From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>,
GangMin Kim <km.kim1503@gmail.com>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y 2/2] net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:18:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312171857.1797148-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312171857.1797148-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
[ Upstream commit 11cb63b0d1a0685e0831ae3c77223e002ef18189 ]
As Paolo said earlier [1]:
"Since the blamed commit below, classify can return TC_ACT_CONSUMED while
the current skb being held by the defragmentation engine. As reported by
GangMin Kim, if such packet is that may cause a UaF when the defrag engine
later on tries to tuch again such packet."
act_ct was never meant to be used in the egress path, however some users
are attaching it to egress today [2]. Attempting to reach a middle
ground, we noticed that, while most qdiscs are not handling
TC_ACT_CONSUMED, clsact/ingress qdiscs are. With that in mind, we
address the issue by only allowing act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress
qdiscs and shared blocks. That way it's still possible to attach act_ct to
egress (albeit only with clsact).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/674b8cbfc385c6f37fb29a1de08d8fe5c2b0fbee.1771321118.git.pabeni@redhat.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cc6bfb4a-4a2b-42d8-b9ce-7ef6644fb22b@ovn.org/
Reported-by: GangMin Kim <km.kim1503@gmail.com>
Fixes: 3f14b377d01d ("net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225134349.1287037-1-victor@mojatatu.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
include/net/act_api.h | 1 +
net/sched/act_ct.c | 6 ++++++
net/sched/cls_api.c | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/act_api.h b/include/net/act_api.h
index c94ea1a306e0d..8d4fff1f82de3 100644
--- a/include/net/act_api.h
+++ b/include/net/act_api.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct tc_action {
#define TCA_ACT_FLAGS_REPLACE (1U << (TCA_ACT_FLAGS_USER_BITS + 2))
#define TCA_ACT_FLAGS_NO_RTNL (1U << (TCA_ACT_FLAGS_USER_BITS + 3))
#define TCA_ACT_FLAGS_AT_INGRESS (1U << (TCA_ACT_FLAGS_USER_BITS + 4))
+#define TCA_ACT_FLAGS_AT_INGRESS_OR_CLSACT (1U << (TCA_ACT_FLAGS_USER_BITS + 5))
/* Update lastuse only if needed, to avoid dirtying a cache line.
* We use a temp variable to avoid fetching jiffies twice.
diff --git a/net/sched/act_ct.c b/net/sched/act_ct.c
index 9594dbc32165f..75a8fba9fa57a 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ct.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ct.c
@@ -1440,6 +1440,12 @@ static int tcf_ct_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (bind && !(flags & TCA_ACT_FLAGS_AT_INGRESS_OR_CLSACT)) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
+ "Attaching ct to a non ingress/clsact qdisc is unsupported");
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+
err = nla_parse_nested(tb, TCA_CT_MAX, nla, ct_policy, extack);
if (err < 0)
return err;
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index 5aef802d17c75..5071c41bc864b 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -1998,6 +1998,11 @@ static bool is_qdisc_ingress(__u32 classid)
return (TC_H_MIN(classid) == TC_H_MIN(TC_H_MIN_INGRESS));
}
+static bool is_ingress_or_clsact(struct tcf_block *block, struct Qdisc *q)
+{
+ return tcf_block_shared(block) || (q && !!(q->flags & TCQ_F_INGRESS));
+}
+
static int tc_new_tfilter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
@@ -2191,6 +2196,8 @@ static int tc_new_tfilter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n,
flags |= TCA_ACT_FLAGS_NO_RTNL;
if (is_qdisc_ingress(parent))
flags |= TCA_ACT_FLAGS_AT_INGRESS;
+ if (is_ingress_or_clsact(block, q))
+ flags |= TCA_ACT_FLAGS_AT_INGRESS_OR_CLSACT;
err = tp->ops->change(net, skb, tp, cl, t->tcm_handle, tca, &fh,
flags, extack);
if (err == 0) {
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 16:11 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree gregkh
2026-03-12 17:18 ` [PATCH 6.1.y 1/2] act_skbedit: skbedit queue mapping for receive queue Sasha Levin
2026-03-12 17:18 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-03-12 17:28 ` [PATCH 6.1.y 2/2] net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks Greg KH
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