netdev - Re: [Patch net] net_sched: avoid matching qdisc with zero handle

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Date:   Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:56:12 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dcaratti@...hat.com, jkosina@...e.cz,
        edumazet@...gle.com, jhs@...atatu.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net] net_sched: avoid matching qdisc with zero handle

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:08:56 -0700

> Davide found the following script triggers a NULL pointer
> dereference:
> 
> ip l a name eth0 type dummy
> tc q a dev eth0 parent :1 handle 1: htb
> 
> This is because for a freshly created netdevice noop_qdisc
> is attached and when passing 'parent :1', kernel actually
> tries to match the major handle which is 0 and noop_qdisc
> has handle 0 so is matched by mistake. Commit 69012ae425d7
> tries to fix a similar bug but still misses this case.
> 
> Handle 0 is not a valid one, should be just skipped. In
> fact, kernel uses it as TC_H_UNSPEC.
> 
> Fixes: 69012ae425d7 ("net: sched: fix handling of singleton qdiscs with qdisc_hash")
> Fixes: 59cc1f61f09c ("net: sched:convert qdisc linked list to hashtable")
> Reported-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.