Bug 2449560 (CVE-2026-23277) - CVE-2026-23277 kernel: net/sched: teql: fix NULL pointer dereference in iptunnel_xmit on TEQL slave xmit
Summary: CVE-2026-23277 kernel: net/sched: teql: fix NULL pointer dereference in iptun...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23277
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-03-20 09:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-20 12:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-20 09:02:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: teql: fix NULL pointer dereference in iptunnel_xmit on TEQL slave xmit

teql_master_xmit() calls netdev_start_xmit(skb, slave) to transmit
through slave devices, but does not update skb->dev to the slave device
beforehand.

When a gretap tunnel is a TEQL slave, the transmit path reaches
iptunnel_xmit() which saves dev = skb->dev (still pointing to teql0
master) and later calls iptunnel_xmit_stats(dev, pkt_len). This
function does:

    get_cpu_ptr(dev->tstats)

Since teql_master_setup() does not set dev->pcpu_stat_type to
NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_TSTATS, the core network stack never allocates tstats
for teql0, so dev->tstats is NULL. get_cpu_ptr(NULL) computes
NULL + __per_cpu_offset[cpu], resulting in a page fault.

 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff8880e6659018
 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
 PGD 68bc067 P4D 68bc067 PUD 0
 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
 RIP: 0010:iptunnel_xmit (./include/net/ip_tunnels.h:664 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:89)
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847)
  __gre_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:478)
  gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779)
  teql_master_xmit (net/sched/sch_teql.c:319)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802)
  neigh_direct_output (net/core/neighbour.c:1660)
  ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237)
  __ip_finish_output.part.0 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:315)
  ip_mc_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:369)
  ip_send_skb (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1508)
  udp_send_skb (net/ipv4/udp.c:1195)
  udp_sendmsg (net/ipv4/udp.c:1485)
  inet_sendmsg (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:859)
  __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2206)

Fix this by setting skb->dev = slave before calling
netdev_start_xmit(), so that tunnel xmit functions see the correct
slave device with properly allocated tstats.


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