APPLIED[P/N/J]: [SRU][J/N/O/P][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2025-38083
Stefan Bader
stefan.bader at canonical.com
Fri Jul 4 13:06:49 UTC 2025
On 26.06.25 01:00, Tim Whisonant wrote:
> SRU Justification:
>
> [Impact]
>
> net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()
>
> 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.
>
> [Fix]
>
> Plucky: applied Jammy patch
> Oracular: applied Jammy patch
> Noble: applied Jammy patch
> Jammy: cherry picked from upstream
> Focal: patch sent to ESM ML
> Bionic: not affected
> Xenial: not affected
> Trusty: not affected
>
> [Test Plan]
>
> Compile and boot tested.
>
> [Where problems could occur]
>
> The change affects the Simple 3-band priority (network) scheduler.
> Issues might manifset as packet drops or other unexpected behavior
> in the networking stack.
>
> Eric Dumazet (1):
> net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()
>
> net/sched/sch_prio.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
Applied to plucky,noble,jammy:linux/master-next. Thanks.
-Stefan
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