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From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jhs@mojatatu.com, jiri@resnulli.us, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, horms@kernel.org,
	shuah@kernel.org, bestswngs@gmail.com, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net v3 1/3] net/sched: cls_fw: fix NULL pointer dereference on shared blocks
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:02:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331050217.504278-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)

The old-method path in fw_classify() calls tcf_block_q() and
dereferences q->handle.  Shared blocks leave block->q NULL, causing a
NULL deref when an empty cls_fw filter is attached to a shared block
and a packet with a nonzero major skb mark is classified.

Reject the configuration in fw_change() when the old method (no
TCA_OPTIONS) is used on a shared block, since fw_classify()'s
old-method path needs block->q which is NULL for shared blocks.

The fixed null-ptr-deref calling stack:
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]
 RIP: 0010:fw_classify (net/sched/cls_fw.c:81)
 Call Trace:
  tcf_classify (./include/net/tc_wrapper.h:197 net/sched/cls_api.c:1764 net/sched/cls_api.c:1860)
  tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4401)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4535 net/core/dev.c:4790)

Fixes: 1abf272022cf ("net: sched: tcindex, fw, flow: use tcf_block_q helper to get struct Qdisc")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
v2: Correct 3/3 selftest case
v3: Avoid the bug earlier in fw_change

 net/sched/cls_fw.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_fw.c b/net/sched/cls_fw.c
index be81c108179d..23884ef8b80c 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_fw.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_fw.c
@@ -247,8 +247,18 @@ static int fw_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *in_skb,
 	struct nlattr *tb[TCA_FW_MAX + 1];
 	int err;
 
-	if (!opt)
-		return handle ? -EINVAL : 0; /* Succeed if it is old method. */
+	if (!opt) {
+		if (handle)
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		if (tcf_block_shared(tp->chain->block)) {
+			NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
+				       "Must specify mark when attaching fw filter to block");
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+
+		return 0; /* Succeed if it is old method. */
+	}
 
 	err = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(tb, TCA_FW_MAX, opt, fw_policy,
 					  NULL);
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-31  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-31  5:02 Xiang Mei [this message]
2026-03-31  5:02 ` [PATCH net v3 2/3] net/sched: cls_flow: fix NULL pointer dereference on shared blocks Xiang Mei
2026-04-02 10:34   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2026-03-31  5:02 ` [PATCH net v3 3/3] selftests/tc-testing: add tests for cls_fw and cls_flow " Xiang Mei
2026-04-02 10:34   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2026-04-02 10:36   ` Victor Nogueira
2026-04-02 10:33 ` [PATCH net v3 1/3] net/sched: cls_fw: fix NULL pointer dereference " Jamal Hadi Salim
2026-04-02 13:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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