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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/net/sched/sch_ets.c, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2026-07-21T01:16:43+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: Handle TC_ACT_REDIRECT from qdisc filter chains</title>
<updated>2026-07-21T01:16:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jamal Hadi Salim</name>
<email>jhs@mojatatu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-06T18:56:08+00:00</published>
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When a TC filter attached to a qdisc filter chain returns
TC_ACT_REDIRECT (ex: via an eBPF program calling bpf_redirect() or an
act_bpf action), the redirect was silently lost i.e no qdisc classify
function handled TC_ACT_REDIRECT, so the packet fell through the
switch and was enqueued normally instead of being redirected.

This has been broken since bpf_redirect() was introduced for TC in
commit 27b29f63058d ("bpf: add bpf_redirect() helper"). We got lucky
for a long time because bpf_net_context was a per-CPU variable that
was always available.

commit 401cb7dae813 ("net: Reference bpf_redirect_info via task_struct
on PREEMPT_RT.") turned bpf_net_context into a task_struct member that
is only set up by explicit callers. Without a caller setting it up,
bpf_redirect() itself crashes with a NULL pointer dereference in
bpf_net_ctx_get_ri(). However, even with bpf_net_context available,
TC_ACT_REDIRECT from qdisc filter chains cannot be honored without
adding skb_do_redirect() calls to every qdisc classify function, which
would require changes across net/sched/. Isolate it to ebpf core where
it belongs.

Instead, add a tcf_classify_qdisc() inline helper in pkt_cls.h, as a
wrapper around tcf_classify() for use by qdisc classify functions and
tcf_qevent_handle(). When the classify verdict is TC_ACT_REDIRECT,
the wrapper converts it to TC_ACT_SHOT, dropping the packet rather
than letting it continue silently. Dropping is preferred over
letting the packet through because the user immediately sees packet
loss. Silently passing the packet through would hide the problem and
leave the user wondering why their redirect is not working.

The clsact fast path, tc_run() continues to call tcf_classify() directly
and is unaffected: TC_ACT_REDIRECT is returned as-is and handled by
sch_handle_egress/ingress() calling skb_do_redirect() as before.

Fixes: 27b29f63058d ("bpf: add bpf_redirect() helper")
Fixes: 401cb7dae813 ("net: Reference bpf_redirect_info via task_struct on PREEMPT_RT.")
Tested-by: Victor Nogueira &lt;victor@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706185609.330006-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: sch_ets: make cl-&gt;quantum lockless</title>
<updated>2026-05-25T18:09:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-22T11:03:56+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
cl-&gt;quantum does not need to be protected by RTNL or qdisc spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Victor Nogueira &lt;victor@mojatatu.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522110356.1403343-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: annotate data-races around sch-&gt;qstats.backlog</title>
<updated>2026-05-12T01:28:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-10T09:14:50+00:00</published>
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Add qstats_backlog_sub() and qstats_backlog_add() helpers
and use them instead of open-coding them.

These helpers use WRITE_ONCE() to prevent store-tearing.

Also use WRITE_ONCE() in fq_reset() and qdisc_reset()
when sch-&gt;qstats.backlog is cleared.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@toke.dk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260510091455.4039245-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: add qdisc_qlen_inc() and qdisc_qlen_dec()</title>
<updated>2026-05-12T01:28:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-10T09:14:49+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Helpers to increment or decrement sch-&gt;q.qlen, with appropriate
WRITE_ONCE() to prevent store tearing.

Add other WRITE_ONCE() when sch-&gt;q.qlen is changed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@toke.dk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260510091455.4039245-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: ets: fix divide by zero in the offload path</title>
<updated>2026-02-27T02:28:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davide Caratti</name>
<email>dcaratti@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-24T20:28:32+00:00</published>
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Offloading ETS requires computing each class' WRR weight: this is done by
averaging over the sums of quanta as 'q_sum' and 'q_psum'. Using unsigned
int, the same integer size as the individual DRR quanta, can overflow and
even cause division by zero, like it happened in the following splat:

 Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
 CPU: 13 UID: 0 PID: 487 Comm: tc Tainted: G            E       6.19.0-virtme #45 PREEMPT(full)
 Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
 RIP: 0010:ets_offload_change+0x11f/0x290 [sch_ets]
 Code: e4 45 31 ff eb 03 41 89 c7 41 89 cb 89 ce 83 f9 0f 0f 87 b7 00 00 00 45 8b 08 31 c0 45 01 cc 45 85 c9 74 09 41 6b c4 64 31 d2 &lt;41&gt; f7 f2 89 c2 44 29 fa 45 89 df 41 83 fb 0f 0f 87 c7 00 00 00 44
 RSP: 0018:ffffd0a180d77588 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 00000000ffffff38 RBX: ffff8d3d482ca000 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffd0a180d77660
 RBP: ffffd0a180d77690 R08: ffff8d3d482ca2d8 R09: 00000000fffffffe
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffffe
 R13: ffff8d3d472f2000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  00007f440b6c2740(0000) GS:ffff8d3dc9803000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000003cdd2000 CR3: 0000000007b58002 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  ets_qdisc_change+0x870/0xf40 [sch_ets]
  qdisc_create+0x12b/0x540
  tc_modify_qdisc+0x6d7/0xbd0
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x168/0x6b0
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x5c/0x110
  netlink_unicast+0x1d6/0x2b0
  netlink_sendmsg+0x22e/0x470
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x38a/0x3c0
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0
  __sys_sendmsg+0x8a/0xf0
  do_syscall_64+0x111/0xf80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 RIP: 0033:0x7f440b81c77e
 Code: 4d 89 d8 e8 d4 bc 00 00 4c 8b 5d f8 41 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 11 c9 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b 45 10 0f 05 &lt;c9&gt; c3 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 e7 e8 13 ff ff ff 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa
 RSP: 002b:00007fff951e4c10 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000481820 RCX: 00007f440b81c77e
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fff951e4cd0 RDI: 0000000000000003
 RBP: 00007fff951e4c20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fff951f4fa8
 R13: 00000000699ddede R14: 00007f440bb01000 R15: 0000000000486980
  &lt;/TASK&gt;
 Modules linked in: sch_ets(E) netdevsim(E)
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
 RIP: 0010:ets_offload_change+0x11f/0x290 [sch_ets]
 Code: e4 45 31 ff eb 03 41 89 c7 41 89 cb 89 ce 83 f9 0f 0f 87 b7 00 00 00 45 8b 08 31 c0 45 01 cc 45 85 c9 74 09 41 6b c4 64 31 d2 &lt;41&gt; f7 f2 89 c2 44 29 fa 45 89 df 41 83 fb 0f 0f 87 c7 00 00 00 44
 RSP: 0018:ffffd0a180d77588 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 00000000ffffff38 RBX: ffff8d3d482ca000 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffd0a180d77660
 RBP: ffffd0a180d77690 R08: ffff8d3d482ca2d8 R09: 00000000fffffffe
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffffe
 R13: ffff8d3d472f2000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  00007f440b6c2740(0000) GS:ffff8d3dc9803000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000003cdd2000 CR3: 0000000007b58002 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
 Kernel Offset: 0x30000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---

Fix this using 64-bit integers for 'q_sum' and 'q_psum'.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d35eb52bd2ac ("net: sch_ets: Make the ETS qdisc offloadable")
Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti &lt;dcaratti@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/28504887df314588c7255e9911769c36f751edee.1771964872.git.dcaratti@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: ets: Remove drr class from the active list if it changes to strict</title>
<updated>2025-12-11T09:36:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Victor Nogueira</name>
<email>victor@mojatatu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-08T19:01:24+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Whenever a user issues an ets qdisc change command, transforming a
drr class into a strict one, the ets code isn't checking whether that
class was in the active list and removing it. This means that, if a
user changes a strict class (which was in the active list) back to a drr
one, that class will be added twice to the active list [1].

Doing so with the following commands:

tc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1: ets bands 2 strict 1
tc qdisc add dev lo parent 1:2 handle 20: \
    tbf rate 8bit burst 100b latency 1s
tc filter add dev lo parent 1: basic classid 1:2
ping -c1 -W0.01 -s 56 127.0.0.1
tc qdisc change dev lo root handle 1: ets bands 2 strict 2
tc qdisc change dev lo root handle 1: ets bands 2 strict 1
ping -c1 -W0.01 -s 56 127.0.0.1

Will trigger the following splat with list debug turned on:

