Bug 2374012 (CVE-2025-38083)

Summary: CVE-2025-38083 kernel: net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-20 12:01:08 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()

Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in PRIO, whenever SFQ perturb timer
fires at the wrong time.

The race is as follows:

CPU 0                                 CPU 1
[1]: lock root
[2]: qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
[3]: unlock root
 |
 |                                    [5]: lock root
 |                                    [6]: rehash
 |                                    [7]: qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
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[4]: qdisc_put()

This can be abused to underflow a parent's qlen.

Calling qdisc_purge_queue() instead of qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
should fix the race, because all packets will be purged from the qdisc
before releasing the lock.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-21 06:11:49 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025062055-CVE-2025-38083-b226@gregkh/T