From: Aohan Mei <ljp1205831794@gmail.com>
To: jhs@mojatatu.com, jiri@resnulli.us
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
corvus@tencent.com, henrymei@tencent.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net/sched: cls_api: fix tp_created race losing existing tcf_proto
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 17:29:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805093012.95155-1-henrymei@tencent.com> (raw)
tc_new_tfilter() attaches a filter to a chain. When no
tcf_proto (tp) exists for the given (protocol, prio), it creates one
with tcf_proto_create(), marks tp_created so the error path can clean
it up, and inserts it with tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique().
However, tcf_proto_create() can sleep, opening a race window in which a
concurrent thread may insert a tp with the same (protocol, prio). In
that case tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique() destroys tp_new and returns the
*existing* tp, but tp_created is never reset. If the request then fails
(e.g. kind mismatch), the errout path calls
tcf_chain_tp_delete_empty() on a tp this thread never created. For
classifiers without a delete_empty callback (all but cls_flower),
tcf_proto_check_delete() removes the tp unconditionally: a live tp and
all its filters are silently lost while the owner's change() still
reports success. The race is reachable because cls_flower on
ingress/clsact qdiscs runs without rtnl_lock and can interleave with
rtnl_lock-holding classifiers such as u32.
Fix this by making tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique() report through a new
"inserted" out-parameter whether tp_new was actually inserted, and
gate the errout delete_empty call on it instead of tp_created.
tp_created itself must stay set on this path: the chain reference was
consumed by the destroyed tp_new, and errout_tp relies on tp_created
to decide whether to tcf_chain_put(), so resetting it would underflow
the chain refcount.
Fixes: 8b64678e0af8 ("net: sched: refactor tp insert/delete for concurrent execution")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Aohan Mei <henrymei@tencent.com>
---
net/sched/cls_api.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index fee4524ad..9ceb2b538 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -1937,7 +1937,8 @@ static struct tcf_proto *tcf_chain_tp_find(struct tcf_chain *chain,
static struct tcf_proto *tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique(struct tcf_chain *chain,
struct tcf_proto *tp_new,
u32 protocol, u32 prio,
- bool rtnl_held)
+ bool rtnl_held,
+ bool *inserted)
{
struct tcf_chain_info chain_info;
struct tcf_proto *tp;
@@ -1948,6 +1949,7 @@ static struct tcf_proto *tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique(struct tcf_chain *chain,
if (tcf_proto_exists_destroying(chain, tp_new)) {
mutex_unlock(&chain->filter_chain_lock);
tcf_proto_destroy(tp_new, rtnl_held, false, NULL);
+ *inserted = false;
return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
}
@@ -1964,6 +1966,11 @@ static struct tcf_proto *tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique(struct tcf_chain *chain,
tp_new = ERR_PTR(err);
}
+ /* Tell the caller whether tp_new was actually inserted, or an
+ * already existing tp is being returned instead.
+ */
+ *inserted = !tp && !err;
+
return tp_new;
}
@@ -2254,11 +2261,13 @@ static int tc_new_tfilter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n,
void *fh;
int err;
int tp_created;
+ bool tp_inserted;
bool rtnl_held = false;
u32 flags;
replay:
tp_created = 0;
+ tp_inserted = false;
err = nlmsg_parse_deprecated(n, sizeof(*t), tca, TCA_MAX,
rtm_tca_policy, extack);
@@ -2382,7 +2391,7 @@ static int tc_new_tfilter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n,
tp_created = 1;
tp = tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique(chain, tp_new, protocol, prio,
- rtnl_held);
+ rtnl_held, &tp_inserted);
if (IS_ERR(tp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(tp);
goto errout_tp;
@@ -2440,7 +2449,13 @@ static int tc_new_tfilter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n,
}
errout:
- if (err && tp_created)
+ /* Only delete a tp that we actually inserted ourselves. When
+ * tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique() raced with a concurrent insertion
+ * it returns the existing tp; tp_created must stay set then (the
+ * chain reference was consumed by the destroyed tp_new), but the
+ * existing tp must not be deleted.
+ */
+ if (err && tp_inserted)
tcf_chain_tp_delete_empty(chain, tp, rtnl_held, NULL);
errout_tp:
if (chain) {
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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