net/sctp/input.c:243
  sctp6_rcv+0x3d/0x60 net/sctp/ipv6.c:1127

The issue is triggered when sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key() fails in
sctp_sf_do_5_1C_ack() while processing an INIT_ACK. In this case, the
command sequence is currently:

- SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT
- SCTP_CMD_TIMER_STOP (T1_INIT)
- SCTP_CMD_TIMER_START (T1_COOKIE)
- SCTP_CMD_NEW_STATE (COOKIE_ECHOED)
- SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY
- SCTP_CMD_GEN_COOKIE_ECHO

If SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY fails, asoc->shkey remains NULL, while
asoc->peer.auth_capable and asoc->peer.peer_chunks have already been set by
SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT. This allows a DATA chunk with auth = 1 and shkey = NULL
to be queued by sctp_datamsg_from_user().

Since command interpretation stops on failure, no COOKIE_ECHO should been
sent via SCTP_CMD_GEN_COOKIE_ECHO. However, the T1_COOKIE timer has already
been started, and it may enqueue a COOKIE_ECHO into the outqueue later. As
a result, the DATA chunk can be transmitted together with the COOKIE_ECHO
in sctp_outq_flush_data(), leading to the observed issue.

Similar to the other places where it calls sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key()
right after sctp_process_init(), this patch moves the SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY
immediately after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT, before stopping T1_INIT and starting
T1_COOKIE. This ensures that if shared key generation fails, authenticated
DATA cannot be sent. It also allows the T1_INIT timer to retransmit INIT,
giving the client another chance to process INIT_ACK and retry key setup.

Fixes: 730fc3d05c ("[SCTP]: Implete SCTP-AUTH parameter processing")
Reported-by: Zhen Chen <chenzhen126@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Zhen Chen <chenzhen126@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/44881224b375aa8853f5e19b4055a1a56d895813.1768324226.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-02-06 16:41:52 +01:00
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associola.c net/sctp: Prevent autoclose integer overflow in sctp_association_init() 2025-01-09 13:28:50 +01:00
auth.c sctp: handle the error returned from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key 2022-10-26 12:34:48 +02:00
bind_addr.c sctp: fail if no bound addresses can be used for a given scope 2023-02-01 08:27:27 +01:00
chunk.c net: sctp: chunk.c: delete duplicated word 2020-08-24 16:21:43 -07:00
debug.c sctp: add the probe timer in transport for PLPMTUD 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
diag.c sctp: Hold sock lock while iterating over address list 2025-12-07 06:09:26 +09:00
endpointola.c sctp: use call_rcu to free endpoint 2022-01-05 12:42:35 +01:00
input.c sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv 2025-08-28 16:24:16 +02:00
inqueue.c sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing 2025-10-29 14:03:11 +01:00
ipv6.c sctp: initialize more fields in sctp_v6_from_sk() 2025-09-04 14:28:46 +02:00
Kconfig sctp: create udp4 sock and add its encap_rcv 2020-10-30 15:23:52 -07:00
Makefile sctp: rename sctp_diag.c as diag.c 2018-02-13 13:56:31 -05:00
objcnt.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
offload.c sctp: remove the NETIF_F_SG flag before calling skb_segment 2021-01-16 19:05:59 -08:00
output.c sctp: allow IP fragmentation when PLPMTUD enters Error state 2021-11-18 19:16:43 +01:00
outqueue.c sctp: clear out_curr if all frag chunks of current msg are pruned 2022-12-02 17:40:59 +01:00
primitive.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
proc.c sctp: move hlist_node and hashent out of sctp_ep_common 2024-08-19 05:45:35 +02:00
protocol.c ip: Fix data-races around sysctl_ip_nonlocal_bind. 2022-07-29 17:25:13 +02:00
sm_make_chunk.c sctp: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time 2025-10-19 16:21:46 +02:00
sm_sideeffect.c sctp: handle invalid error codes without calling BUG() 2023-09-19 12:22:29 +02:00
sm_statefuns.c sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT 2026-02-06 16:41:52 +01:00
sm_statetable.c sctp: add the probe timer in transport for PLPMTUD 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
socket.c sctp: Defer SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_DEC() to sctp_destroy_sock(). 2026-01-19 13:09:24 +01:00
stream.c sctp: Fix undefined behavior in left shift operation 2025-04-10 14:31:51 +02:00
stream_interleave.c sctp: fix a potential overflow in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip 2023-04-20 12:13:53 +02:00
stream_sched.c sctp: fix memory leak in sctp_stream_outq_migrate() 2022-12-08 11:28:41 +01:00
stream_sched_prio.c sctp: add a refcnt in sctp_stream_priorities to avoid a nested loop 2023-03-11 13:57:28 +01:00
stream_sched_rr.c sctp: fix memory leak in sctp_stream_outq_migrate() 2022-12-08 11:28:41 +01:00
sysctl.c sctp: add mutual exclusion in proc_sctp_do_udp_port() 2025-05-22 14:08:27 +02:00
transport.c sctp: prevent possible shift-out-of-bounds in sctp_transport_update_rto 2025-12-07 06:09:27 +09:00
tsnmap.c net: sctp: trivial: fix typo in comment 2021-03-04 13:48:32 -08:00
ulpevent.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-31 17:48:46 -07:00
ulpqueue.c net: sctp: ulpqueue.c: delete duplicated word 2020-08-24 16:21:43 -07:00