net_sched: red: fix a race in __red_change()
[ Upstream commit 85a3e0ede38450ea3053b8c45d28cf55208409b8 ] Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in RED, 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. Fixes: 0c8d13ac ("net: sched: red: delay destroying child qdisc on replace") Reported-by:Gerrard Tai <gerrard.tai@starlabs.sg> Suggested-by:
Gerrard Tai <gerrard.tai@starlabs.sg> Signed-off-by:
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250611111515.1983366-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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