[   59.279014][  T365] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   59.279452][  T365] list_add double add: new=ffff88801d60e350, prev=ffff88801d60e350, next=ffff88801d60e2c0.
[   59.280153][  T365] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 365 at lib/list_debug.c:35 __list_add_valid_or_report+0x17f/0x220
[   59.280860][  T365] Modules linked in:
[   59.281165][  T365] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 365 Comm: tc Not tainted 6.18.0-rc7-00105-g7e9f13163c13-dirty #239 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[   59.281977][  T365] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[   59.282391][  T365] RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0x17f/0x220
[   59.282842][  T365] Code: 89 c6 e8 d4 b7 0d ff 90 0f 0b 90 90 31 c0 e9 31 ff ff ff 90 48 c7 c7 e0 a0 22 9f 48 89 f2 48 89 c1 4c 89 c6 e8 b2 b7 0d ff 90 &lt;0f&gt; 0b 90 90 31 c0 e9 0f ff ff ff 48 89 f7 48 89 44 24 10 4c 89 44
...
[   59.288812][  T365] Call Trace:
[   59.289056][  T365]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[   59.289224][  T365]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[   59.289546][  T365]  ets_qdisc_change+0xd2b/0x1e80
[   59.289891][  T365]  ? __lock_acquire+0x7e7/0x1be0
[   59.290223][  T365]  ? __pfx_ets_qdisc_change+0x10/0x10
[   59.290546][  T365]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[   59.290898][  T365]  ? __mutex_trylock_common+0xda/0x240
[   59.291228][  T365]  ? __pfx___mutex_trylock_common+0x10/0x10
[   59.291655][  T365]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[   59.291993][  T365]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[   59.292313][  T365]  ? trace_contention_end+0xc8/0x110
[   59.292656][  T365]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[   59.293022][  T365]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[   59.293351][  T365]  tc_modify_qdisc+0x63a/0x1cf0

Fix this by always checking and removing an ets class from the active list
when changing it to strict.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/tree/net/sched/sch_ets.c?id=ce052b9402e461a9aded599f5b47e76bc727f7de#n663

Fixes: cd9b50adc6bb9 ("net/sched: ets: fix crash when flipping from 'strict' to 'quantum'")
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira &lt;victor@mojatatu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251208190125.1868423-1-victor@mojatatu.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: ets: Always remove class from active list before deleting in ets_qdisc_change</title>
<updated>2025-12-04T10:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jamal Hadi Salim</name>
<email>jhs@mojatatu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-28T15:19:19+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com says:

The vulnerability is a race condition between `ets_qdisc_dequeue` and
`ets_qdisc_change`.  It leads to UAF on `struct Qdisc` object.
Attacker requires the capability to create new user and network namespace
in order to trigger the bug.
See my additional commentary at the end of the analysis.

Analysis:

static int ets_qdisc_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt,
                          struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
...

      // (1) this lock is preventing .change handler (`ets_qdisc_change`)
      //to race with .dequeue handler (`ets_qdisc_dequeue`)
      sch_tree_lock(sch);

      for (i = nbands; i &lt; oldbands; i++) {
              if (i &gt;= q-&gt;nstrict &amp;&amp; q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc-&gt;q.qlen)
                      list_del_init(&amp;q-&gt;classes[i].alist);
              qdisc_purge_queue(q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc);
      }

      WRITE_ONCE(q-&gt;nbands, nbands);
      for (i = nstrict; i &lt; q-&gt;nstrict; i++) {
              if (q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc-&gt;q.qlen) {
		      // (2) the class is added to the q-&gt;active
                      list_add_tail(&amp;q-&gt;classes[i].alist, &amp;q-&gt;active);
                      q-&gt;classes[i].deficit = quanta[i];
              }
      }
      WRITE_ONCE(q-&gt;nstrict, nstrict);
      memcpy(q-&gt;prio2band, priomap, sizeof(priomap));

      for (i = 0; i &lt; q-&gt;nbands; i++)
              WRITE_ONCE(q-&gt;classes[i].quantum, quanta[i]);

      for (i = oldbands; i &lt; q-&gt;nbands; i++) {
              q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc = queues[i];
              if (q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc != &amp;noop_qdisc)
                      qdisc_hash_add(q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc, true);
      }

