From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: kuba@kernel.org
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jhs@mojatatu.com,
Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@gmail.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:55:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260313065531.98639-1-daniel@iogearbox.net> (raw)
Fix a use-after-free in the clsact qdisc upon init/destroy rollback asymmetry.
The latter is achieved by first fully initializing a clsact instance, and
then in a second step having a replacement failure for the new clsact qdisc
instance. clsact_init() initializes ingress first and then takes care of the
egress part. This can fail midway, for example, via tcf_block_get_ext(). Upon
failure, the kernel will trigger the clsact_destroy() callback.
Commit 1cb6f0bae504 ("bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry") details the
way how the transition is happening. If tcf_block_get_ext on the q->ingress_block
ends up failing, we took the tcx_miniq_inc reference count on the ingress
side, but not yet on the egress side. clsact_destroy() tests whether the
{ingress,egress}_entry was non-NULL. However, even in midway failure on the
replacement, both are in fact non-NULL with a valid egress_entry from the
previous clsact instance.
What we really need to test for is whether the qdisc instance-specific ingress
or egress side previously got initialized. This adds a small helper for checking
the miniq initialization called mini_qdisc_pair_inited, and utilizes that upon
clsact_destroy() in order to fix the use-after-free scenario. Convert the
ingress_destroy() side as well so both are consistent to each other.
Fixes: 1cb6f0bae504 ("bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry")
Reported-by: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
---
include/net/sch_generic.h | 5 +++++
net/sched/sch_ingress.c | 14 ++++++++------
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index d5d55cb21686..beeacf2a1229 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -1429,6 +1429,11 @@ void mini_qdisc_pair_init(struct mini_Qdisc_pair *miniqp, struct Qdisc *qdisc,
void mini_qdisc_pair_block_init(struct mini_Qdisc_pair *miniqp,
struct tcf_block *block);
+static inline bool mini_qdisc_pair_inited(struct mini_Qdisc_pair *miniqp)
+{
+ return !!miniqp->p_miniq;
+}
+
void mq_change_real_num_tx(struct Qdisc *sch, unsigned int new_real_tx);
int sch_frag_xmit_hook(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*xmit)(struct sk_buff *skb));
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_ingress.c b/net/sched/sch_ingress.c
index cc6051d4f2ef..c3e18bae8fbf 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_ingress.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_ingress.c
@@ -113,14 +113,15 @@ static void ingress_destroy(struct Qdisc *sch)
{
struct ingress_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
struct net_device *dev = qdisc_dev(sch);
- struct bpf_mprog_entry *entry = rtnl_dereference(dev->tcx_ingress);
+ struct bpf_mprog_entry *entry;
if (sch->parent != TC_H_INGRESS)
return;
tcf_block_put_ext(q->block, sch, &q->block_info);
- if (entry) {
+ if (mini_qdisc_pair_inited(&q->miniqp)) {
+ entry = rtnl_dereference(dev->tcx_ingress);
tcx_miniq_dec(entry);
if (!tcx_entry_is_active(entry)) {
tcx_entry_update(dev, NULL, true);
@@ -290,10 +291,9 @@ static int clsact_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt,
static void clsact_destroy(struct Qdisc *sch)
{
+ struct bpf_mprog_entry *ingress_entry, *egress_entry;
struct clsact_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
struct net_device *dev = qdisc_dev(sch);
- struct bpf_mprog_entry *ingress_entry = rtnl_dereference(dev->tcx_ingress);
- struct bpf_mprog_entry *egress_entry = rtnl_dereference(dev->tcx_egress);
if (sch->parent != TC_H_CLSACT)
return;
@@ -301,7 +301,8 @@ static void clsact_destroy(struct Qdisc *sch)
tcf_block_put_ext(q->ingress_block, sch, &q->ingress_block_info);
tcf_block_put_ext(q->egress_block, sch, &q->egress_block_info);
- if (ingress_entry) {
+ if (mini_qdisc_pair_inited(&q->miniqp_ingress)) {
+ ingress_entry = rtnl_dereference(dev->tcx_ingress);
tcx_miniq_dec(ingress_entry);
if (!tcx_entry_is_active(ingress_entry)) {
tcx_entry_update(dev, NULL, true);
@@ -309,7 +310,8 @@ static void clsact_destroy(struct Qdisc *sch)
}
}
- if (egress_entry) {
+ if (mini_qdisc_pair_inited(&q->miniqp_egress)) {
+ egress_entry = rtnl_dereference(dev->tcx_egress);
tcx_miniq_dec(egress_entry);
if (!tcx_entry_is_active(egress_entry)) {
tcx_entry_update(dev, NULL, false);
--
2.43.0
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2026-03-13 6:55 Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2026-03-13 18:31 ` [PATCH net] clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry Martin KaFai Lau
2026-03-17 11:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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