CVE-2026-52974

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

net: tls: fix strparser anchor skb leak on offload RX setup failure

When tls_set_device_offload_rx() fails at tls_dev_add(), the error path calls tls_sw_free_resources_rx() to clean up the SW context that was initialized by tls_set_sw_offload(). This function calls tls_sw_release_resources_rx() (which stops the strparser via tls_strp_stop()) and tls_sw_free_ctx_rx() (which kfrees the context), but never frees the anchor skb that was allocated by alloc_skb(0) in tls_strp_init().

Note that tls_sw_free_resources_rx() is exclusively used for this failed to start offload code path, theres no other caller.

The leak did not exist before commit 84c61fe1a75b (tls: rx: do not use the standard strparser), because the standard strparser doesnt try to pre-allocate an skb.

The normal close path in tls_sk_proto_close() handles cleanup by calling tls_sw_strparser_done() (which calls tls_strp_done()) after dropping the socket lock, because tls_strp_done() does cancel_work_sync() and the strparser work handler takes the socket lock.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c9f399b37ce22a5ed94cc51f03ed07ac7f38e32
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c405dfa9619e506e75b8e41f8b29a5b99731877
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58689498ca3384851145a754dbb1d8ed1cf9fb54
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/688f12aa44511dd57e448eb670075c6302ad1dc1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c54e76f8d6eb11735918777ef0e0509e089557d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd07fe6c38b9e44ff3fc02692a53f095c5cc9afc