tcp: fix use-after-free of retransmit_skb_hint in tcp_send_synack()

When tcp_send_synack() replaces the cloned SYN skb at the head of the
retransmit queue with a copy, it frees the original with
tcp_rtx_queue_unlink_and_free() and only repairs tp->highest_sack.
tp->retransmit_skb_hint keeps pointing at the freed
skbuff_fclone_cache object.

The dangling hint is read in tcp_verify_retransmit_hint() and used as
the root of the rbtree walk in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue().  An
unprivileged TFO client (sendmsg(MSG_FASTOPEN)) can arm the hint with
an attacker-supplied ICMP fragmentation-needed message, after which a
simultaneous open frees the armed SYN skb:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tcp_mark_skb_lost (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1316)
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800604d928 by task swapper/1/0
  Call Trace:
   tcp_mark_skb_lost (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1316)
   tcp_simple_retransmit (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3158)
   tcp_v4_err (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:587)

Sync the hint to the copy.

Fixes: c31b70c996 ("tcp: Add logic to check for SYN w/ data in tcp_simple_retransmit")
Reported-by: Kimi Security Team <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Weiming Shi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yilin Zhang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8a9dff4063a2745653b7e88ceb745d75efa16e68.1790224474.git.yilinzhang@moonshot.ai
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
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Yilin Zhang authored and Jakub Kicinski committed 2026-09-24 09:17:10 -07:00
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@@ -3886,6 +3886,7 @@ void tcp_send_active_reset(struct sock *sk, enum sk_rst_reason reason)
*/
int tcp_send_synack(struct sock *sk)
{
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
struct sk_buff *skb;
skb = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk);
@@ -3903,6 +3904,8 @@ int tcp_send_synack(struct sock *sk)
if (!nskb)
return -ENOMEM;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nskb->tcp_tsorted_anchor);
if (skb == tp->retransmit_skb_hint)
tp->retransmit_skb_hint = nskb;
tcp_highest_sack_replace(sk, skb, nskb);
tcp_rtx_queue_unlink_and_free(skb, sk);
__skb_header_release(nskb);