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From: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, jiri@resnulli.us
Cc: horms@kernel.org, bestswngs@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net/sched: sch_teql: restore skb->dev on the slave failure path
Date: Fri,  7 Aug 2026 10:31:55 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807133155.1242599-1-victor@mojatatu.com> (raw)

teql_master_xmit() sets skb->dev = slave before calling the slave's
ndo_start_xmit(), but never restores it when that transmit fails. The
skb then walks on to the next slave still pointing at the previous one.

If a later slave has no resolved neighbour, teql_resolve() hands the skb
to neigh_event_send(), which queues it on that neighbour's arp_queue
with the stale skb->dev. skb->dev holds no reference, so deleting the
previous slave frees the net_device while the skb is still queued.
Whatever runs next on that skb - arp_error_report() on timeout, or
neigh_direct_output() -> dev_queue_xmit() once the neighbour resolves -
causes a UAF like the one below:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __icmp_send (net/ipv4/icmp.c:914 (discriminator 2))
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888106e100b0 by task flood_packet/527
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 527 Comm: flood_packet Not tainted 7.2.0-rc6-g594d90519502 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:94 lib/dump_stack.c:120)
print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:378 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave (./include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h:122 (discriminator 4))
? __icmp_send (net/ipv4/icmp.c:914 (discriminator 2))
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
? __icmp_send (net/ipv4/icmp.c:914 (discriminator 2))
__icmp_send (net/ipv4/icmp.c:914 (discriminator 2))
[...]
ipv4_link_failure (net/ipv4/route.c:1251 net/ipv4/route.c:1258)
? __pfx_ipv4_link_failure (./include/linux/skbuff.h:4327)
? _raw_write_lock (./include/linux/instrumented.h:55 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1301 ./include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h:98 ./include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h:230 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:304)
? __pfx__raw_write_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:175)
arp_error_report (./include/net/dst.h:438 net/ipv4/arp.c:296)
neigh_invalidate (net/core/neighbour.c:1077)
neigh_timer_handler (net/core/neighbour.c:1169)
[...]
Allocated by task 505:
kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:57)
kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:78)
__kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:398 mm/kasan/common.c:415)
__kvmalloc_node_noprof (./include/linux/kasan.h:263 mm/slub.c:5334 mm/slub.c:6905)
alloc_netdev_mqs (net/core/dev.c:12055 (discriminator 2))
rtnl_create_link (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3721)
rtnl_newlink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3903 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159)
rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076)
[...]
Freed by task 536:
kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:57)
kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:78)
kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:584)
__kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:253 mm/kasan/common.c:285)
kfree (./include/linux/kasan.h:235 mm/slub.c:2677 mm/slub.c:6377 mm/slub.c:6692)
device_release (drivers/base/core.c:2636)
kobject_put (lib/kobject.c:689 lib/kobject.c:720 ./include/linux/kref.h:65 lib/kobject.c:737)
netdev_run_todo (net/core/dev.c:11756)
rtnl_dellink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:157 ./include/linux/rtnetlink.h:135 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3651)
rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076)
[...]

Fix this by restoring skb->dev to the master at the end of each slave's
iteration.

Fixes: 0cc0c2e661af ("net/sched: teql: fix NULL pointer dereference in iptunnel_xmit on TEQL slave xmit")
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_teql.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_teql.c b/net/sched/sch_teql.c
index 5c42a29a981c..9e52afc2d980 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_teql.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_teql.c
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t teql_master_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 			nores = 1;
 			break;
 		}
+		skb->dev = dev;
 		__skb_pull(skb, skb_network_offset(skb));
 	} while ((q = rcu_dereference(NEXT_SLAVE(q))) != start);
 
-- 
2.55.0


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