CVE-2023-54006

EUVD-2025-205154
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

af_unix: Fix data-race around unix_tot_inflight.

unix_tot_inflight is changed under spin_lock(unix_gc_lock), but
unix_release_sock() reads it locklessly.

Let's use READ_ONCE() for unix_tot_inflight.

Note that the writer side was marked by commit 9d6d7f1cb67c ("af_unix:
annote lockless accesses to unix_tot_inflight & gc_in_progress")

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_inflight / unix_release_sock

write (marked) to 0xffffffff871852b8 of 4 bytes by task 123 on cpu 1:
 unix_inflight+0x130/0x180 net/unix/scm.c:64
 unix_attach_fds+0x137/0x1b0 net/unix/scm.c:123
 unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1832 [inline]
 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1955
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:747
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2493
 ___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2547
 __sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2576
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2585 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

read to 0xffffffff871852b8 of 4 bytes by task 4891 on cpu 0:
 unix_release_sock+0x608/0x910 net/unix/af_unix.c:671
 unix_release+0x59/0x80 net/unix/af_unix.c:1058
 __sock_release+0x7d/0x170 net/socket.c:653
 sock_close+0x19/0x30 net/socket.c:1385
 __fput+0x179/0x5e0 fs/file_table.c:321
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:349
 task_work_run+0x116/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:179
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:171 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x174/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:204
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:286 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:297
 do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 4891 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
UNKNOWN
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