From: Jamal Hadi Salim htb_classify() follows each filter-selected inner class by switching to cl->filter_list, but never bounds the number of hops. A filter on an inner class can point back to itself or to another inner class that points back, creating an infinite loop in the packet classification path with the qdisc lock held and BH disabled — a soft lockup / panic from a single packet. Bound the traversal with a hop counter and drop the packet with a rate-limited warning once the bound is exceeded. The counter is incremented at the point the inner filter chain is picked up, after the TC_ACT_* switch has consumed the classifier verdict, so a terminal TC_ACT_QUEUED/STOLEN/TRAP on the last permitted chain still sets *qerr to __NET_XMIT_STOLEN and the packet is not charged as a drop by this qdisc or its parent. The bound is TC_HTB_MAXDEPTH, taken from HTB's own parameters rather than from the qdisc hierarchy depth limit. Class levels run from 0 to TC_HTB_MAXDEPTH - 1, so a traversal that strictly descends in level can take at most TC_HTB_MAXDEPTH hops. That descent is what a sane configuration does, but it is assumed here rather than enforced: htb_find() resolves a classid against every class in the qdisc, so a filter may equally select a sibling or an ancestor. The normal root -> inner -> leaf path takes a single hop, so the bound does not affect legitimate classification. htb_classify() can now return NULL irrespective of CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT, whereas previously every NULL return sat inside that ifdef. The NULL handler in htb_enqueue() therefore cannot stay conditional either, so drop the ifdef around it. This matches hfsc_enqueue(), which has always handled a NULL class unconditionally. Without it, a kernel built without actions would dereference a NULL class instead of dropping. Conditions to recreate the bug: - CONFIG_NET_SCHED, CONFIG_NET_SCH_HTB, CONFIG_NET_CLS_U32, CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR. - Create an HTB qdisc on a device (e.g. lo), add an inner class 1:1 with a leaf child 1:10, install a root u32 filter selecting 1:1, and an inner-class u32 filter on 1:1 also selecting 1:1. - Send one packet (ping). On the unfixed kernel the classify loop spins with the qdisc lock held; with softlockup_panic=1 it panics. - Reachable from unprivileged user via unshare -Urn (CAP_NET_ADMIN). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Vega Co-developed-by: Victor Nogueira Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim --- v1 -> v2: - Count the hop where the inner filter chain is picked up instead of at the top of the loop body. That way we don't ignore the run's verdict for the last iteration (Sashiko) - Fix reverse xmas tree declaration ordering for the new hops variable - Add a name to the Reported-by tag v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260824161809.4147223-1-victor@mojatatu.com --- net/sched/sch_htb.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sched/sch_htb.c b/net/sched/sch_htb.c index fdac0dc8f35a..1ba67b121de4 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_htb.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_htb.c @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ static struct htb_class *htb_classify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *sch, struct htb_class *cl; struct tcf_result res; struct tcf_proto *tcf; + unsigned int hops = 0; int result; /* allow to select class by setting skb->priority to valid classid; @@ -266,6 +267,10 @@ static struct htb_class *htb_classify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *sch, if (!cl->level) return cl; /* we hit leaf; return it */ + if (++hops > TC_HTB_MAXDEPTH) { + pr_warn_ratelimited("htb: classify loop detected, dropping packet\n"); + return NULL; + } /* we have got inner class; apply inner filter chain */ tcf = rcu_dereference_bh(cl->filter_list); } @@ -633,13 +638,11 @@ static int htb_enqueue(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *sch, } else { return qdisc_drop(skb, sch, to_free); } -#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT } else if (!cl) { if (ret & __NET_XMIT_BYPASS) qdisc_qstats_drop(sch); __qdisc_drop(skb, to_free); return ret; -#endif } else if ((ret = qdisc_enqueue(skb, cl->leaf.q, to_free)) != NET_XMIT_SUCCESS) { if (net_xmit_drop_count(ret)) { -- 2.55.0