In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sched: avoid qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() vs dequeue race for lockless qdiscs
When shrinking the number of real tx queues,
netif_set_real_num_tx_queues() calls qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() to flush
qdiscs for queues which will no longer be used.
qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() currently serializes qdisc_reset() with
qdisc_lock(). However, for lockless qdiscs, the dequeue path is
serialized by qdisc_run_begin/end() using qdisc->seqlock instead, so
qdisc_reset() can run concurrently with __qdisc_run() and free skbs
while they are still being dequeued, leading to UAF.
This can easily be reproduced on e.g. virtio-net by imposing heavy
traffic while frequently changing the number of queue pairs:
iperf3 -ub0 -c $peer -t 0 &
while :; do
ethtool -L eth0 combined 1
ethtool -L eth0 combined 2
done
With KASAN enabled, this leads to reports like:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __qdisc_run+0x133f/0x1760
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
...
__qdisc_run+0x133f/0x1760
__dev_queue_xmit+0x248f/0x3550
ip_finish_output2+0xa42/0x2110
ip_output+0x1a7/0x410
ip_send_skb+0x2e6/0x480
udp_send_skb+0xb0a/0x1590
udp_sendmsg+0x13c9/0x1fc0
...
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1270 on cpu 5 at 44.558414s:
...
alloc_skb_with_frags+0x84/0x7c0
sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x69a/0x830
__ip_append_data+0x1b86/0x48c0
ip_make_skb+0x1e8/0x2b0
udp_sendmsg+0x13a6/0x1fc0
...
Freed by task 1306 on cpu 3 at 44.558445s:
...
kmem_cache_free+0x117/0x5e0
pfifo_fast_reset+0x14d/0x580
qdisc_reset+0x9e/0x5f0
netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0x303/0x840
virtnet_set_channels+0x1bf/0x260 [virtio_net]
ethnl_set_channels+0x684/0xae0
ethnl_default_set_doit+0x31a/0x890
...
Serialize qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() against the lockless dequeue path by
taking qdisc->seqlock for TCQ_F_NOLOCK qdiscs, matching the
serialization model already used by dev_reset_queue().
Additionally clear QDISC_STATE_NON_EMPTY after reset so the qdisc state
reflects an empty queue, avoiding needless re-scheduling.