net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls
sk->sk_err appears to expect a positive value, a convention that ktls
doesn't always follow and that leads to memory corruption in other code.
For instance,
[kworker]
tls_encrypt_done(..., err=<negative error from crypto request>)
tls_err_abort(.., err)
sk->sk_err = err;
[task]
splice_from_pipe_feed
...
tls_sw_do_sendpage
if (sk->sk_err) {
ret = -sk->sk_err; // ret is positive
splice_from_pipe_feed (continued)
ret = actor(...) // ret is still positive and interpreted as bytes
// written, resulting in underflow of buf->len and
// sd->len, leading to huge buf->offset and bogus
// addresses computed in later calls to actor()
Fix all tls_err_abort() callers to pass a negative error code
consistently and centralize the error-prone sign flip there, throwing in
a warning to catch future misuse and uninlining the function so it
really does only warn once.
No advisories yet.
Solution
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Workaround
No workaround given by the vendor.
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:30:00 +0000
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| Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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cvssV3_1
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Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000
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ssvc
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2025-05-04T07:12:17.959Z
Reserved: 2024-05-22T06:20:56.202Z
Link: CVE-2021-47496
Updated: 2024-08-04T05:39:59.752Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-05-22T09:15:11.447
Modified: 2025-09-24T19:15:53.210
Link: CVE-2021-47496
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Updated: 2025-07-12T22:31:05Z