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LIN1021-20719 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2023-54218

Created: Dec 31, 2025    Updated: Jan 6, 2026
Resolved Date: Jan 1, 2026
Found In Version: 10.21.20.2
Fix Version: 10.21.20.19
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Kernel

Description

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

net: Fix load-tearing on sk->sk_stamp in sock_recv_cmsgs().

KCSAN found a data race in sock_recv_cmsgs() where the read access
to sk->sk_stamp needs READ_ONCE().

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in packet_recvmsg / packet_recvmsg

write (marked) to 0xffff88803c81f258 of 8 bytes by task 19171 on cpu 0:
 sock_write_timestamp include/net/sock.h:2670 [inline]
 sock_recv_cmsgs include/net/sock.h:2722 [inline]
 packet_recvmsg+0xb97/0xd00 net/packet/af_packet.c:3489
 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1019 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg+0x11a/0x130 net/socket.c:1040
 sock_read_iter+0x176/0x220 net/socket.c:1118
 call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:1845 [inline]
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:389 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x5e0/0x630 fs/read_write.c:470
 ksys_read+0x163/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:613
 __do_sys_read fs/read_write.c:623 [inline]
 __se_sys_read fs/read_write.c:621 [inline]
 __x64_sys_read+0x41/0x50 fs/read_write.c:621
 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 0xffff88803c81f258 of 8 bytes by task 19183 on cpu 1:
 sock_recv_cmsgs include/net/sock.h:2721 [inline]
 packet_recvmsg+0xb64/0xd00 net/packet/af_packet.c:3489
 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1019 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg+0x11a/0x130 net/socket.c:1040
 sock_read_iter+0x176/0x220 net/socket.c:1118
 call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:1845 [inline]
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:389 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x5e0/0x630 fs/read_write.c:470
 ksys_read+0x163/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:613
 __do_sys_read fs/read_write.c:623 [inline]
 __se_sys_read fs/read_write.c:621 [inline]
 __x64_sys_read+0x41/0x50 fs/read_write.c:621
 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

value changed: 0xffffffffc4653600 -> 0x0000000000000000

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 19183 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-02330-gca6270c12e20 #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

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