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Message-ID: <20251028035859.2067690-1-kuniyu@google.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:58:23 +0000
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, 
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>, 
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	syzbot+87e1289a044fcd0c5f62@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 net-next] net: sched: Don't use WARN_ON_ONCE() for -ENOMEM
 in tcf_classify().

As demonstrated by syzbot, WARN_ON_ONCE() in tcf_classify() can
be easily triggered by fault injection. [0]

We should not use WARN_ON_ONCE() for the simple -ENOMEM case.

Also, we provide SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM for the same error.

Let's remove WARN_ON_ONCE() there.

[0]:
FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
name failslab, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 31392 Comm: syz.8.7081 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250
 should_fail_ex+0x414/0x560
 should_failslab+0xa8/0x100
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x74/0x6e0
 skb_ext_add+0x148/0x8f0
 tcf_classify+0xeba/0x1140
 multiq_enqueue+0xfd/0x4c0 net/sched/sch_multiq.c:66
...
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 31392 at net/sched/cls_api.c:1869 tcf_classify+0xfd7/0x1140
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 31392 Comm: syz.8.7081 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:tcf_classify+0xfd7/0x1140
Code: e8 03 42 0f b6 04 30 84 c0 0f 85 41 01 00 00 66 41 89 1f eb 05 e8 89 26 75 f8 bb ff ff ff ff e9 04 f9 ff ff e8 7a 26 75 f8 90 <0f> 0b 90 49 83 c5 44 4c 89 eb 49 c1 ed 03 43 0f b6 44 35 00 84 c0
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b7671f0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff894addf6 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: ffff888025029e40
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8bbf05c0 RDI: ffffffff8bbf0580
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 1ffffffff1c0bfd6
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c0bfd7 R12: ffff88805a90de5c
R13: ffff88805a90ddc0 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc9000b7672c0
FS:  00007f20739f66c0(0000) GS:ffff88812613e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c2d2a80 CR3: 0000000024e36000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 multiq_classify net/sched/sch_multiq.c:39 [inline]
 multiq_enqueue+0xfd/0x4c0 net/sched/sch_multiq.c:66
 dev_qdisc_enqueue+0x4e/0x260 net/core/dev.c:4118
 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4214 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0xe83/0x3b50 net/core/dev.c:4729
 packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3076 [inline]
 packet_sendmsg+0x3e33/0x5080 net/packet/af_packet.c:3108
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:742
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x505/0x830 net/socket.c:2630
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2684
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2716 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2721 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2719 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x19b/0x260 net/socket.c:2719
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f207578efc9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f20739f6038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f20759e5fa0 RCX: 00007f207578efc9
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f20739f6090 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007f20759e6038 R14: 00007f20759e5fa0 R15: 00007f2075b0fa28
 </TASK>

Reported-by: syzbot+87e1289a044fcd0c5f62@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/69003e33.050a0220.32483.00e8.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
---
targetting net-next since there's no real bug.
---
 net/sched/cls_api.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index ecec0a1e1c1a..f751cd5eeac8 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -1866,7 +1866,7 @@ int tcf_classify(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			struct tc_skb_cb *cb = tc_skb_cb(skb);
 
 			ext = tc_skb_ext_alloc(skb);
-			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ext)) {
+			if (!ext) {
 				tcf_set_drop_reason(skb, SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM);
 				return TC_ACT_SHOT;
 			}
-- 
2.51.1.838.g19442a804e-goog