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mptcp: fix 'scheduling while atomic' in mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr

Published Apr 1, 2025 · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

mptcp: fix 'scheduling while atomic' in mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr

If multiple connection requests attempt to create an implicit mptcp
endpoint in parallel, more than one caller may end up in
mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr because none found the address in
local_addr_list during their call to mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id. In this
case, the concurrent new_local_addr calls may delete the address entry
created by the previous caller. These deletes use synchronize_rcu, but
this is not permitted in some of the contexts where this function may be
called. During packet recv, the caller may be in a rcu read critical
section and have preemption disabled.

An example stack:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/2/0/0x00000302

Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:117 (discriminator 1))
dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:124)
__schedule_bug (kernel/sched/core.c:5943)
schedule_debug.constprop.0 (arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:33 kernel/sched/core.c:5970)
__schedule (arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 include/linux/jump_label.h:207 kernel/sched/features.h:29 kernel/sched/core.c:6621)
schedule (arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:84 kernel/sched/core.c:6804 kernel/sched/core.c:6818)
schedule_timeout (kernel/time/timer.c:2160)
wait_for_completion (kernel/sched/completion.c:96 kernel/sched/completion.c:116 kernel/sched/completion.c:127 kernel/sched/completion.c:148)
__wait_rcu_gp (include/linux/rcupdate.h:311 kernel/rcu/update.c:444)
synchronize_rcu (kernel/rcu/tree.c:3609)
mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr (net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:966 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1061)
mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id (net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1164)
mptcp_pm_get_local_id (net/mptcp/pm.c:420)
subflow_check_req (net/mptcp/subflow.c:98 net/mptcp/subflow.c:213)
subflow_v4_route_req (net/mptcp/subflow.c:305)
tcp_conn_request (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:7216)
subflow_v4_conn_request (net/mptcp/subflow.c:651)
tcp_rcv_state_process (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6709)
tcp_v4_do_rcv (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1934)
tcp_v4_rcv (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2334)
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205 (discriminator 1))
ip_local_deliver_finish (include/linux/rcupdate.h:813 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:234)
ip_local_deliver (include/linux/netfilter.h:314 include/linux/netfilter.h:308 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:254)
ip_sublist_rcv_finish (include/net/dst.h:461 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:580)
ip_sublist_rcv (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:640)
ip_list_rcv (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:675)
__netif_receive_skb_list_core (net/core/dev.c:5583 net/core/dev.c:5631)
netif_receive_skb_list_internal (net/core/dev.c:5685 net/core/dev.c:5774)
napi_complete_done (include/linux/list.h:37 include/net/gro.h:449 include/net/gro.h:444 net/core/dev.c:6114)
igb_poll (drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c:8244) igb
__napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6582)
net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:6653 net/core/dev.c:6787)
handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:553)
__irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:588 kernel/softirq.c:427 kernel/softirq.c:636)
irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:651)
common_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:247 (discriminator 14))
</IRQ>

This problem seems particularly prevalent if the user advertises an
endpoint that has a different external vs internal address. In the case
where the external address is advertised and multiple connections
already exist, multiple subflow SYNs arrive in parallel which tends to
trigger the race during creation of the first local_addr_list entries
which have the internal address instead.

Fix by skipping the replacement of an existing implicit local address if
called via mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.18 6.1.131

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 6.12.19-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.19-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.133-1 DSA-5900-1
Debian 11 linux-6.1 6.1.137-1~deb11u1 DLA-4193-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-60.63 USN-7513-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1029.31 USN-7513-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1029.34 USN-7513-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1016.17 USN-7522-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1030.32 USN-7515-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.11 +1 6.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1 USN-7521-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1025.29 USN-7515-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1012.14 USN-7515-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1 USN-7521-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1026.26 USN-7513-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-1014.15~24.04.1 USN-7521-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1028.31 USN-7514-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.11 6.11.0-1010.10 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1028.31.1 USN-7514-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1008.8 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.11 6.11.0-1022.22 USN-7521-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.8 6.8.0-1028.28 USN-7513-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1026.27 USN-7513-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1028.32 USN-7524-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-realtime +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 6.8.0-60.63.1 USN-7513-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1017.18 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1029.31~22.04.1 USN-7513-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1029.34~22.04.1 USN-7513-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1030.32~22.04.1 USN-7515-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-60.63~22.04.1 USN-7513-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1026.26~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-60.63.1~22.04.1 USN-7513-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1028.31~22.04.1 USN-7514-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1026.27~22.04.1 USN-7513-5
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-62.65~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2023.24 USN-7523-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1022.23 USN-7513-2
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1022.23~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-78.78+fips1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150700.53.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150700.20.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02254-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.6.1.150700.17.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-64kb +3 6.4.0-150600.23.60.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.43.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02249-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-coco +3 6.4.0-15061.28.coco15sp6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02923-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.60.5 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.60.5.150600.12.26.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-docs +1 6.4.0-150600.23.60.3 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-33.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20421-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-33.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20413-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_2 1-150700.1.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02333-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_2 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.60.5 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_13 1-150600.1.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02335-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_13 1-150600.13.6.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150700.7.8.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02333-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.44.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02335-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.6 dtb-aarch64 +2 6.4.0-150600.23.60.3 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-64kb +5 6.4.0-150600.23.60.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.43.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02249-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.60.5 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.60.5.150600.12.26.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-obs-qa 6.4.0-150600.23.60.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.44.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02335-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.131-143.221 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-915
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +14 6.1.131-143.221.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-915

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-101.33.4.3.el10uek ELSA-2025-20530, ELSA-2025-20480

Advisories 32

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