From: William Liu <will@willsroot.io>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jhs@mojatatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
kuba@kernel.org, savy@syst3mfailure.io, jiri@resnulli.us,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, horms@kernel.org,
William Liu <will@willsroot.io>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/2] net/sched: Return NULL when htb_lookup_leaf encounters an empty rbtree
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:12:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250714031238.76077-1-will@willsroot.io> (raw)
htb_lookup_leaf has a BUG_ON that can trigger with the following:
tc qdisc del dev lo root
tc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1: htb default 1
tc class add dev lo parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 64bit
tc qdisc add dev lo parent 1:1 handle 2: netem
tc qdisc add dev lo parent 2:1 handle 3: blackhole
ping -I lo -c1 -W0.001 127.0.0.1
The root cause is the following:
1. htb_dequeue calls htb_dequeue_tree which calls the dequeue handler on
the selected leaf qdisc
2. netem_dequeue calls enqueue on the child qdisc
3. blackhole_enqueue drops the packet and returns a value that is not
just NET_XMIT_SUCCESS
4. Because of this, netem_dequeue calls qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog, and
since qlen is now 0, it calls htb_qlen_notify -> htb_deactivate ->
htb_deactiviate_prios -> htb_remove_class_from_row -> htb_safe_rb_erase
5. As this is the only class in the selected hprio rbtree,
__rb_change_child in __rb_erase_augmented sets the rb_root pointer to
NULL
6. Because blackhole_dequeue returns NULL, netem_dequeue returns NULL,
which causes htb_dequeue_tree to call htb_lookup_leaf with the same
hprio rbtree, and fail the BUG_ON
The function graph for this scenario is shown here:
0) | htb_enqueue() {
0) + 13.635 us | netem_enqueue();
0) 4.719 us | htb_activate_prios();
0) # 2249.199 us | }
0) | htb_dequeue() {
0) 2.355 us | htb_lookup_leaf();
0) | netem_dequeue() {
0) + 11.061 us | blackhole_enqueue();
0) | qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() {
0) | qdisc_lookup_rcu() {
0) 1.873 us | qdisc_match_from_root();
0) 6.292 us | }
0) 1.894 us | htb_search();
0) | htb_qlen_notify() {
0) 2.655 us | htb_deactivate_prios();
0) 6.933 us | }
0) + 25.227 us | }
0) 1.983 us | blackhole_dequeue();
0) + 86.553 us | }
0) # 2932.761 us | qdisc_warn_nonwc();
0) | htb_lookup_leaf() {
0) | BUG_ON();
------------------------------------------
The full original bug report can be seen here [1].
We can fix this just by returning NULL instead of the BUG_ON,
as htb_dequeue_tree returns NULL when htb_lookup_leaf returns
NULL.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/pF5XOOIim0IuEfhI-SOxTgRvNoDwuux7UHKnE_Y5-zVd4wmGvNk2ceHjKb8ORnzw0cGwfmVu42g9dL7XyJLf1NEzaztboTWcm0Ogxuojoeo=@willsroot.io/
Fixes: 512bb43eb542 ("pkt_sched: sch_htb: Optimize WARN_ONs in htb_dequeue_tree() etc.")
Signed-off-by: William Liu <will@willsroot.io>
Signed-off-by: Savino Dicanosa <savy@syst3mfailure.io>
---
net/sched/sch_htb.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_htb.c b/net/sched/sch_htb.c
index 14bf71f57057..c968ea763774 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_htb.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_htb.c
@@ -821,7 +821,9 @@ static struct htb_class *htb_lookup_leaf(struct htb_prio *hprio, const int prio)
u32 *pid;
} stk[TC_HTB_MAXDEPTH], *sp = stk;
- BUG_ON(!hprio->row.rb_node);
+ if (unlikely(!hprio->row.rb_node))
+ return NULL;
+
sp->root = hprio->row.rb_node;
sp->pptr = &hprio->ptr;
sp->pid = &hprio->last_ptr_id;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-07-14 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-14 3:12 William Liu [this message]
2025-07-14 3:14 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests/tc-testing: Test htb_dequeue_tree with deactivation and row emptying William Liu
2025-07-16 23:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
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