Bug 2356598 (CVE-2025-21971) - CVE-2025-21971 kernel: net_sched: Prevent creation of classes with TC_H_ROOT
Summary: CVE-2025-21971 kernel: net_sched: Prevent creation of classes with TC_H_ROOT
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21971
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2025-04-01 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-02 04:54 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-01 16:01:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net_sched: Prevent creation of classes with TC_H_ROOT

The function qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() uses TC_H_ROOT as a termination
condition when traversing up the qdisc tree to update parent backlog
counters. However, if a class is created with classid TC_H_ROOT, the
traversal terminates prematurely at this class instead of reaching the
actual root qdisc, causing parent statistics to be incorrectly maintained.
In case of DRR, this could lead to a crash as reported by Mingi Cho.

Prevent the creation of any Qdisc class with classid TC_H_ROOT
(0xFFFFFFFF) across all qdisc types, as suggested by Jamal.


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