Commit 84a8335d8300 for kernel
commit 84a8335d8300576f1b377ae24abca1d9f197807f
Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Date: Tue Mar 24 08:53:23 2026 -0400
tls: Purge async_hold in tls_decrypt_async_wait()
The async_hold queue pins encrypted input skbs while
the AEAD engine references their scatterlist data. Once
tls_decrypt_async_wait() returns, every AEAD operation
has completed and the engine no longer references those
skbs, so they can be freed unconditionally.
A subsequent patch adds batch async decryption to
tls_sw_read_sock(), introducing a new call site that
must drain pending AEAD operations and release held
skbs. Move __skb_queue_purge(&ctx->async_hold) into
tls_decrypt_async_wait() so the purge is centralized
and every caller -- recvmsg's drain path, the -EBUSY
fallback in tls_do_decryption(), and the new read_sock
batch path -- releases held skbs on synchronization
without each site managing the purge independently.
This fixes a leak when tls_strp_msg_hold() fails part-way through,
after having added some cloned skbs to the async_hold
queue. tls_decrypt_sg() will then call tls_decrypt_async_wait() to
process all pending decrypts, and drop back to synchronous mode, but
tls_sw_recvmsg() only flushes the async_hold queue when one record has
been processed in "fully-async" mode, which may not be the case here.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Yiming Qian <yimingqian591@gmail.com>
Fixes: b8a6ff84abbc ("tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324-tls-read-sock-v5-1-5408befe5774@oracle.com
[pabeni@redhat.com: added leak comment]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
index 5fe07f110fe8..dd9dda759bbb 100644
--- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ static int tls_decrypt_async_wait(struct tls_sw_context_rx *ctx)
crypto_wait_req(-EINPROGRESS, &ctx->async_wait);
atomic_inc(&ctx->decrypt_pending);
+ __skb_queue_purge(&ctx->async_hold);
return ctx->async_wait.err;
}
@@ -2225,7 +2226,6 @@ int tls_sw_recvmsg(struct sock *sk,
/* Wait for all previously submitted records to be decrypted */
ret = tls_decrypt_async_wait(ctx);
- __skb_queue_purge(&ctx->async_hold);
if (ret) {
if (err >= 0 || err == -EINPROGRESS)