      // (3) the qdisc is unlocked, now dequeue can be called in parallel
      // to the rest of .change handler
      sch_tree_unlock(sch);

      ets_offload_change(sch);
      for (i = q-&gt;nbands; i &lt; oldbands; i++) {
	      // (4) we're reducing the refcount for our class's qdisc and
	      //  freeing it
              qdisc_put(q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc);
	      // (5) If we call .dequeue between (4) and (5), we will have
	      // a strong UAF and we can control RIP
              q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc = NULL;
              WRITE_ONCE(q-&gt;classes[i].quantum, 0);
              q-&gt;classes[i].deficit = 0;
              gnet_stats_basic_sync_init(&amp;q-&gt;classes[i].bstats);
              memset(&amp;q-&gt;classes[i].qstats, 0, sizeof(q-&gt;classes[i].qstats));
      }
      return 0;
}

Comment:
This happens because some of the classes have their qdiscs assigned to
NULL, but remain in the active list. This commit fixes this issue by always
removing the class from the active list before deleting and freeing its
associated qdisc

Reproducer Steps
(trimmed version of what was sent by zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com)

```
DEV="${DEV:-lo}"
ROOT_HANDLE="${ROOT_HANDLE:-1:}"
BAND2_HANDLE="${BAND2_HANDLE:-20:}"   # child under 1:2
PING_BYTES="${PING_BYTES:-48}"
PING_COUNT="${PING_COUNT:-200000}"
PING_DST="${PING_DST:-127.0.0.1}"

SLOW_TBF_RATE="${SLOW_TBF_RATE:-8bit}"
SLOW_TBF_BURST="${SLOW_TBF_BURST:-100b}"
SLOW_TBF_LAT="${SLOW_TBF_LAT:-1s}"

cleanup() {
  tc qdisc del dev "$DEV" root 2&gt;/dev/null
}
trap cleanup EXIT

ip link set "$DEV" up

tc qdisc del dev "$DEV" root 2&gt;/dev/null || true

tc qdisc add dev "$DEV" root handle "$ROOT_HANDLE" ets bands 2 strict 2

tc qdisc add dev "$DEV" parent 1:2 handle "$BAND2_HANDLE" \
  tbf rate "$SLOW_TBF_RATE" burst "$SLOW_TBF_BURST" latency "$SLOW_TBF_LAT"

tc filter add dev "$DEV" parent 1: protocol all prio 1 u32 match u32 0 0 flowid 1:2
tc -s qdisc ls dev $DEV

ping -I "$DEV" -f -c "$PING_COUNT" -s "$PING_BYTES" -W 0.001 "$PING_DST" \
  &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;
tc qdisc change dev "$DEV" root handle "$ROOT_HANDLE" ets bands 2 strict 0
tc qdisc change dev "$DEV" root handle "$ROOT_HANDLE" ets bands 2 strict 2
tc -s qdisc ls dev $DEV
tc qdisc del dev "$DEV" parent 1:2 || true
tc -s qdisc ls dev $DEV
tc qdisc change dev "$DEV" root handle "$ROOT_HANDLE" ets bands 1 strict 1
```

