[SRU][J][PATCH v4 1/1] net_sched: sch_sfq: move the limit validation

Tim Whisonant tim.whisonant at canonical.com
Sat Jul 12 01:28:20 UTC 2025


From: Octavian Purdila <tavip at google.com>

It is not sufficient to directly validate the limit on the data that
the user passes as it can be updated based on how the other parameters
are changed.

Move the check at the end of the configuration update process to also
catch scenarios where the limit is indirectly updated, for example
with the following configurations:

tc qdisc add dev dummy0 handle 1: root sfq limit 2 flows 1 depth 1
tc qdisc add dev dummy0 handle 1: root sfq limit 2 flows 1 divisor 1

This fixes the following syzkaller reported crash:

------------[ cut here ]------------
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/sched/sch_sfq.c:203:6
index 65535 is out of range for type 'struct sfq_head[128]'
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3037 Comm: syz.2.16 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 12/27/2024
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x201/0x300 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:231 [inline]
 __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xf5/0x120 lib/ubsan.c:429
 sfq_link net/sched/sch_sfq.c:203 [inline]
 sfq_dec+0x53c/0x610 net/sched/sch_sfq.c:231
 sfq_dequeue+0x34e/0x8c0 net/sched/sch_sfq.c:493
 sfq_reset+0x17/0x60 net/sched/sch_sfq.c:518
 qdisc_reset+0x12e/0x600 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1035
 tbf_reset+0x41/0x110 net/sched/sch_tbf.c:339
 qdisc_reset+0x12e/0x600 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1035
 dev_reset_queue+0x100/0x1b0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1311
 netdev_for_each_tx_queue include/linux/netdevice.h:2590 [inline]
 dev_deactivate_many+0x7e5/0xe70 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1375

Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller at googlegroups.com>
Fixes: 10685681bafc ("net_sched: sch_sfq: don't allow 1 packet limit")
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <tavip at google.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(backported from commit b3bf8f63e6179076b57c9de660c9f80b5abefe70)
[tswhison: Removed NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD() macro call because
extack was not added until the following commit:
e4650d7ae425 ("net_sched: sch_sfq: handle bigger packets")
Used q->limit in if check, because
8c0cea59d40c ("net_sched: sch_sfq: use a temporary work
area for validating configuration")
is missing.]
CVE-2025-37752
Signed-off-by: Tim Whisonant <tim.whisonant at canonical.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_sfq.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_sfq.c b/net/sched/sch_sfq.c
index d7f910610de97..ec9cd4e9cd740 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_sfq.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_sfq.c
@@ -685,6 +685,11 @@ static int sfq_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt)
 		q->limit = min_t(u32, ctl->limit, q->maxdepth * q->maxflows);
 		q->maxflows = min_t(u32, q->maxflows, q->limit);
 	}
+	if (q->limit == 1) {
+		sch_tree_unlock(sch);
+		kfree(p);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	qlen = sch->q.qlen;
 	while (sch->q.qlen > q->limit) {
-- 
2.43.0




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