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net/sched: act_ife: Fix metalist update behavior
authorJamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Wed, 4 Mar 2026 14:06:02 +0000 (09:06 -0500)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thu, 5 Mar 2026 15:54:08 +0000 (07:54 -0800)
commite2cedd400c3ec0302ffca2490e8751772906ac23
tree51a208c2cad6d61e0402ec608c3dd4d1a5d7b0c3
parent4517b74cc07c3b766ca92cf6cea352e65f6e8f9b
net/sched: act_ife: Fix metalist update behavior

Whenever an ife action replace changes the metalist, instead of
replacing the old data on the metalist, the current ife code is appending
the new metadata. Aside from being innapropriate behavior, this may lead
to an unbounded addition of metadata to the metalist which might cause an
out of bounds error when running the encode op:

[  138.423369][    C1] ==================================================================
[  138.424317][    C1] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)
[  138.424906][    C1] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880077f4ffe by task ife_out_out_bou/255
[  138.425778][    C1] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 255 Comm: ife_out_out_bou Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1-00169-gfbdfa8da05b6 #624 PREEMPT(full)
[  138.425795][    C1] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[  138.425800][    C1] Call Trace:
[  138.425804][    C1]  <IRQ>
[  138.425808][    C1]  dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
[  138.425828][    C1]  print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
[  138.425839][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[  138.425844][    C1]  ? __virt_addr_valid (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:95 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:975 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/mmzone.h:2207 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:54 (discriminator 1))
[  138.425853][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)
[  138.425859][    C1]  kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:221 mm/kasan/report.c:597)
[  138.425868][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)
[  138.425878][    C1]  kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:186 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/generic.c:200 (discriminator 1))
[  138.425884][    C1]  __asan_memset (mm/kasan/shadow.c:84 (discriminator 2))
[  138.425889][    C1]  ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)
[  138.425893][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:171)
[  138.425898][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[  138.425903][    C1]  ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:57)
[  138.425910][    C1]  ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:114)
[  138.425916][    C1]  ? __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105 (discriminator 3))
[  138.425921][    C1]  ? __pfx_ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:45)
[  138.425927][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[  138.425931][    C1]  tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:847 net/sched/act_ife.c:879)

To solve this issue, fix the replace behavior by adding the metalist to
the ife rcu data structure.

Fixes: aa9fd9a325d51 ("sched: act: ife: update parameters via rcu handling")
Reported-by: Ruitong Liu <cnitlrt@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ruitong Liu <cnitlrt@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304140603.76500-1-jhs@mojatatu.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
include/net/tc_act/tc_ife.h
net/sched/act_ife.c