KASAN report
```
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ets_qdisc_dequeue+0x1071/0x11b0 kernel/net/sched/sch_ets.c:481
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880502fc018 by task ping/12308
&gt;
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12308 Comm: ping Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4-dirty #1 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 25.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 __dump_stack kernel/lib/dump_stack.c:94
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 kernel/lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description kernel/mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x156/0x4c9 kernel/mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x110 kernel/mm/kasan/report.c:595
 ets_qdisc_dequeue+0x1071/0x11b0 kernel/net/sched/sch_ets.c:481
 dequeue_skb kernel/net/sched/sch_generic.c:294
 qdisc_restart kernel/net/sched/sch_generic.c:399
 __qdisc_run+0x1c9/0x1b00 kernel/net/sched/sch_generic.c:417
 __dev_xmit_skb kernel/net/core/dev.c:4221
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x2848/0x4410 kernel/net/core/dev.c:4729
 dev_queue_xmit kernel/./include/linux/netdevice.h:3365
[...]

Allocated by task 17115:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kernel/mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 kernel/mm/kasan/common.c:77
 poison_kmalloc_redzone kernel/mm/kasan/common.c:400
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 kernel/mm/kasan/common.c:417
 kasan_kmalloc kernel/./include/linux/kasan.h:262
 __do_kmalloc_node kernel/mm/slub.c:5642
 __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x34e/0x990 kernel/mm/slub.c:5648
 kmalloc_node_noprof kernel/./include/linux/slab.h:987
 qdisc_alloc+0xb8/0xc30 kernel/net/sched/sch_generic.c:950
 qdisc_create_dflt+0x93/0x490 kernel/net/sched/sch_generic.c:1012
 ets_class_graft+0x4fd/0x800 kernel/net/sched/sch_ets.c:261
 qdisc_graft+0x3e4/0x1780 kernel/net/sched/sch_api.c:1196
[...]

Freed by task 9905:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kernel/mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 kernel/mm/kasan/common.c:77
 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 kernel/mm/kasan/generic.c:587
 kasan_save_free_info kernel/mm/kasan/kasan.h:406
 poison_slab_object kernel/mm/kasan/common.c:252
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 kernel/mm/kasan/common.c:284
 kasan_slab_free kernel/./include/linux/kasan.h:234
 slab_free_hook kernel/mm/slub.c:2539
 slab_free kernel/mm/slub.c:6630
 kfree+0x144/0x700 kernel/mm/slub.c:6837
 rcu_do_batch kernel/kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605
 rcu_core+0x7c0/0x1500 kernel/kernel/rcu/tree.c:2861
 handle_softirqs+0x1ea/0x8a0 kernel/kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/kernel/softirq.c:656
[...]

Commentary:

1. Maher Azzouzi working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative was reported as
the person who found the issue. I requested to get a proper email to add to the
reported-by tag but got no response. For this reason i will credit the person
i exchanged emails with i.e zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com

2. Neither i nor Victor who did a much more thorough testing was able to
reproduce a UAF with the PoC or other approaches we tried. We were both able to
reproduce a null ptr deref. After exchange with zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com
they sent a small change to be made to the code to add an extra delay which
was able to simulate the UAF. i.e, this:
   qdisc_put(q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc);
   mdelay(90);
   q-&gt;classes[i].qdisc = NULL;

I was informed by Thomas Gleixner(tglx@linutronix.de) that adding delays was
acceptable approach for demonstrating the bug, quote:
"Adding such delays is common exploit validation practice"
The equivalent delay could happen "by virt scheduling the vCPU out, SMIs,
NMIs, PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel"

3. I asked the OP to test and report back but got no response and after a
few days gave up and proceeded to submit this fix.

Fixes: de6d25924c2a ("net/sched: sch_ets: don't peek at classes beyond 'nbands'")
Reported-by: zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com
Tested-by: Victor Nogueira &lt;victor@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davide Caratti &lt;dcaratti@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251128151919.576920-1-jhs@mojatatu.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: ets: use old 'nbands' while purging unused classes</title>
<updated>2025-08-14T01:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davide Caratti</name>
<email>dcaratti@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-12T16:40:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.rulkc.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=87c6efc5ce9c126ae4a781bc04504b83780e3650'/>
<id>urn:sha1:87c6efc5ce9c126ae4a781bc04504b83780e3650</id>
<content type='text'>
Shuang reported sch_ets test-case [1] crashing in ets_class_qlen_notify()
after recent changes from Lion [2]. The problem is: in ets_qdisc_change()
we purge unused DWRR queues; the value of 'q-&gt;nbands' is the new one, and
the cleanup should be done with the old one. The problem is here since my
first attempts to fix ets_qdisc_change(), but it surfaced again after the
recent qdisc len accounting fixes. Fix it purging idle DWRR queues before
assigning a new value of 'q-&gt;nbands', so that all purge operations find a
consistent configuration:

 - old 'q-&gt;nbands' because it's needed by ets_class_find()
 - old 'q-&gt;nstrict' because it's needed by ets_class_is_strict()

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 62 UID: 0 PID: 39457 Comm: tc Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.12.0-116.el10.x86_64 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/06DKY5, BIOS 2.12.2 07/09/2021
 RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4/0x80
