CVE-2026-98811 (GCVE-0-2026-98811)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 15:48 – Updated: 2026-10-30 12:39
VLAI
Title
net/sched: cls_api: reclaim an empty proto on the error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_api: reclaim an empty proto on the error path Two racing tc filter add requests on the same chain/prio of an unlocked classifier both run change() on the shared proto and both can fail: the winner's tcf_chain_tp_delete_empty() attempt gives up because the loser's handle is still in the idr, and the loser's error path drops only its own reference without a second reclamation attempt. The empty proto stays linked in the chain, holding the chain reference, a block reference and the classifier module reference until the chain or block is torn down. Reclaim the proto on the error path of any failed request that holds a proto reference. The reclamation is emptiness-gated: tcf_chain_tp_delete_empty() unlinks the proto only when delete_empty() admits it is empty, so a live shared proto is never unlinked. A proto the request created is reclaimed unconditionally - it is the only owner, so marking it for deletion is safe even without a delete_empty callback. Classifiers without one (the check marks the proto unconditionally) are rtnl-serialized, so the raced window this guard closes cannot arise for them. This is a follow-up to commit d4e359b3608a ("net/sched: cls_api: fix teardown of an adopted proto on insert-race loss"), which stopped the loser of the insert race from unlinking the winner's live proto but left the empty-proto residual in place. Conditions to recreate: - CONFIG_NET_CLS_FLOWER=y; veth pair - tc qdisc add dev veth0 ingress - two concurrent `tc filter add dev veth0 ingress protocol ip pref 1 flower skip_sw ... action drop` (both fail in fl_hw_replace_filter after publishing their handle in the idr); repeat in a loop - an empty flower tp stays linked after both requests fail; visible as a bare `filter protocol ip pref 1 flower chain 0` header in `tc filter show` with no filter entries - CAP_NET_ADMIN (namespace-local via unshare -Urn suffices)
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8b64678e0af8f4d62a40149baedebe78503a5255 , < 0f005c9b8b2e4c018e598cbaf490f27bebfd3d1f (git)
Affected: 8b64678e0af8f4d62a40149baedebe78503a5255 , < 00ad96ee96760d2f12f8c4b3a43f6c6b742c452f (git)
Affected: 8b64678e0af8f4d62a40149baedebe78503a5255 , < 0fc74e7d97d232095ce64cb45d25f0919df7ad4a (git)
Affected: 8b64678e0af8f4d62a40149baedebe78503a5255 , < 315e4fe65cf02ef052de5e6298c3088e448b7517 (git)
Affected: 8b64678e0af8f4d62a40149baedebe78503a5255 , < ebc9611ab154c0cd9f1320e2a73f5e936d7535a9 (git)
Affected: 8b64678e0af8f4d62a40149baedebe78503a5255 , < 570141625d212fbbcffb9665cb45c0f04610e61a (git)
Affected: 8b64678e0af8f4d62a40149baedebe78503a5255 , < 0bb8eab29b55045281a4963d4557f2776cdf8cfa (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.224 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.191 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.113 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.56 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.10 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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    Related by attack behaviour

    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.