[SRU][J][PATCH v2 3/7] sch_drr: make drr_qlen_notify() idempotent

Ian Whitfield ian.whitfield at canonical.com
Tue May 27 21:47:32 UTC 2025


From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com>

drr_qlen_notify() always deletes the DRR class from its active list
with list_del(), therefore, it is not idempotent and not friendly
to its callers, like fq_codel_dequeue().

Let's make it idempotent to ease qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() callers'
life. Also change other list_del()'s to list_del_init() just to be
extra safe.

Reported-by: Gerrard Tai <gerrard.tai at starlabs.sg>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250403211033.166059-3-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs at mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
(backported from commit df008598b3a00be02a8051fde89ca0fbc416bd55)
[ijwhitfield: Adjusted context due to missing commit:
67c9e6270f30 ("net: sched: Protect Qdisc::bstats with u64_stats")]
CVE-2025-37798
Signed-off-by: Ian Whitfield <ian.whitfield at canonical.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_drr.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_drr.c b/net/sched/sch_drr.c
index 80a88e208d2b..986169daa8a9 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_drr.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_drr.c
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ static int drr_change_class(struct Qdisc *sch, u32 classid, u32 parentid,
 	if (cl == NULL)
 		return -ENOBUFS;
 
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cl->alist);
 	cl->common.classid = classid;
 	cl->quantum	   = quantum;
 	cl->qdisc	   = qdisc_create_dflt(sch->dev_queue,
@@ -230,7 +231,7 @@ static void drr_qlen_notify(struct Qdisc *csh, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	struct drr_class *cl = (struct drr_class *)arg;
 
-	list_del(&cl->alist);
+	list_del_init(&cl->alist);
 }
 
 static int drr_dump_class(struct Qdisc *sch, unsigned long arg,
@@ -399,7 +400,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *drr_dequeue(struct Qdisc *sch)
 			if (unlikely(skb == NULL))
 				goto out;
 			if (cl->qdisc->q.qlen == 0)
-				list_del(&cl->alist);
+				list_del_init(&cl->alist);
 
 			bstats_update(&cl->bstats, skb);
 			qdisc_bstats_update(sch, skb);
@@ -440,7 +441,7 @@ static void drr_reset_qdisc(struct Qdisc *sch)
 	for (i = 0; i < q->clhash.hashsize; i++) {
 		hlist_for_each_entry(cl, &q->clhash.hash[i], common.hnode) {
 			if (cl->qdisc->q.qlen)
-				list_del(&cl->alist);
+				list_del_init(&cl->alist);
 			qdisc_reset(cl->qdisc);
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.43.0




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