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authorKai Aizen <kai@snailsploit.com>2026-02-18 17:36:41 +0000
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2026-02-18 10:39:48 -0700
commit003049b1c4fb8aabb93febb7d1e49004f6ad653b (patch)
treebdebae3d7d6667f236dd31ecb4a183ecbcb0b8c6
parent2961f841b025fb234860bac26dfb7fa7cb0fb122 (diff)
io_uring/zcrx: fix user_ref race between scrub and refill paths
The io_zcrx_put_niov_uref() function uses a non-atomic check-then-decrement pattern (atomic_read followed by separate atomic_dec) to manipulate user_refs. This is serialized against other callers by rq_lock, but io_zcrx_scrub() modifies the same counter with atomic_xchg() WITHOUT holding rq_lock. On SMP systems, the following race exists: CPU0 (refill, holds rq_lock) CPU1 (scrub, no rq_lock) put_niov_uref: atomic_read(uref) - 1 // window opens atomic_xchg(uref, 0) - 1 return_niov_freelist(niov) [PUSH #1] // window closes atomic_dec(uref) - wraps to -1 returns true return_niov(niov) return_niov_freelist(niov) [PUSH #2: DOUBLE-FREE] The same niov is pushed to the freelist twice, causing free_count to exceed nr_iovs. Subsequent freelist pushes then perform an out-of-bounds write (a u32 value) past the kvmalloc'd freelist array into the adjacent slab object. Fix this by replacing the non-atomic read-then-dec in io_zcrx_put_niov_uref() with an atomic_try_cmpxchg loop that atomically tests and decrements user_refs. This makes the operation safe against concurrent atomic_xchg from scrub without requiring scrub to acquire rq_lock. Fixes: 34a3e60821ab ("io_uring/zcrx: implement zerocopy receive pp memory provider") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kai Aizen <kai@snailsploit.com> [pavel: removed a warning and a comment] Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--io_uring/zcrx.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/io_uring/zcrx.c b/io_uring/zcrx.c
index 28150c6578e3..97984a73a95d 100644
--- a/io_uring/zcrx.c
+++ b/io_uring/zcrx.c
@@ -349,10 +349,14 @@ static inline atomic_t *io_get_user_counter(struct net_iov *niov)
static bool io_zcrx_put_niov_uref(struct net_iov *niov)
{
atomic_t *uref = io_get_user_counter(niov);
+ int old;
+
+ old = atomic_read(uref);
+ do {
+ if (unlikely(old == 0))
+ return false;
+ } while (!atomic_try_cmpxchg(uref, &old, old - 1));
- if (unlikely(!atomic_read(uref)))
- return false;
- atomic_dec(uref);
return true;
}