CVE-2025-21683

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

bpf: Fix bpf_sk_select_reuseport() memory leak

As pointed out in the original comment, lookup in sockmap can return a TCP ESTABLISHED socket. Such TCP socket may have had SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_EBPF set before it was ESTABLISHED. In other words, a non-NULL sk_reuseport_cb does not imply a non-refcounted socket.

Drop sks reference in both error paths.

unreferenced object 0xffff888101911800 (size 2048): comm test_progs, pid 44109, jiffies 4297131437 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. 80 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace (crc 9336483b): __kmalloc_noprof+0x3bf/0x560 __reuseport_alloc+0x1d/0x40 reuseport_alloc+0xca/0x150 reuseport_attach_prog+0x87/0x140 sk_reuseport_attach_bpf+0xc8/0x100 sk_setsockopt+0x1181/0x1990 do_sock_setsockopt+0x12b/0x160 __sys_setsockopt+0x7b/0xc0 __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x1b/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ab52a8ca6e156a64c51b5e7456cac9a0ebfd9bf
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b02e70be498b138e9c21701c2f33f4018ca7cd5e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3af60928ab9129befa65e6df0310d27300942bf
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb36838dac7bb334a3f3d7eb29875593ec9473fc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cccd51dd22574216e64e5d205489e634f86999f3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0a3b3d1176d39218b8edb2a2d03164942ab9ccd