 Code: ff 4c 39 c7 0f 84 39 19 8e ff b8 01 00 00 00 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa &lt;48&gt; 8b 17 48 8b 4f 08 48 85 d2 0f 84 56 19 8e ff 48 85 c9 0f 84 ab
 RSP: 0018:ffffba186009f400 EFLAGS: 00010202
 RAX: 00000000000000d6 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000004
 RDX: ffff9f0fa29b69c0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: ffffffffc12c2400 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000004
 R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: ffff9f0f8cfe0000 R14: 0000000000100005 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  00007f2154f37480(0000) GS:ffff9f269c1c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001530be001 CR4: 00000000007726f0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  ets_class_qlen_notify+0x65/0x90 [sch_ets]
  qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog+0x74/0x110
  ets_qdisc_change+0x630/0xa40 [sch_ets]
  __tc_modify_qdisc.constprop.0+0x216/0x7f0
  tc_modify_qdisc+0x7c/0x120
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x145/0x3f0
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x53/0x100
  netlink_unicast+0x245/0x390
  netlink_sendmsg+0x21b/0x470
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x39d/0x3d0
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0
  __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0
  do_syscall_64+0x7d/0x160
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
 RIP: 0033:0x7f2155114084
 Code: 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff eb bb 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d 25 f0 0c 00 00 74 13 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 c3 0f 1f 00 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 89
 RSP: 002b:00007fff1fd7a988 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000560ec063e5e0 RCX: 00007f2155114084
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fff1fd7a9f0 RDI: 0000000000000003
 RBP: 00007fff1fd7aa60 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 000000000000003f
 R10: 0000560ee9b3a010 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fff1fd7aae0
 R13: 000000006891ccde R14: 0000560ec063e5e0 R15: 00007fff1fd7aad0
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/e08c7f4a6882f260011909a868311c6e9b54f3e4.1639153474.git.dcaratti@redhat.com/
 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/d912cbd7-193b-4269-9857-525bee8bbb6a@gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 103406b38c60 ("net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty")
Fixes: c062f2a0b04d ("net/sched: sch_ets: don't remove idle classes from the round-robin list")
Fixes: dcc68b4d8084 ("net: sch_ets: Add a new Qdisc")
Reported-by: Li Shuang &lt;shuali@redhat.com&gt;
Closes: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-108026
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Ivan Vecera &lt;ivecera@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera &lt;ivecera@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti &lt;dcaratti@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7928ff6d17db47a2ae7cc205c44777b1f1950545.1755016081.git.dcaratti@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net_sched: ets: fix a race in ets_qdisc_change()</title>
<updated>2025-06-12T15:05:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-11T11:15:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.rulkc.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d92adacdd8c2960be856e0b82acc5b7c5395fddb'/>
<id>urn:sha1:d92adacdd8c2960be856e0b82acc5b7c5395fddb</id>
<content type='text'>
Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in ETS, whenever SFQ perturb timer
fires at the wrong time.

The race is as follows:

CPU 0                                 CPU 1
[1]: lock root
[2]: qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
[3]: unlock root
 |
 |                                    [5]: lock root
 |                                    [6]: rehash
 |                                    [7]: qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
 |
[4]: qdisc_put()

This can be abused to underflow a parent's qlen.

Calling qdisc_purge_queue() instead of qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
should fix the race, because all packets will be purged from the qdisc
before releasing the lock.

Fixes: b05972f01e7d ("net: sched: tbf: don't call qdisc_put() while holding tree lock")
Reported-by: Gerrard Tai &lt;gerrard.tai@starlabs.sg&gt;
Suggested-by: Gerrard Tai &lt;gerrard.tai@starlabs.sg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250611111515.1983366-5-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net_sched: ets: Fix double list add in class with netem as child qdisc</title>
<updated>2025-04-28T22:55:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Victor Nogueira</name>
<email>victor@mojatatu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-25T22:07:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.rulkc.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1a6d0c00fa07972384b0c308c72db091d49988b6'/>
<id>urn:sha1:1a6d0c00fa07972384b0c308c72db091d49988b6</id>
<content type='text'>
As described in Gerrard's report [1], there are use cases where a netem
child qdisc will make the parent qdisc's enqueue callback reentrant.
In the case of ets, there won't be a UAF, but the code will add the same
classifier to the list twice, which will cause memory corruption.

In addition to checking for qlen being zero, this patch checks whether
the class was already added to the active_list (cl_is_active) before
doing the addition to cater for the reentrant case.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHcdcOm+03OD2j6R0=YHKqmy=VgJ8xEOKuP6c7mSgnp-TEJJbw@mail.gmail.com/

Fixes: 37d9cf1a3ce3 ("sched: Fix detection of empty queues in child qdiscs")
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira &lt;victor@mojatatu.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250425220710.3964791-4-victor@mojatatu.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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