From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y] net/sched: serialize qdisc_rtab_list against concurrent get/put
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2026 10:09:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260808140951.340551-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026072926-crane-private-917f@gregkh>
From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit f43ee0c0730d6191629b5ee1ceae27b1ebfdc047 ]
qdisc_get_rtab() and qdisc_put_rtab() mutate the process-global singly
linked list qdisc_rtab_list and a plain non-atomic 'int refcnt' with no
lock. This was only safe because every caller historically held the RTNL
mutex, which serialized all rate-table lookups, inserts and frees.
That invariant no longer holds. cls_flower sets
TCF_PROTO_OPS_DOIT_UNLOCKED, so tc_new_tfilter() keeps rtnl_held == false
for it and sets TCA_ACT_FLAGS_NO_RTNL. That flag propagates through
tcf_exts_validate_ex() -> tcf_action_init() -> tcf_action_init_1() ->
tcf_police_init(), which calls qdisc_get_rtab()/qdisc_put_rtab() with the
RTNL mutex NOT held. Two RTM_NEWTFILTER requests on different CPUs, each
adding a flower filter with a police action carrying the same rate, then
race on qdisc_rtab_list and on the non-atomic refcnt, leading to a
use-after-free / double-free of the kmalloc-2k struct qdisc_rate_table.
qdisc_rtab_list is a single global (not per-netns), so the corrupted
object is shared system-wide.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in qdisc_put_rtab+0x12f/0x160
qdisc_put_rtab+0x12f/0x160
tcf_police_init+0xda9/0x1590
tcf_action_init_1+0x460/0x6b0
tcf_action_init+0x439/0xa40
tcf_exts_validate_ex+0x42d/0x550
fl_change+0xddd/0x7da0
tc_new_tfilter+0xaa7/0x2420
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
Protect qdisc_rtab_list and the refcount with a dedicated spinlock. The
(sleeping, GFP_KERNEL) allocation in qdisc_get_rtab() is performed before
taking the lock; if a concurrent inserter added an identical table in the
meantime the freshly allocated one is freed under the lock, so no
duplicate is leaked. qdisc_put_rtab() now decrements the refcount and
unlinks under the same lock.
Fixes: 470502de5bdb ("net: sched: unlock rules update API")
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260715114114.446841-1-qwe.aldo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/sched/sch_api.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
index b20dc987b907f..227e970603d47 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
@@ -413,12 +413,13 @@ static __u8 __detect_linklayer(struct tc_ratespec *r, __u32 *rtab)
}
static struct qdisc_rate_table *qdisc_rtab_list;
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(qdisc_rtab_lock);
struct qdisc_rate_table *qdisc_get_rtab(struct tc_ratespec *r,
struct nlattr *tab,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
- struct qdisc_rate_table *rtab;
+ struct qdisc_rate_table *rtab, *new_rtab;
if (tab == NULL || r->rate == 0 ||
r->cell_log == 0 || r->cell_log >= 32 ||
@@ -427,15 +428,20 @@ struct qdisc_rate_table *qdisc_get_rtab(struct tc_ratespec *r,
return NULL;
}
+ new_rtab = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_rtab), GFP_KERNEL);
+
+ spin_lock(&qdisc_rtab_lock);
for (rtab = qdisc_rtab_list; rtab; rtab = rtab->next) {
if (!memcmp(&rtab->rate, r, sizeof(struct tc_ratespec)) &&
!memcmp(&rtab->data, nla_data(tab), 1024)) {
rtab->refcnt++;
+ spin_unlock(&qdisc_rtab_lock);
+ kfree(new_rtab);
return rtab;
}
}
- rtab = kmalloc(sizeof(*rtab), GFP_KERNEL);
+ rtab = new_rtab;
if (rtab) {
rtab->rate = *r;
rtab->refcnt = 1;
@@ -447,6 +453,7 @@ struct qdisc_rate_table *qdisc_get_rtab(struct tc_ratespec *r,
} else {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Failed to allocate new qdisc rate table");
}
+ spin_unlock(&qdisc_rtab_lock);
return rtab;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(qdisc_get_rtab);
@@ -455,18 +462,25 @@ void qdisc_put_rtab(struct qdisc_rate_table *tab)
{
struct qdisc_rate_table *rtab, **rtabp;
- if (!tab || --tab->refcnt)
+ if (!tab)
return;
+ spin_lock(&qdisc_rtab_lock);
+ if (--tab->refcnt) {
+ spin_unlock(&qdisc_rtab_lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
for (rtabp = &qdisc_rtab_list;
(rtab = *rtabp) != NULL;
rtabp = &rtab->next) {
if (rtab == tab) {
*rtabp = rtab->next;
- kfree(rtab);
- return;
+ break;
}
}
+ spin_unlock(&qdisc_rtab_lock);
+ kfree(tab);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(qdisc_put_rtab);
--
2.53.0
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2026-07-29 13:52 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net/sched: serialize qdisc_rtab_list against concurrent" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree gregkh
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