* [PATCH net 1/2] net/sched: bound TCA_STAB overhead to prevent qdisc soft lockup
@ 2026-08-18 10:17 Jamal Hadi Salim
2026-08-18 10:17 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: tc-testing: add TCA_STAB overhead rejection tests for DRR and ETS Jamal Hadi Salim
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From: Jamal Hadi Salim @ 2026-08-18 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim, stable, vega, Victor Nogueira, Jiri Pirko,
David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
Simon Horman
qdisc_get_stab() copies the TCA_STAB_BASE overhead from userspace
without bounding it. A huge overhead (e.g. 2147483000) combined with
a small DRR class quantum (1) makes qdisc_calculate_pkt_len() set a
~2 GiB accounting length, so drr_dequeue() spins ~2 billion times
adding quantum=1 to the deficit under the qdisc spinlock with BH
disabled, producing a soft lockup / RCU stall.
The same unbounded stab overhead also lets qdisc_pkt_len() overflow
the per-flow counters of other qdiscs (fq_codel, hhf, sfq), which
were recently clamped per-qdisc; bounding the overhead at the source
closes the root cause for all of them.
Reject overhead > 65535 (matching QFQ_MAX_LMAX and the max single
skb length) in qdisc_get_stab(); legitimate L1 overheads are a few
dozen bytes at most.
vega@nebusec.ai provided PoCs for both DRR and ETS demonstrating the
soft lockup.
Conditions to recreate the bug:
- require CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR=y
- Create a veth pair (or use lo) and attach a root qdisc with a
TCA_STAB overhead near INT_MAX, e.g.:
tc qdisc add dev veth0 root handle 1: \
stab mtu 2048 tsize 0 overhead 2147483000 drr
(or ... ets bands 1 strict 0 quanta 1 priomap 0 0 ... for ETS).
- Add a class with a tiny quantum of 1:
tc class add dev veth0 parent 1: classid 1:1 drr quantum 1
- Send one small packet (e.g. `ping` or a single UDP datagram) on the
device; the ~2 GiB accounting length makes the deficit loop spin
billions of times under the qdisc lock, tripping the softlockup
detector (panic with kernel.softlockup_panic=1).
- Reachable as root, or from an unprivileged user in a fresh user+net
namespace (`unshare -Urn`) with namespace-local CAP_NET_ADMIN
(Level 2).
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: vega@nebusec.ai
Tested-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
---
include/net/pkt_sched.h | 1 +
net/sched/sch_api.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/pkt_sched.h b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
index 18a419cd9d94..a4c1b7b0263d 100644
--- a/include/net/pkt_sched.h
+++ b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#define DEFAULT_TX_QUEUE_LEN 1000
#define STAB_SIZE_LOG_MAX 30
+#define STAB_OVERHEAD_MAX 65535
struct qdisc_walker {
int stop;
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
index 65b35528d125..cdcf861c85f5 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
@@ -544,6 +544,11 @@ static struct qdisc_size_table *qdisc_get_stab(struct nlattr *opt,
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}
+ if (abs(s->overhead) > STAB_OVERHEAD_MAX) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Invalid size table overhead");
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ }
+
stab = kmalloc_flex(*stab, data, tsize);
if (!stab)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: tc-testing: add TCA_STAB overhead rejection tests for DRR and ETS
2026-08-18 10:17 [PATCH net 1/2] net/sched: bound TCA_STAB overhead to prevent qdisc soft lockup Jamal Hadi Salim
@ 2026-08-18 10:17 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jamal Hadi Salim @ 2026-08-18 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim, stable, vega, Victor Nogueira, Jiri Pirko,
David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
Simon Horman
Add tdc test cases that verify a qdisc with an oversized TCA_STAB
overhead (2147483000) is rejected. Without the fix, the qdisc is
accepted and a single packet drives the deficit loop into a soft
lockup; with the fix, the add fails with -EINVAL.
Reported-by: vega@nebusec.ai
Tested-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
---
.../tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/drr.json | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
.../tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/ets.json | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/drr.json b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/drr.json
index 2b61d8d79bde..7713eb35aaeb 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/drr.json
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/drr.json
@@ -86,5 +86,25 @@
"teardown": [
"$TC qdisc del dev $DUMMY root"
]
+ },
+ {
+ "id": "d1e2",
+ "name": "Reject DRR qdisc with oversized TCA_STAB overhead",
+ "category": [
+ "qdisc",
+ "drr"
+ ],
+ "plugins": {
+ "requires": "nsPlugin"
+ },
+ "setup": [
+ ],
+ "cmdUnderTest": "$TC qdisc add dev $DUMMY handle 1: root stab overhead 2147483000 drr",
+ "expExitCode": "2",
+ "verifyCmd": "$TC qdisc show dev $DUMMY",
+ "matchPattern": "qdisc drr",
+ "matchCount": "0",
+ "teardown": [
+ ]
}
]
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/ets.json b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/ets.json
index ee09e6d6fdf3..da7ae626f7e1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/ets.json
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/ets.json
@@ -1007,5 +1007,25 @@
"teardown": [
"echo \"1\" > /sys/bus/netdevsim/del_device"
]
+ },
+ {
+ "id": "f3a4",
+ "name": "Reject ETS qdisc with oversized TCA_STAB overhead",
+ "category": [
+ "qdisc",
+ "ets"
+ ],
+ "plugins": {
+ "requires": "nsPlugin"
+ },
+ "setup": [
+ ],
+ "cmdUnderTest": "$TC qdisc add dev $DUMMY handle 1: root stab overhead 2147483000 ets bands 1 strict 0 quanta 1",
+ "expExitCode": "2",
+ "verifyCmd": "$TC qdisc show dev $DUMMY",
+ "matchPattern": "qdisc ets",
+ "matchCount": "0",
+ "teardown": [
+ ]
}
]
--
2.43.0
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