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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, vega@nebusec.ai,
	"Victor Nogueira" <victor@mojatatu.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/2] net/sched: cls_u32: fix duplicate handle when node id pool exhausted
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:52:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820095236.68390-1-jhs@mojatatu.com> (raw)

gen_new_kid() tries two idr_alloc_u32() allocations for auto-generated
knode handles. If both fail (all node IDs in 0x001..0xFFF are already
reserved), it silently returns max (htid | 0xFFF) instead of an error.
u32_change() trusts that value and inserts a new knode with an
already-live handle, breaking handle uniqueness and allowing the table
to grow past the intended 4095-knode cap.

Conditions to recreate the bug:
- CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y, CONFIG_NET_CLS_U32=y, CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT=y.
- Create a clsact/ingress qdisc on a device (e.g. lo).
- Add 4095 u32 filters with auto-generated handles to fill the
  entire node ID space (0x001..0xFFF) for the root hash table:
    yes 'filter add dev lo ingress protocol ip u32 match u8 0 0' \
      | head -n 4095 | tc -batch -
- Add a 4096th filter with an auto-generated handle. On the unfixed
  kernel this succeeds (silently reuses handle 800::fff, creating a
  duplicate). On the fixed kernel it fails with ENOSPC.
- Reachable from an unprivileged user in a fresh user+net namespace
  (unshare -Urn) with namespace-local CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Fixes: e7614370d6f04 ("net_sched: use idr to allocate u32 filter handles")
Reported-by: vega@nebusec.ai
Tested-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
---
 net/sched/cls_u32.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_u32.c b/net/sched/cls_u32.c
index c297d7dbcf91..13ffad47cad4 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_u32.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_u32.c
@@ -695,16 +695,19 @@ static int u32_delete(struct tcf_proto *tp, void *arg, bool *last,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static u32 gen_new_kid(struct tc_u_hnode *ht, u32 htid)
+static u32 gen_new_kid(struct tc_u_hnode *ht, u32 htid, int *err)
 {
 	u32 index = htid | 0x800;
 	u32 max = htid | 0xFFF;
 
+	*err = 0;
+
 	if (idr_alloc_u32(&ht->handle_idr, NULL, &index, max, GFP_KERNEL)) {
 		index = htid + 1;
-		if (idr_alloc_u32(&ht->handle_idr, NULL, &index, max,
-				 GFP_KERNEL))
-			index = max;
+		*err = idr_alloc_u32(&ht->handle_idr, NULL, &index, max,
+				     GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (*err)
+			return 0;
 	}
 
 	return index;
@@ -1079,7 +1082,9 @@ static int u32_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *in_skb,
 		 * handle which is used to uniquely identify the match entry.
 		 */
 		if (!TC_U32_NODE(handle)) {
-			handle = gen_new_kid(ht, htid);
+			handle = gen_new_kid(ht, htid, &err);
+			if (err)
+				return err;
 		} else {
 			handle = htid | TC_U32_NODE(handle);
 			err = idr_alloc_u32(&ht->handle_idr, NULL, &handle,
@@ -1091,7 +1096,9 @@ static int u32_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *in_skb,
 		/* The user did not give us a handle; lets just generate one
 		 * from the table's pool of nodeids.
 		 */
-		handle = gen_new_kid(ht, htid);
+		handle = gen_new_kid(ht, htid, &err);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 	}
 
 	if (tb[TCA_U32_SEL] == NULL) {
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-20  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-20  9:52 Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2026-08-20  9:52 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: tc-testing: add u32 node ID pool exhaustion test Jamal Hadi Salim

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