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sched_ext: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in scx_alloc_and_add_sched()
authorCheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:49:27 +0000 (01:49 +0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:55:50 +0000 (07:55 -1000)
commit2008fb257323cdb0870d070f1c599bc3fed4be9b
tree90f1198cfea1c9835c4b9c6df1b969520c6c6f7f
parent618a9db0158b1c51fd33822cf804f5a09f829837
sched_ext: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in scx_alloc_and_add_sched()

ancestors[] is a flexible array member that needs level + 1 slots to
hold all ancestors including self (indices 0..level), but kzalloc_flex()
only allocates `level` slots:

  sch = kzalloc_flex(*sch, ancestors, level);
  ...
  sch->ancestors[level] = sch;  /* one past the end */

For the root scheduler (level = 0), zero slots are allocated and
ancestors[0] is written immediately past the end of the object.

KASAN reports:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in scx_alloc_and_add_sched+0x1c17/0x1d10
  Write of size 8 at addr ffff888066b56538 by task scx_enable_help/667

  The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
   allocated 1336-byte region [ffff888066b56000ffff888066b56538)

Fix by passing level + 1 to kzalloc_flex().

Tested with vng + scx_lavd, KASAN no longer triggers.

Fixes: ebeca1f930ea ("sched_ext: Introduce cgroup sub-sched support")
Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/ext.c