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clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry
authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:55:31 +0000 (07:55 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:08:54 +0000 (11:08 +0100)
commit37bef86e5428d59f70a4da82b80f9a8f252fecbe
tree7cd2dda143458d78dabdfa8ecb18dd93b475d328
parentaf0d1613d6751489dbf9f69aac1123f0b1e566e5
clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry

[ Upstream commit a0671125d4f55e1e98d9bde8a0b671941987e208 ]

Fix a use-after-free in the clsact qdisc upon init/destroy rollback asymmetry.
The latter is achieved by first fully initializing a clsact instance, and
then in a second step having a replacement failure for the new clsact qdisc
instance. clsact_init() initializes ingress first and then takes care of the
egress part. This can fail midway, for example, via tcf_block_get_ext(). Upon
failure, the kernel will trigger the clsact_destroy() callback.

Commit 1cb6f0bae504 ("bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry") details the
way how the transition is happening. If tcf_block_get_ext on the q->ingress_block
ends up failing, we took the tcx_miniq_inc reference count on the ingress
side, but not yet on the egress side. clsact_destroy() tests whether the
{ingress,egress}_entry was non-NULL. However, even in midway failure on the
replacement, both are in fact non-NULL with a valid egress_entry from the
previous clsact instance.

What we really need to test for is whether the qdisc instance-specific ingress
or egress side previously got initialized. This adds a small helper for checking
the miniq initialization called mini_qdisc_pair_inited, and utilizes that upon
clsact_destroy() in order to fix the use-after-free scenario. Convert the
ingress_destroy() side as well so both are consistent to each other.

Fixes: 1cb6f0bae504 ("bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry")
Reported-by: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260313065531.98639-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/net/sch_generic.h
net/sched/sch_ingress.c