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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49142"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:55:12.823Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:54:46.990Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49142"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49142.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49142"
title: "net: preserve skb_end_offset() in skb_unclone_keeptruesize()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: preserve skb_end_offset() in skb_unclone_keeptruesize()\n\nsyzbot found another way to trigger the infamous WARN_ON_ONCE(delta \u003c len)\nin skb_try_coalesce() [1]\n\nI was able to root cause the issue to kfence.\n\nWhen kfence is in action, the following assertion is no longer true:\n\nint size = xxxx;\nvoid *ptr1 = kmalloc(size, gfp);\nvoid *ptr2 = kmalloc(size, gfp);\n\nif (ptr1 && ptr2)\n\tASSERT(ksize(ptr1) == ksize(ptr2));\n\nWe attempted to fix these issues in the blamed commits, but forgot\nthat TCP was possibly shifting data after skb_unclone_keeptruesize()\nhas been used, notably from tcp_retrans_try_collapse().\n\nSo we not only need to keep same skb-\u003etruesize value,\nwe also need to make sure TCP wont fill new tailroom\nthat pskb_expand_head() was able to get from a\naddr = kmalloc(...) followed by ksize(addr)\n\nSplit skb_unclone_keeptruesize() into two parts:\n\n1) Inline skb_unclone_keeptruesize() for the common case,\n   when skb is not cloned.\n\n2) Out of line __skb_unclone_keeptruesize() for the 'slow path'.\n\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6490 at net/core/skbuff.c:5295 skb_try_coalesce+0x1235/0x1560 net/core/skbuff.c:5295\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 1 PID: 6490 Comm: syz-executor161 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc4-syzkaller-00229-g4f12b742eb2b #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011\nRIP: 0010:skb_try_coalesce+0x1235/0x1560 net/core/skbuff.c:5295\nCode: bf 01 00 00 00 0f b7 c0 89 c6 89 44 24 20 e8 62 24 4e fa 8b 44 24 20 83 e8 01 0f 85 e5 f0 ff ff e9 87 f4 ff ff e8 cb 20 4e fa \u003c0f\u003e 0b e9 06 f9 ff ff e8 af b2 95 fa e9 69 f0 ff ff e8 95 b2 95 fa\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900063af268 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000ffffffd5 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff88806fc05700 RSI: ffffffff872abd55 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: ffff88806e675500 R08: 00000000ffffffd5 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: ffffffff872ab659 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88806dd554e8\nR13: ffff88806dd9bac0 R14: ffff88806dd9a2c0 R15: 0000000000000155\nFS:  00007f18014f9700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000020002000 CR3: 000000006be7a000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n tcp_try_coalesce net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4651 [inline]\n tcp_try_coalesce+0x393/0x920 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4630\n tcp_queue_rcv+0x8a/0x6e0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4914\n tcp_data_queue+0x11fd/0x4bb0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5025\n tcp_rcv_established+0x81e/0x1ff0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5947\n tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x65e/0x980 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1719\n sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1037 [inline]\n __release_sock+0x134/0x3b0 net/core/sock.c:2779\n release_sock+0x54/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3311\n sk_wait_data+0x177/0x450 net/core/sock.c:2821\n tcp_recvmsg_locked+0xe28/0x1fd0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2457\n tcp_recvmsg+0x137/0x610 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2572\n inet_recvmsg+0x11b/0x5e0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:850\n sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:948 [inline]\n sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:966 [inline]\n sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:962 [inline]\n ____sys_recvmsg+0x2c4/0x600 net/socket.c:2632\n ___sys_recvmsg+0x127/0x200 net/socket.c:2674\n __sys_recvmsg+0xe2/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2704\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae"
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