From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:37:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27880b0b0d35ad1c98863d09788254e36f874968;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref tcf_ife_encode() must make sure ife_encode() does not return NULL. syzbot reported: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:ife_tlv_meta_encode+0x41/0xa0 net/ife/ife.c:166 CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 8990 Comm: syz.0.696 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Call Trace: ife_encode_meta_u32+0x153/0x180 net/sched/act_ife.c:101 tcf_ife_encode net/sched/act_ife.c:841 [inline] tcf_ife_act+0x1022/0x1de0 net/sched/act_ife.c:877 tc_act include/net/tc_wrapper.h:130 [inline] tcf_action_exec+0x1c0/0xa20 net/sched/act_api.c:1152 tcf_exts_exec include/net/pkt_cls.h:349 [inline] mall_classify+0x1a0/0x2a0 net/sched/cls_matchall.c:42 tc_classify include/net/tc_wrapper.h:197 [inline] __tcf_classify net/sched/cls_api.c:1764 [inline] tcf_classify+0x7f2/0x1380 net/sched/cls_api.c:1860 multiq_classify net/sched/sch_multiq.c:39 [inline] multiq_enqueue+0xe0/0x510 net/sched/sch_multiq.c:66 dev_qdisc_enqueue+0x45/0x250 net/core/dev.c:4147 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4262 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x2998/0x46c0 net/core/dev.c:4798 Fixes: 295a6e06d21e ("net/sched: act_ife: Change to use ife module") Reported-by: syzbot+5cf914f193dffde3bd3c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6970d61d.050a0220.706b.0010.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Yotam Gigi Reviewed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121133724.3400020-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/net/sched/act_ife.c b/net/sched/act_ife.c index 1dfdda6c2d4c..8e8f6af731d5 100644 --- a/net/sched/act_ife.c +++ b/net/sched/act_ife.c @@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ static int tcf_ife_encode(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tc_action *a, /* could be stupid policy setup or mtu config * so lets be conservative.. */ if ((action == TC_ACT_SHOT) || exceed_mtu) { +drop: qstats_drop_inc(this_cpu_ptr(ife->common.cpu_qstats)); return TC_ACT_SHOT; } @@ -829,6 +830,8 @@ static int tcf_ife_encode(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tc_action *a, skb_push(skb, skb->dev->hard_header_len); ife_meta = ife_encode(skb, metalen); + if (!ife_meta) + goto drop; spin_lock(&ife->tcf_lock); @@ -844,8 +847,7 @@ static int tcf_ife_encode(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tc_action *a, if (err < 0) { /* too corrupt to keep around if overwritten */ spin_unlock(&ife->tcf_lock); - qstats_drop_inc(this_cpu_ptr(ife->common.cpu_qstats)); - return TC_ACT_SHOT; + goto drop; } skboff += err; }