CVE-2023-53121

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

tcp: tcpmakesynack() can be called from process context

tcprtxsynack() now could be called in process context as explained in 0a375c822497 ("tcp: tcprtxsynack() can be called from process context").

tcprtxsynack() might call tcpmakesynack(), which will touch per-CPU variables with preemption enabled. This causes the following BUG:

BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: ThriftIO1/5464
caller is tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x10d/0x1a0
 check_preemption_disabled+0x104/0x110
 tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0
 tcp_v6_send_synack+0x5c/0x450
 tcp_rtx_synack+0xeb/0x1f0
 inet_rtx_syn_ack+0x34/0x60
 tcp_check_req+0x3af/0x9e0
 tcp_rcv_state_process+0x59b/0x2030
 tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x5f5/0x700
 release_sock+0x3a/0xf0
 tcp_sendmsg+0x33/0x40
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x2f2/0x490
 __sys_sendmsg+0x184/0x230
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90

Avoid calling __TCPINCSTATS() with will touch per-cpu variables. Use TCPINCSTATS() which is safe to be called from context switch.