From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jiri@resnulli.us, jhs@mojatatu.com, horms@kernel.org,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: [PATCH v8 net 0/6] netem: bug fixes
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:19:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260418032027.900913-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
These bugs were found when doing AI-assisted review of sch_netem.c
during investigation of the packet duplication recursion problem
addressed in Jamal's series.
The fixes cover:
- probability gaps in the 4-state Markov loss model
- queue limit not accounting for reordered packets
- PRNG reseeded on every tc change, breaking reproducibility
- slot configuration not validated (inverted ranges, negative
delays, negative limits)
- slot delay arithmetic overflow for ranges above ~2.1 seconds
- negative latency and jitter wrapping to huge time_to_send
values via u64 arithmetic
v8 - added check for negative TCA_NETEM_LATENCY64 and TCA_NETEM_JITTER64
- extended slot validation to cover dist_delay, dist_jitter,
max_packets and max_bytes
Stephen Hemminger (6):
net/sched: netem: fix probability gaps in 4-state loss model
net/sched: netem: fix queue limit check to include reordered packets
net/sched: netem: only reseed PRNG when seed is explicitly provided
net/sched: netem: validate slot configuration
net/sched: netem: fix slot delay calculation overflow
net/sched: netem: check for negative latency and jitter
net/sched/sch_netem.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-18 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-18 3:19 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2026-04-18 3:19 ` [PATCH net v8 1/6] net/sched: netem: fix probability gaps in 4-state loss model Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-18 3:19 ` [PATCH net v8 2/6] net/sched: netem: fix queue limit check to include reordered packets Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-21 13:15 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-18 3:19 ` [PATCH net v8 3/6] net/sched: netem: only reseed PRNG when seed is explicitly provided Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-18 3:19 ` [PATCH net v8 4/6] net/sched: netem: validate slot configuration Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-21 13:10 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-18 3:19 ` [PATCH net v8 5/6] net/sched: netem: fix slot delay calculation overflow Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-18 3:19 ` [PATCH net v8 6/6] net/sched: netem: check for negative latency and jitter Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-21 13:16 ` Simon Horman
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