kernel/linux.git/net/sched, branch v6.6.152

net/sched: act_gact, act_police: range check the fallback control action

2026-08-19T16:13:12+00:00

commit 883b56ae58fe657d8497806c7059646e9ba6dbd0 upstream. tcf_action_check_ctrlact() range checks the primary control action: if (!opcode) ret = action > TC_ACT_VALUE_MAX ? -EINVAL : 0; TC_ACT_VALUE_MAX is TC_ACT_TRAP, so kernel-internal verdicts above it cannot be set that way. But act_gact and act_police each carry a second, independent control action supplied by user space that never reaches that helper - TCA_GACT_PROB.paction and TCA_POLICE_RESULT. Both only reject TC_ACT_GOTO_CHAIN, so any other value is stored verbatim and returned verbatim from the action. In particular user space can store TC_ACT_CONSUMED, which is TC_ACT_VALUE_MAX + 1 and is deliberately not part of the UAPI value range. That verdict tells every caller the action took ownership of the skb, so nobody frees it: sch_handle_ingress(), sch_handle_egress() and tcf_qevent_handle() all deliberately skip the free for it. The result is one leaked sk_buff plus its data buffer per packet traversing the filter, unbounded, for all traffic on the chain including kernel-generated packets. Both are trivially deterministic. act_gact clamps tcfg_pval to >= 1, so with pval = 1 gact_determ() returns the fallback for every packet. act_police has no mandatory rate, so rate = 0 leaves tcfp_mtu = ~0 and tcf_police_mtu_check() always passes. TC_ACT_CONSUMED was added by commit 720f22fed81b ("net: sched: refactor reinsert action"), after both goto-chain guards were written: commit 9469f375ab09 ("net/sched: act_gact: disallow 'goto chain' on fallback control action") and commit c08f5ed5d625 ("net/sched: act_police: disallow 'goto chain' on fallback control action"). Neither guard was widened when the new verdict appeared. Factor the existing range test out of tcf_action_check_ctrlact() as tcf_action_valid() and apply it to both fallbacks. The helper cannot call tcf_action_check_ctrlact() directly because that also allocates a goto_chain, which is exactly what these two sites must not do. Reproduced on v7.2-rc6: kmemleak reports one leaked 232-byte skbuff_head_cache object plus its 704-byte data buffer per packet. With this patch both configurations are rejected with -EINVAL and kmemleak reports none. Fixes: 720f22fed81b ("net: sched: refactor reinsert action") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.3+ Signed-off-by: Hyunjung Ko Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Tested-by: Victor Nogueira Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806101252.809593-1-hj351016@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net/sched: act_ct: fix sk_buff leak when the header checks reject a packet

2026-08-19T16:13:12+00:00

commit 8a7ed561671aa6a911a2de99e59ef670a4d0b1df upstream. tcf_ct_handle_fragments() runs its header sanity checks before handing anything to the defragmentation engine: if (family == NFPROTO_IPV4) err = tcf_ct_ipv4_is_fragment(skb, &frag); else err = tcf_ct_ipv6_is_fragment(skb, &frag); if (err || !frag) return err; tcf_ct_ipv4_is_fragment() returns -EINVAL or -ENOMEM; tcf_ct_ipv6_is_fragment() adds -EPROTO when ipv6_find_hdr() fails. None of them frees or queues the skb, so on that path the caller still owns it. tcf_ct_act() however funnels every non-zero return into the ownership-transfer exit: err = tcf_ct_handle_fragments(net, skb, family, p->zone, &defrag); if (err) goto out_frag; ... out_frag: if (err != -EINPROGRESS) tcf_action_inc_drop_qstats(&c->common); return TC_ACT_CONSUMED; TC_ACT_CONSUMED means the action took ownership of the skb, so no caller frees it - sch_handle_ingress(), sch_handle_egress() and tcf_qevent_handle() all deliberately skip the free for that verdict. The skb is therefore orphaned: one sk_buff plus its data buffer is leaked per malformed packet, unbounded. Note the drop counter is already incremented for these errors, so the statistics claim a drop that never happens. Three different ownership states reach out_frag: today - the skb may be queued by the defrag engine (-EINPROGRESS), already freed by nf_ct_handle_fragments(), or still owned by us. Tell the caller which of those it is, and free the packet ourselves in the last case, which restores the TC_ACT_SHOT behaviour that predated the Fixes: commit. Reproduced on v7.2-rc6 with a 54-byte frame carrying a 40-byte IPv6 header with nexthdr = 0 (hop-by-hop) and nothing after it, on a clsact ingress chain with "action ct". kmemleak reports one leaked 232-byte skbuff_head_cache object plus its 704-byte data buffer per packet; with this patch it reports none. Fixes: 3f14b377d01d ("net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8+ Signed-off-by: Hyunjung Ko Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806101235.809370-1-hj351016@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net/sched: reject overly deep qdisc hierarchies

