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af_unix: Drop oob_skb ref before purging queue in GC.

Published Apr 4, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

af_unix: Drop oob_skb ref before purging queue in GC.

syzbot reported another task hung in __unix_gc(). [0]

The current while loop assumes that all of the left candidates
have oob_skb and calling kfree_skb(oob_skb) releases the remaining
candidates.

However, I missed a case that oob_skb has self-referencing fd and
another fd and the latter sk is placed before the former in the
candidate list. Then, the while loop never proceeds, resulting
the task hung.

__unix_gc() has the same loop just before purging the collected skb,
so we can call kfree_skb(oob_skb) there and let __skb_queue_purge()
release all inflight sockets.

[0]:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 2784 Comm: kworker/u4:8 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc4-syzkaller-01028-g71b605d32017 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024
Workqueue: events_unbound __unix_gc
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x0/0x70 kernel/kcov.c:200
Code: 89 fb e8 23 00 00 00 48 8b 3d 84 f5 1a 0c 48 89 de 5b e9 43 26 57 00 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 <f3> 0f 1e fa 48 8b 04 24 65 48 8b 0d 90 52 70 7e 65 8b 15 91 52 70
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000a17fa78 EFLAGS: 00000287
RAX: ffffffff8a0a6108 RBX: ffff88802b6c2640 RCX: ffff88802c0b3b80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000a17fbf0 R08: ffffffff89383f1d R09: 1ffff1100ee5ff84
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100ee5ff85 R12: 1ffff110056d84ee
R13: ffffc9000a17fae0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8f47b840
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffef5687ff8 CR3: 0000000029b34000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<NMI>
</NMI>
<TASK>
__unix_gc+0xe69/0xf40 net/unix/garbage.c:343
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2633 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0x913/0x1420 kernel/workqueue.c:2706
worker_thread+0xa5f/0x1000 kernel/workqueue.c:2787
kthread+0x2ef/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:242
</TASK>

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.15.149 – < 5.15.151 5.15.151

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.7.9-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.7.9-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.82-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1044.46 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux 5.15.0-112.122 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1063.69 USN-6821-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1066.75 USN-6821-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1067.76.1 USN-6821-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1062.70 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1060.66 USN-6821-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1046.53 USN-6821-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1056.59 USN-6821-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1058.64 USN-6821-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1060.65 USN-6821-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-110.120 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1058.59 USN-6820-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1061.67 USN-6821-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1058.61 USN-6919-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +21 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1030.34 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1063.69~20.04.1 USN-6821-3
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1065.74~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-5.15 5.15.0-1065.74~20.04.1.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1062.70~20.04.1 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop-5.15 5.15.0-1046.53~20.04.1 USN-6821-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-113.123~20.04.1 USN-6871-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1057.60~20.04.1 USN-6892-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1058.64~20.04.1 USN-6828-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-110.120~20.04.1 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1061.67~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1059.63~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1056.58 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1064.72 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.15.0-1063.69+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.15.0-1065.74+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips 5.15.0-111.121+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.15.0-1062.70+fips1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-64kb 6.4.0-150600.23.14.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-azure +1 6.4.0-150600.8.8.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.14.2.150600.12.4.3 SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-docs +5 6.4.0-150600.23.14.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-syms-azure 6.4.0-150600.8.8.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-17.1.1.51 SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-9.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.14.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_1 1-150600.1.5.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_2 1-150600.13.3.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.5.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.6 dtb-aarch64 +1 6.4.0-150600.23.14.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-azure +1 6.4.0-150600.8.8.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.14.2.150600.12.4.3 SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-docs +8 6.4.0-150600.23.14.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.5.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-syms-azure 6.4.0-150600.8.8.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1

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