CVE-2022-49814

kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue

sk->sk_receive_queue is protected by skb queue lock, but for KCM sockets its RX path takes mux->rx_lock to protect more than just skb queue. However, kcm_recvmsg() still only grabs the skb queue lock, so race conditions still exist.

We can teach kcm_recvmsg() to grab mux->rx_lock too but this would introduce a potential performance regression as struct kcm_mux can be shared by multiple KCM sockets.

So we have to enforce skb queue lock in requeue_rx_msgs() and handle skb peek case carefully in kcm_wait_data(). Fortunately, skb_recv_datagram() already handles it nicely and is widely used by other sockets, we can just switch to skb_recv_datagram() after getting rid of the unnecessary sock lock in kcm_recvmsg() and kcm_splice_read(). Side note: SOCK_DONE is not used by KCM sockets, so it is safe to get rid of this check too.

I ran the original syzbot reproducer for 30 min without seeing any issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 to before 22f6b5d47396b4287662668ee3f5c1f766cb4259Affected
  • ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 to before d9ad4de92e184b19bcae4da10dac0275abf83931Affected
  • ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 to before ce57d6474ae999a3b2d442314087473a646a65c7Affected
  • ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 to before 4154b6afa2bd639214ff259d912faad984f7413aAffected
  • ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 to before f7b0e95071bb4be4b811af3f0bfc3e200eedeaa3Affected
  • ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 to before bf92e54597d842da127c59833b365d6faeeaf020Affected
  • ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 to before 5121197ecc5db58c07da95eb1ff82b98b121a221Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.6Affected
  • before 4.6Not affected
  • 4.14.300 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.267 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.225 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.156 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.80 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.10 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

References

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