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net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:15:11 +0000 (11:15 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:05:20 +0000 (11:05 +0100)
commit20f68e6a9e41693cb0e55e5b9ebbcb40983a4b8f
tree260e11fb827b20e7ddb1241b5ba5fa2c850046cb
parentdc84c55f121db405b902ebb29a7d474bbaf21327
net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()

[ Upstream commit d35acc1be3480505b5931f17e4ea9b7617fea4d3 ]

Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in PRIO, whenever SFQ perturb timer
fires at the wrong time.

The race is as follows:

CPU 0                                 CPU 1
[1]: lock root
[2]: qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
[3]: unlock root
 |
 |                                    [5]: lock root
 |                                    [6]: rehash
 |                                    [7]: qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
 |
[4]: qdisc_put()

This can be abused to underflow a parent's qlen.

Calling qdisc_purge_queue() instead of qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
should fix the race, because all packets will be purged from the qdisc
before releasing the lock.

Fixes: 7b8e0b6e6599 ("net: sched: prio: delay destroying child qdiscs on change")
Reported-by: Gerrard Tai <gerrard.tai@starlabs.sg>
Suggested-by: Gerrard Tai <gerrard.tai@starlabs.sg>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250611111515.1983366-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/sched/sch_prio.c