Re: [PATCH net] net: team: stop reusing skb after queue override

From
Hangbin Liu <hidden>
Date
2026-09-30 06:04:53
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Reply to
Weiming Shi, 2026-09-26
Hi Weiming,
On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 05:00:39PM +0800, Weiming Shi wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
dev_queue_xmit() consumes the skb regardless of its return value, but
team_queue_override_transmit() treats a non-zero result as if no handoff
occurred.  An AF_PACKET sendto() can therefore make team_xmit() pass a
freed skb to another override port or the mode fallback when the port qdisc
drops the packet.

Report the handoff decision separately from transmit success and stop after
the first override port.  This preserves the existing success and drop
accounting.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_skb_reason_drop
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800d5e979c by task poc/131
  Call Trace:
  ...
  sk_skb_reason_drop (net/core/skbuff.c:1220 net/core/skbuff.c:1249)
  team_dummy_transmit (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:502)
  team_xmit (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1869)
  __dev_direct_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4990)
  packet_xmit (net/packet/af_packet.c:286)
  packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3140,3172)
  __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:800,815,2281)
  __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2288,2284)
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
  Freed by task 131:
  ...
  __tcf_kfree_skb_list (net/sched/sch_generic.c:59)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4353,4884)
  team_xmit (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:832,1867)
  __dev_direct_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4990)
  packet_xmit (net/packet/af_packet.c:286)
  packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3140,3172)
  __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:800,815,2281)
  __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2288,2284)
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
  Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...

Fixes: 8ff5105a2b9d ("team: add support for queue override by setting queue_id for port")
Reported-by: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/team/team_core.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/team/team_core.c b/drivers/net/team/team_core.c
index beffbe450612..59dd94271ff1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/team/team_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/team/team_core.c
@@ -820,7 +820,8 @@ static struct list_head *__team_get_qom_list(struct team *team, u16 queue_id)
 /*
  * note: already called with rcu_read_lock
  */
-static bool team_queue_override_transmit(struct team *team, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static bool team_queue_override_transmit(struct team *team, struct sk_buff *skb,
+					 bool *tx_success)
 {
 	struct list_head *qom_list;
 	struct team_port *port;
@@ -829,8 +830,8 @@ static bool team_queue_override_transmit(struct team *team, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		return false;
 	qom_list = __team_get_qom_list(team, skb->queue_mapping);
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(port, qom_list, qom_list) {
-		if (!team_dev_queue_xmit(team, port, skb))
-			return true;
+		*tx_success = !team_dev_queue_xmit(team, port, skb);
+		return true;
 	}

Since dev_queue_xmit() consumes the skb and we should not loop for all
the ports. Is there still a need to using list_for_each_entry_rcu()?

Thanks
Hangbin
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 	return false;
 }
@@ -1864,8 +1865,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t team_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	bool tx_success;
 	unsigned int len = skb->len;
 
-	tx_success = team_queue_override_transmit(team, skb);
-	if (!tx_success)
+	if (!team_queue_override_transmit(team, skb, &tx_success))
 		tx_success = READ_ONCE(team->ops.transmit)(team, skb);
 	if (tx_success) {
 		struct team_pcpu_stats *pcpu_stats;
-- 
2.55.0
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