From: Dudu Lu <phx0fer@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net: xps: bound the cleanup loop by the old map's num_tc
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:55:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021155538.67867-1-phx0fer@gmail.com> (raw)
__netif_set_xps_queue() walks the OLD dev_maps to free its entries. The
per-row trip count uses the NEW num_tc while the row stride uses the OLD
dev_maps->num_tc, so when dev->num_tc was raised without rebuilding the
XPS map the last row indexes attr_map[] past the allocation:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __netif_set_xps_queue+0x1458/0x1ee8
Read of size 8 at addr ffff000014f69458 by task insmod/112
The loop frees entries in dev_maps, so both the trip count and the stride
must come from dev_maps->num_tc. The map is sized
XPS_CPU_DEV_MAPS_SIZE(old num_tc)/XPS_RXQ_DEV_MAPS_SIZE(old num_tc, ...),
so iterating the new (larger) num_tc reads past the end.
Fixes: 255c04a87f43 ("net: embed num_tc in the xps maps")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Dudu Lu <phx0fer@gmail.com>
---
Tested base
-----------
Detected on Linux 7.3-rc4 (commit 93f51579e7df), arm64 QEMU guest.
Re-checked against mainline f47d223627f8 (v7.3-341): the affected code
is unchanged between the two, so the bug is still present there.
Checked against linux-next next-20261021 (commit 9a482184d910): the
affected code is unchanged there as well, so the bug is still present in
linux-next too.
Reproducer status
-----------------
A reproducer was written and executed on an arm64 QEMU guest (KASAN); it
fires at the claimed sink, and still fires on a kernel built with 4da3b7b8b50f
applied. The guest has no ndo_setup_tc NIC, so the reproducer stands in for
that hardware with a small module that raises dev->num_tc the same way an
in-tree driver does. The reproducer source is not posted here per
Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst; it is available on request.
Triggering conditions
---------------------
CAP_NET_ADMIN to set the XPS mask. dev->num_tc is raised in-tree by the
drivers that implement ndo_setup_tc (the Intel i40e/ice/ixgbe/iavf, mlx5
and mvneta families, among others) and by the mqprio/taprio qdiscs. The
QEMU guest used for the reproducer has no such NIC, so the num_tc change
was driven through a small module; the defect itself is reached in-tree
on that hardware.
Notes
-----
Built and checkpatch-clean: this patch was applied on top of 7.3-rc4
(commit 93f51579e7df) and a full arm64 kernel (defconfig) was built with
it -- no new warnings or errors. scripts/checkpatch.pl reports 0 errors,
0 warnings.
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index e76762e29360..3023f0ca4713 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3003,7 +3003,7 @@ int __netif_set_xps_queue(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned long *mask,
goto out_no_old_maps;
for (j = 0; j < dev_maps->nr_ids; j++) {
- for (i = num_tc, tci = j * dev_maps->num_tc; i--; tci++) {
+ for (i = dev_maps->num_tc, tci = j * dev_maps->num_tc; i--; tci++) {
map = xmap_dereference(dev_maps->attr_map[tci]);
if (!map)
continue;
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 15:55 Dudu Lu [this message]
2026-10-23 10:07 ` [PATCH net] net: xps: bound the cleanup loop by the old map's num_tc Antoine Tenart
2026-10-25 17:32 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-27 11:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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