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* [PATCH net 1/1] net/sched: cls_api: Handle TC_ACT_CONSUMED in tcf_qevent_handle
@ 2026-06-20 13:07 Jamal Hadi Salim
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From: Jamal Hadi Salim @ 2026-06-20 13:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
  Cc: davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, horms, jiri, victor,
	zdi-disclosures, security, Jamal Hadi Salim, Zero Day Initiative

tcf_classify() can return TC_ACT_CONSUMED while the skb is held by the
defragmentation engine (e.g. act_ct on out-of-order fragments). When
that happens the skb is no longer owned by the caller and must not be
touched again.

tcf_qevent_handle() did not handle TC_ACT_CONSUMED: it fell through the
switch and returned the skb to the caller as if classification had
passed. The only qdisc that wires up qevents today is RED, via three call sites
(qe_mark on RED_PROB_MARK/HARD_MARK, qe_early_drop on congestion_drop)
red_enqueue() was continuing to operate on an skb it no longer owns  in this
case -- enqueueing it, dropping it, or updating statistics. Resulting in a UAF.

  tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: red ... qevent early_drop block 10
  tc filter add block 10 ... action ct

  (with ct defrag enabled and traffic that produces out-of-order
  fragments, e.g. a fragmented UDP stream)

Handle TC_ACT_CONSUMED in tcf_qevent_handle() the same way the ingress
and egress fast paths do: treat it as stolen and return NULL without
touching the skb. Unlike the TC_ACT_STOLEN case, the skb must not be
dropped/freed here, as it is no longer owned by us.

Fixes: 3f14b377d01d ("net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags")
Reported-by: Zero Day Initiative <zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com>
Tested-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
---
 net/sched/cls_api.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index 20f7f9ee0b353..3e67600a4a1a1 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -4049,6 +4049,9 @@ struct sk_buff *tcf_qevent_handle(struct tcf_qevent *qe, struct Qdisc *sch, stru
 		skb_do_redirect(skb);
 		*ret = __NET_XMIT_STOLEN;
 		return NULL;
+	case TC_ACT_CONSUMED:
+		*ret = __NET_XMIT_STOLEN;
+		return NULL;
 	}
 
 	return skb;
-- 
2.34.1


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