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>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, vega@nebusec.ai,
"Victor Nogueira" <victor@mojatatu.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/2] net/sched: pfifo_fast: cap ring size and account to memcg
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:57:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820095742.68511-1-jhs@mojatatu.com> (raw)
pfifo_fast_init() and pfifo_fast_change_tx_queue_len() allocate skb
ring arrays sized by dev->tx_queue_len with GFP_KERNEL and no upper
bound. An unprivileged user (via unshare -Urn) can set a huge
tx_queue_len and attach many pfifo_fast qdiscs to exhaust global
memory, causing a system-wide OOM.
Cap the ring size to 65535 (default tx_queue_len is 1000) and use
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so the allocations are charged to the allocating
process's memory cgroup. A pr_warn_ratelimited is emitted when the
ring size is capped so the user is not silently clamped.
Conditions to recreate the bug:
- CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y, CONFIG_VETH=y, CONFIG_USER_NS=y, CONFIG_NET_NS=y.
- Unprivileged user in a fresh user+net namespace (unshare -Urn).
- Create a veth pair, set tx_queue_len to a huge value (e.g. 500000)
while the devices are down.
- Attach mq at root, then replace each child queue with pfifo_fast:
tc qdisc replace dev veth0 root handle 1: mq
tc qdisc replace dev veth0 parent 1:1 pfifo_fast
tc qdisc replace dev veth0 parent 1:2 pfifo_fast ...
- Repeat across many veth pairs. Each pfifo_fast allocates 3 skb_array
rings of tx_queue_len entries (~12MB per qdisc at QLEN=500000).
- On the unfixed kernel this exhausts global memory in ~28 iterations
on a 2GB guest -> OOM panic. On the fixed kernel the ring is capped
to 65535 entries (~1.5MB per qdisc) and charged to the memcg.
Fixes: c5ad119fb6c0 ("net: sched: pfifo_fast use skb_array")
Reported-by: vega@nebusec.ai
Tested-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
---
net/sched/sch_generic.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index ef2b4bf51564..e98fd236afa0 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -910,11 +910,17 @@ static int pfifo_fast_init(struct Qdisc *qdisc, struct nlattr *opt,
if (!qlen)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (qlen > 65535) {
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("pfifo_fast: capping ring size %u to 65535 for dev %s\n",
+ qlen, qdisc_dev(qdisc)->name);
+ qlen = 65535;
+ }
+
for (prio = 0; prio < PFIFO_FAST_BANDS; prio++) {
struct skb_array *q = band2list(priv, prio);
int err;
- err = skb_array_init(q, qlen, GFP_KERNEL);
+ err = skb_array_init(q, qlen, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (err)
return -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -957,8 +963,14 @@ static int pfifo_fast_change_tx_queue_len(struct Qdisc *sch,
bands[prio] = q;
}
+ if (new_len > 65535) {
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("pfifo_fast: capping ring size %u to 65535 for dev %s\n",
+ new_len, qdisc_dev(sch)->name);
+ new_len = 65535;
+ }
+
return skb_array_resize_multiple_bh(bands, PFIFO_FAST_BANDS, new_len,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
}
struct Qdisc_ops pfifo_fast_ops __read_mostly = {
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-20 9:57 UTC|newest]
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2026-08-20 9:57 Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2026-08-20 9:57 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: tc-testing: add pfifo_fast ring cap regression test Jamal Hadi Salim
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