Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2026-03-05

Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net/sched: act_ife: Fix metalist update behavior

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2026-03-05 16:10:29

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref]:

On Wed,  4 Mar 2026 09:06:02 -0500 you wrote:
Whenever an ife action replace changes the metalist, instead of
replacing the old data on the metalist, the current ife code is appending
the new metadata. Aside from being innapropriate behavior, this may lead
to an unbounded addition of metadata to the metalist which might cause an
out of bounds error when running the encode op:

[  138.423369][    C1] ==================================================================
[  138.424317][    C1] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)
[  138.424906][    C1] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880077f4ffe by task ife_out_out_bou/255
[  138.425778][    C1] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 255 Comm: ife_out_out_bou Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1-00169-gfbdfa8da05b6 #624 PREEMPT(full)
[  138.425795][    C1] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[  138.425800][    C1] Call Trace:
[  138.425804][    C1]  <IRQ>
[  138.425808][    C1]  dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
[  138.425828][    C1]  print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
[  138.425839][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[  138.425844][    C1]  ? __virt_addr_valid (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:95 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:975 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/mmzone.h:2207 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:54 (discriminator 1))
[  138.425853][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)
[  138.425859][    C1]  kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:221 mm/kasan/report.c:597)
[  138.425868][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)
[  138.425878][    C1]  kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:186 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/generic.c:200 (discriminator 1))
[  138.425884][    C1]  __asan_memset (mm/kasan/shadow.c:84 (discriminator 2))
[  138.425889][    C1]  ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)
[  138.425893][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:171)
[  138.425898][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[  138.425903][    C1]  ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:57)
[  138.425910][    C1]  ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:114)
[  138.425916][    C1]  ? __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105 (discriminator 3))
[  138.425921][    C1]  ? __pfx_ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:45)
[  138.425927][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[  138.425931][    C1]  tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:847 net/sched/act_ife.c:879)

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,1/2] net/sched: act_ife: Fix metalist update behavior
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/e2cedd400c3e
  - [net,2/2] selftests/tc-testing: Add tests exercising act_ife metalist replace behaviour
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/5d1271ff4c13

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