CVE-2026-43226: net/rds: No shortcut out of RDS_CONN_ERROR
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/rds: No shortcut out of RDS_CONN_ERROR RDS connections carry a state "rds_conn_path::cp_state" and transitions from one state to another and are conditional upon an expected state: "rds_conn_path_transition." There is one exception to this conditionality, which is "RDS_CONN_ERROR" that can be enforced by "rds_conn_path_drop" regardless of what state the condition is currently in. But as soon as a connection enters state "RDS_CONN_ERROR", the connection handling code expects it to go through the shutdown-path. The RDS/TCP multipath changes added a shortcut out of "RDS_CONN_ERROR" straight back to "RDS_CONN_CONNECTING" via "rds_tcp_accept_one_path" (e.g. after "rds_tcp_state_change"). A subsequent "rds_tcp_reset_callbacks" can then transition the state to "RDS_CONN_RESETTING" with a shutdown-worker queued. That'll trip up "rds_conn_init_shutdown", which was never adjusted to handle "RDS_CONN_RESETTING" and subsequently drops the connection with the dreaded "DR_INV_CONN_STATE", which leaves "RDS_SHUTDOWN_WORK_QUEUED" on forever. So we do two things here: a) Don't shortcut "RDS_CONN_ERROR", but take the longer path through the shutdown code. b) Add "RDS_CONN_RESETTING" to the expected states in "rds_conn_init_shutdown" so that we won't error out and get stuck, if we ever hit weird state transitions like this again."
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 9bcd7c00691a2db9745817d5ea79262a503b135c (from 5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca) · < a179ac7be8f5a650d0068040705f4cddd6ca369c (from 5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca) · < 19e384a7d00d888303a8285977cdf1970c6cccd6 (from 5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca) · < f0f729bdffb08af32e0f54521b81b8a9e0321f16 (from 5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca) · < 81248b1eb3c5954cc1fc7b33b7c03e34d20cb8c8 (from 5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca) · < 899ef00963ce76f9fc421a7d02335fe4ead6389b (from 5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca)
- Linux / Linux4.8Fixed in 0, 5.10.252, 5.15.202, 6.1.165, 6.6.128, 6.12.75, 6.18.16, 6.19.6, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H