# CVE-2022-49018: mptcp: fix sleep in atomic at close time

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.20
- Published: 2024-10-21 · Updated: 2026-05-23

## Affected

- Linux: from 5.19.14, fixed in 5.20
- Linux: 6.0

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix sleep in atomic at close time Matt reported a splat at msk close time: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/mptcp/protocol.c:2877 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 155, name: packetdrill preempt_count: 201, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 4 locks held by packetdrill/155: #0: ffff888001536990 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#6){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __sock_release (net/socket.c:650) #1: ffff88800b498130 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2973) #2: ffff88800b49a130 (sk_lock-AF_INET/1){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __mptcp_close_ssk (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2363) #3: ffff88800b49a0b0 (slock-AF_INET){+...}-{2:2}, at: __lock_sock_fast (include/net/sock.h:1820) Preemption disabled at: 0x0 CPU: 1 PID: 155 Comm: packetdrill Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5 #365 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 4)) __might_resched.cold (kernel/sched/core.c:9891) __mptcp_destroy_sock (include/linux/kernel.h:110) __mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2959) mptcp_subflow_queue_clean (include/net/sock.h:1777) __mptcp_close_ssk (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2363) mptcp_destroy_common (net/mptcp/protocol.c:3170) mptcp_destroy (include/net/sock.h:1495) __mptcp_destroy_sock (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2886) __mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2959) mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2974) inet_release (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:432) __sock_release (net/socket.c:651) sock_close (net/socket.c:1367) __fput (fs/file_table.c:320) task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:181 (discriminator 1)) exit_to_user_mode_prepare (include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49) syscall_exit_to_user_mode (kernel/entry/common.c:130) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:87) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) We can't call mptcp_close under the 'fast' socket lock variant, replace it with a sock_lock_nested() as the relevant code is already under the listening msk socket lock protection.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (5.20) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8e6c5500dbf0f3e87aace90d4beba6ae928e866
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4f166651d03b5484fa179817ba8ad4899a5a6ac

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