CVE-2023-54006

af_unix: Fix data-race around unix_tot_inflight.

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

af_unix: Fix data-race around unix_tot_inflight.

unix_tot_inflight is changed under spin_lock(unix_gc_lock), but unix_release_sock() reads it locklessly.

Let's use READ_ONCE() for unix_tot_inflight.

Note that the writer side was marked by commit 9d6d7f1cb67c ("af_unix: annote lockless accesses to unix_tot_inflight & gc_in_progress")

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_inflight / unix_release_sock

write (marked) to 0xffffffff871852b8 of 4 bytes by task 123 on cpu 1: unix_inflight+0x130/0x180 net/unix/scm.c:64 unix_attach_fds+0x137/0x1b0 net/unix/scm.c:123 unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1832 [inline] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1955 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:747 ____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2493 ___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2547 __sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2576 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2585 [inline] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2583 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2583 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

read to 0xffffffff871852b8 of 4 bytes by task 4891 on cpu 0: unix_release_sock+0x608/0x910 net/unix/af_unix.c:671 unix_release+0x59/0x80 net/unix/af_unix.c:1058 __sock_release+0x7d/0x170 net/socket.c:653 sock_close+0x19/0x30 net/socket.c:1385 __fput+0x179/0x5e0 fs/file_table.c:321 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:349 task_work_run+0x116/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:179 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:171 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x174/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:204 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:286 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:297 do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 PID: 4891 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #5 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9305cfa4443dbfb99faf35c5603ec0c0e91b5ef8 to before 31b46d5e7c4e295bd112960614a66a177a057dcaAffected
  • 9305cfa4443dbfb99faf35c5603ec0c0e91b5ef8 to before 20aa8325464d8905450089eed96ca102a074d853Affected
  • 9305cfa4443dbfb99faf35c5603ec0c0e91b5ef8 to before 5d91b7891f4a9a9d69d75e9f44ab4bf1f3b11840Affected
  • 9305cfa4443dbfb99faf35c5603ec0c0e91b5ef8 to before cf29b42766ad4af2ae6a449f583796951551b48dAffected
  • 9305cfa4443dbfb99faf35c5603ec0c0e91b5ef8 to before e5edc6e44a882c0458878ab10eaddfe60ac34e57Affected
  • 9305cfa4443dbfb99faf35c5603ec0c0e91b5ef8 to before 2d8933ca863e252fb09ad0be483255e3dfeb1f54Affected
  • 9305cfa4443dbfb99faf35c5603ec0c0e91b5ef8 to before afc284a4a781defbb12b2a40427fae34c3d20e17Affected
  • 9305cfa4443dbfb99faf35c5603ec0c0e91b5ef8 to before ade32bd8a738d7497ffe9743c46728db26740f78Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.24Affected
  • before 2.6.24Not affected
  • 4.14.326 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.295 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.257 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.195 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.132 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.54 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.5.4 through 6.5.*Not affected
  • 6.6 and laterNot affected

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