nvmet-tcp: don't restore null sk_state_change
CVE: CVE-2025-38035
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-476
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 4.7/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2025-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

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

nvmet-tcp: don't restore null sk_state_change

queue->state_change is set as part of nvmet_tcp_set_queue_sock(), but if
the TCP connection isn't established when nvmet_tcp_set_queue_sock() is
called then queue->state_change isn't set and sock->sk->sk_state_change
isn't replaced.

As such we don't need to restore sock->sk->sk_state_change if
queue->state_change is NULL.

This avoids NULL pointer dereferences such as this:

[  286.462026][    C0] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[  286.462814][    C0] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
[  286.463796][    C0] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
[  286.464392][    C0] PGD 8000000140620067 P4D 8000000140620067 PUD 114201067 PMD 0
[  286.465086][    C0] Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
[  286.465559][    C0] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1628 Comm: nvme Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2+ #11 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[  286.466393][    C0] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014
[  286.467147][    C0] RIP: 0010:0x0
[  286.467420][    C0] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
[  286.467977][    C0] RSP: 0018:ffff8883ae008580 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  286.468425][    C0] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88813fd34100 RCX: ffffffffa386cc43
[  286.469019][    C0] RDX: 1ffff11027fa68b6 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88813fd34100
[  286.469545][    C0] RBP: ffff88813fd34160 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffed1027fa682c
[  286.470072][    C0] R10: ffff88813fd34167 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88813fd344c3
[  286.470585][    C0] R13: ffff88813fd34112 R14: ffff88813fd34aec R15: ffff888132cdd268
[  286.471070][    C0] FS:  00007fe3c04c7d80(0000) GS:ffff88840743f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  286.471644][    C0] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  286.472543][    C0] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000012daca000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[  286.473500][    C0] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  286.474467][    C0] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  286.475453][    C0] Call Trace:
[  286.476102][    C0]  <IRQ>
[  286.476719][    C0]  tcp_fin+0x2bb/0x440
[  286.477429][    C0]  tcp_data_queue+0x190f/0x4e60
[  286.478174][    C0]  ? __build_skb_around+0x234/0x330
[  286.478940][    C0]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0xb0
[  286.479659][    C0]  ? __pfx_tcp_data_queue+0x10/0x10
[  286.480431][    C0]  ? tcp_try_undo_loss+0x640/0x6c0
[  286.481196][    C0]  ? seqcount_lockdep_reader_access.constprop.0+0x82/0x90
[  286.482046][    C0]  ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x14/0x30
[  286.482769][    C0]  ? ktime_get+0x66/0x150
[  286.483433][    C0]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0xb0
[  286.484146][    C0]  tcp_rcv_established+0x6e4/0x2050
[  286.484857][    C0]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0xb0
[  286.485523][    C0]  ? ipv4_dst_check+0x160/0x2b0
[  286.486203][    C0]  ? __pfx_tcp_rcv_established+0x10/0x10
[  286.486917][    C0]  ? lock_release+0x217/0x2c0
[  286.487595][    C0]  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x4d6/0x9b0
[  286.488279][    C0]  tcp_v4_rcv+0x2af8/0x3e30
[  286.488904][    C0]  ? raw_local_deliver+0x51b/0xad0
[  286.489551][    C0]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0xb0
[  286.490198][    C0]  ? __pfx_tcp_v4_rcv+0x10/0x10
[  286.490813][    C0]  ? __pfx_raw_local_deliver+0x10/0x10
[  286.491487][    C0]  ? __pfx_nf_confirm+0x10/0x10 [nf_conntrack]
[  286.492275][    C0]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0xb0
[  286.492900][    C0]  ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x8f/0x370
[  286.493579][    C0]  ip_local_deliver_finish+0x297/0x420
[  286.494268][    C0]  ip_local_deliver+0x168/0x430
[  286.494867][    C0]  ? __pfx_ip_local_deliver+0x10/0x10
[  286.495498][    C0]  ? __pfx_ip_local_deliver_finish+0x10/0x10
[  286.496204][    C0]  ? ip_rcv_finish_core+0x19a/0x1f20
[  286.496806][    C0]  ? lock_release+0x217/0x2c0
[  286.497414][    C0]  ip_rcv+0x455/0x6e0
[  286.497945][    C0]  ? __pfx_ip_rcv+0x10/0x10
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