From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 5/7] net/sched: netem: null-terminate tfifo linear queue tail
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 10:50:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260404095052.GY113102@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260402202037.176299-6-stephen@networkplumber.org>
On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 01:19:33PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> When tfifo_enqueue() appends a packet to the linear queue tail,
> nskb->next is never set to NULL. The list terminates correctly
> only by accident if the skb arrived with next already NULL.
>
> Explicitly null-terminate the tail to prevent list corruption.
>
> Fixes: d66280b12bd7 ("net: netem: use a list in addition to rbtree")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-04 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-02 20:19 [PATCH net v3 0/7] net/sched: netem: bug fixes Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-02 20:19 ` [PATCH net v3 1/7] net/sched: netem: fix probability gaps in 4-state loss model Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-04 9:50 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-02 20:19 ` [PATCH net v3 2/7] net/sched: netem: fix queue limit check to include reordered packets Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-04 9:50 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-02 20:19 ` [PATCH net v3 3/7] net/sched: netem: only reseed PRNG when seed is explicitly provided Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-04 9:50 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-02 20:19 ` [PATCH net v3 4/7] net/sched: netem: restructure dequeue to avoid re-entrancy with child qdisc Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-04 9:49 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-06 15:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-06 17:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-08 16:21 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-02 20:19 ` [PATCH net v3 5/7] net/sched: netem: null-terminate tfifo linear queue tail Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-04 9:50 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-04-02 20:19 ` [PATCH net v3 6/7] net/sched: netem: check for invalid slot range Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-04 9:51 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-02 20:19 ` [PATCH net v3 7/7] net/sched: netem: fix slot delay calculation overflow Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-04 9:51 ` Simon Horman
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