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 2/3] net/sched: cls_flow: fix NULL pointer dereference on shared blocks
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:02:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331050217.504278-2-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260331050217.504278-1-xmei5@asu.edu>
flow_change() calls tcf_block_q() and dereferences q->handle to derive
a default baseclass. Shared blocks leave block->q NULL, causing a NULL
deref when a flow filter without a fully qualified baseclass is created
on a shared block.
Check tcf_block_shared() before accessing block->q and return -EINVAL
for shared blocks. This avoids the null-deref shown below:
=======================================================================
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]
RIP: 0010:flow_change (net/sched/cls_flow.c:508)
Call Trace:
tc_new_tfilter (net/sched/cls_api.c:2432)
rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6980)
[...]
=======================================================================
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: add error message
net/sched/cls_flow.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_flow.c b/net/sched/cls_flow.c
index 339c664beff6..ab364e4e4686 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_flow.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_flow.c
@@ -503,8 +503,16 @@ static int flow_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *in_skb,
}
if (TC_H_MAJ(baseclass) == 0) {
- struct Qdisc *q = tcf_block_q(tp->chain->block);
+ struct tcf_block *block = tp->chain->block;
+ struct Qdisc *q;
+ if (tcf_block_shared(block)) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
+ "Must specify baseclass when attaching flow filter to block");
+ goto err2;
+ }
+
+ q = tcf_block_q(block);
baseclass = TC_H_MAKE(q->handle, baseclass);
}
if (TC_H_MIN(baseclass) == 0)
--
2.43.0
next prev parent 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 [PATCH net v3 1/3] net/sched: cls_fw: fix NULL pointer dereference on shared blocks Xiang Mei
2026-03-31 5:02 ` Xiang Mei [this message]
2026-04-02 10:34 ` [PATCH net v3 2/3] net/sched: cls_flow: " 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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