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sctp: Hold RCU read lock while iterating over address list
authorStefan Wiehler <stefan.wiehler@nokia.com>
Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:12:26 +0000 (17:12 +0100)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 4 Nov 2025 01:09:35 +0000 (17:09 -0800)
commit38f50242bf0f237cdc262308d624d333286ec3c5
tree6e8a854d37f6e0641a71b1ee43ac111c65d95dcc
parent99ae0675d73bd88c8ff4d15a6b0f310d49cad84c
sctp: Hold RCU read lock while iterating over address list

With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST=y and by executing

  $ netcat -l --sctp &
  $ netcat --sctp localhost &
  $ ss --sctp

one can trigger the following Lockdep-RCU splat(s):

  WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
  6.18.0-rc1-00093-g7f864458e9a6 #5 Not tainted
  -----------------------------
  net/sctp/diag.c:76 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
  2 locks held by ss/215:
   #0: ffff9c740828bec0 (nlk_cb_mutex-SOCK_DIAG){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __netlink_dump_start+0x84/0x2b0
   #1: ffff9c7401d72cd0 (sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: sctp_sock_dump+0x38/0x200

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 215 Comm: ss Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1-00093-g7f864458e9a6 #5 PREEMPT(voluntary)
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x90
   lockdep_rcu_suspicious.cold+0x4e/0xa3
   inet_sctp_diag_fill.isra.0+0x4b1/0x5d0
   sctp_sock_dump+0x131/0x200
   sctp_transport_traverse_process+0x170/0x1b0
   ? __pfx_sctp_sock_filter+0x10/0x10
   ? __pfx_sctp_sock_dump+0x10/0x10
   sctp_diag_dump+0x103/0x140
   __inet_diag_dump+0x70/0xb0
   netlink_dump+0x148/0x490
   __netlink_dump_start+0x1f3/0x2b0
   inet_diag_handler_cmd+0xcd/0x100
   ? __pfx_inet_diag_dump_start+0x10/0x10
   ? __pfx_inet_diag_dump+0x10/0x10
   ? __pfx_inet_diag_dump_done+0x10/0x10
   sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x18e/0x320
   ? __pfx_sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
   netlink_rcv_skb+0x4d/0x100
   netlink_unicast+0x1d7/0x2b0
   netlink_sendmsg+0x203/0x450
   ____sys_sendmsg+0x30c/0x340
   ___sys_sendmsg+0x94/0xf0
   __sys_sendmsg+0x83/0xf0
   do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x390
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
   ...
   </TASK>

Fixes: 8f840e47f190 ("sctp: add the sctp_diag.c file")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wiehler <stefan.wiehler@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028161506.3294376-2-stefan.wiehler@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/sctp/diag.c