net: psp: require an established connection for association setup

Check sk_state under the socket lock in both the rx-assoc and tx-assoc
handlers, and only allow association setup on sockets in
TCP_ESTABLISHED. Also, fail connect() when PSP assoc state is already
present, and remove the dead PSP MSS adjustment from
tcp_v[46]_connect().

The net effect of this commit is:
1. PSP assoc state can never exist on a listen socket.
2. The upgrade to PSP must be done while the socket is in
   TCP_ESTABLISHED.

This change defeatures behavior that was previously allowed under the
PSP uapi. My justification is:

Nothing useful can be done after association setup on closed or listen
sockets today. Listen sockets could accept a PSP-encrypted TCP SYN, but
the child socket will not inherit any PSP state. On the other side,
establishing PSP state prior to connect() will result in a PSP-encrypted
TCP SYN sent to a listening peer, which in turn has the aforementioned
limitations. That implies that there cannot be any users of this
feature, so it should be safe to remove it from the PSP uapi.

In theory, the check in the tx-assoc path is more restrictive than
necessary. FIN_WAIT1/2, CLOSING, LAST_ACK and CLOSE_WAIT could be
allowed, and the peer would accept PSP-encrypted ACKs in the
post-FIN-sent states, or data in the half-close case, but it is simpler
to disallow those states because they don't fit the upgrade model.

The check in the tx-assoc path fixes a bug in commit 6b46ca260e ("net:
psp: add socket security association code") where an unsynchronized
write can be performed on an assoc shared with a timewait socket when
the socket is in TCP_CLOSE after shutdown. This commit is not targeted
at net because its premise of preventing listen sockets from holding
assoc state depends on net-next commit 8cc3aef0cb ("tcp: Do not allow
buggy transitions between ehash and lhash2.")

Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Fixes: 6b46ca260e ("net: psp: add socket security association code")
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260930-psp-defeat-v2-2-f266e7447129@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Zahka 2026-09-30 16:46:47 -07:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent e404a2de7e
commit 86a1928442
4 changed files with 31 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ numbers in a way that deletes a prefix of the PSP protected part of
the TCP stream. If userspace cares to mitigate this type of attack, a
special "start of PSP" message should be exchanged after ``tx-assoc``.
Upgrade to PSP must be done on established TCP connections.
``rx-assoc`` and ``tx-assoc`` will return ``-ENOTCONN`` if
``sk_state`` is not ``TCP_ESTABLISHED``.
The PSP assoc state of a socket is not reset when the connection is
torn down. ``connect()`` on a socket that has PSP assoc state will
return ``-EINVAL``.
Rotation notifications
----------------------

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@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ int tcp_v4_connect(struct sock *sk, struct sockaddr_unsized *uaddr, int addr_len
if (usin->sin_family != AF_INET)
return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
if (psp_sk_assoc(sk))
return -EINVAL;
nexthop = daddr = usin->sin_addr.s_addr;
inet_opt = rcu_dereference_protected(inet->inet_opt,
lockdep_sock_is_held(sk));
@ -291,9 +294,9 @@ int tcp_v4_connect(struct sock *sk, struct sockaddr_unsized *uaddr, int addr_len
inet->inet_dport = usin->sin_port;
sk_daddr_set(sk, daddr);
inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ext_hdr_len = psp_sk_overhead(sk);
inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ext_hdr_len = 0;
if (inet_opt)
inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ext_hdr_len += inet_opt->opt.optlen;
inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ext_hdr_len = inet_opt->opt.optlen;
tp->rx_opt.mss_clamp = TCP_MSS_DEFAULT;

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@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ static int tcp_v6_connect(struct sock *sk, struct sockaddr_unsized *uaddr,
if (usin->sin6_family != AF_INET6)
return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
if (psp_sk_assoc(sk))
return -EINVAL;
fl6 = &inet_sk(sk)->cork.fl.u.ip6;
memset(fl6, 0, sizeof(*fl6));
@ -311,10 +314,10 @@ static int tcp_v6_connect(struct sock *sk, struct sockaddr_unsized *uaddr,
sk->sk_gso_type = SKB_GSO_TCPV6;
ip6_dst_store(sk, dst, false, false);
icsk->icsk_ext_hdr_len = psp_sk_overhead(sk);
icsk->icsk_ext_hdr_len = 0;
if (opt)
icsk->icsk_ext_hdr_len += opt->opt_flen +
opt->opt_nflen;
icsk->icsk_ext_hdr_len = opt->opt_flen +
opt->opt_nflen;
tp->rx_opt.mss_clamp = IPV6_MIN_MTU - sizeof(struct tcphdr) - sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);

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@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ int psp_sock_assoc_set_rx(struct sock *sk, struct psp_assoc *pas,
lock_sock(sk);
if (sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Socket must be in established state");
err = -ENOTCONN;
goto exit_unlock;
}
if (psp_sk_assoc(sk)) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Socket already has PSP state");
err = -EBUSY;
@ -252,6 +258,12 @@ int psp_sock_assoc_set_tx(struct sock *sk, struct psp_dev *psd,
lock_sock(sk);
if (sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Socket must be in established state");
err = -ENOTCONN;
goto exit_unlock;
}
pas = psp_sk_assoc(sk);
if (!pas) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Socket has no Rx key");