CVE-2026-74696 PUBLISHED

tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration

A listener's TCP_FASTOPEN max_qlen stops being accurate and lets through far more pending Fast Open requests than it was configured for.

This only shows up with SO_REUSEPORT listener migration, where closing a listener hands its still-pending TFO children over to a surviving one.

fastopenq.qlen is charged in tcp_fastopen_create_child() when the child is created and uncharged in reqsk_fastopen_remove() when the handshake completes. The uncharge follows rsk_listener of the request the child points at, and inet_reqsk_clone() has repointed the child at a new request owned by the new listener, so the ++ and the -- land on two different sockets. The new listener's qlen drifts negative and its limit no longer binds.

Charge the new listener during migration, like reqsk_queue_migrated() already does for queue->young and queue->qlen.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to e98f0d80b9cccb5f828425d2004f9686e7d1ae24 (excl.)
  • affected from 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to b6247e0f96bd825ffb2005257f6177b5e642dee6 (excl.)
  • affected from 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to 585fc5247d14939a561056aa2addd9b7c2b1f670 (excl.)
  • affected from 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to 6e10ee56524a26b250229ad348637825646ddb88 (excl.)
  • affected from 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to a66e869cf0c90c1e47ae75f72b6482acbfc808ff (excl.)
  • affected from 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to d974618b2097453778389d385e3741629c40e0a3 (excl.)
  • affected from 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to a0ab2ba83e35159d81cec830a92e885ecf8139be (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.14 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.14 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.216 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.183 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.152 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.104 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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