2026-08-19T16:13:10+00:00

commit dedd34b0f2310e28c5f6d4875cfbf4b7ed821c01 upstream. Deep qdisc hierarchies can lead to excessive recursion in qdisc tree walkers and exhaust the kernel stack. The existing loop check does not cover the create-and-graft path, so a hierarchy can still be extended by creating a new child qdisc below an already deep parent. Store the hierarchy depth in struct Qdisc and update it when qdiscs are grafted. Reject new child qdiscs once the parent is already at the maximum allowed depth. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Reported-by: Vega Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4 Signed-off-by: Zijie Huang Signed-off-by: Ren Wei Reviewed-by: Victor Nogueira Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1e9ab39597423fd5d13cfaaf52279b8ee3d9fc3c.1785434373.git.milkory@outlook.com Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers

2026-08-19T16:13:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit a347304b2ca1a5377d5bd2d8a72e4b4f12afe648 ] Another challenge with unlocked filters. There is a short window in tc_new_tfilter where a tcf_proto can be found and briefly referenced by a totally unrelated, unlocked classifier's request and cause a race. Feng created a poc which created this race with two threads, one creating a u32 filter and other a flower filter in the same chain/prio: 1. Both threads enter tc_new_tfilter, both find the chain empty, both drop filter_chain_lock 2. u32 finishes tcf_proto_create("u32") first, calls tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique() -> inserts u32_tp into the chain 3. flower finishes tcf_proto_create("flower") later, calls tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique() -> tcf_chain_tp_find() now sees u32_tp already there, takes a reference on it, destroys flower's own tp_new and returns u32_tp to the caller. Flower then hits the kind mismatch check (because it requested for kind "flower" but tp->ops->kind is "u32") and goes through the errout path which calls tcf_proto_put() on u32_tp. If the u32 thread has already gone through its own errout (its change() call failed on the PoC's empty options) and dropped its create and insert refs, flower's put is the last one and drops u32_tp's refcnt to zero. At this point tp->ops->destroy() runs in a context that never took rtnl_lock. When that happens, it might cause a UAF like the following (illustrated by the PoC): [ +0.000710] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in u32_init (net/sched/cls_u32.c:393) [ +0.000281] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888120022f00 by task poc_feng_xue/524 Call Trace: u32_init (net/sched/cls_u32.c:393) tc_new_tfilter (net/sched/cls_api.c:2378) Allocated by task 526: u32_init (net/sched/cls_u32.c:378) tc_new_tfilter (net/sched/cls_api.c:2378) Freed by task 522: kfree u32_destroy (net/sched/cls_u32.c:662) tcf_proto_destroy (net/sched/cls_api.c:446) tcf_proto_put (net/sched/cls_api.c:459) tc_new_tfilter (net/sched/cls_api.c:2459) Fix this by having tcf_proto_destroy() take rtnl_lock around tp->ops->destroy() for locked classifiers whenever rtnl is not held. To explain why I used a temp variable "not_lockless" I'd like to point to a semi-related note on rtnl_held vs TCF_PROTO_OPS_DOIT_UNLOCKED (adding here for future cleanup if deemed necessary): The rtnl_held parameter and the TCF_PROTO_OPS_DOIT_UNLOCKED flag are redundant sources of truth for whether rtnl_lock is held. Among the nine classifier destroy(..rtnl_held..) callbacks, only flower consults the rtnl_held parameter which it propagates to tc_setup_cb_destroy() and tc_setup_cb_call(). The other eight (u32, flow, bpf, cgroup, route, basic, fw, mall) ignore it entirely;-> those that call tc_setup_cb_destroy() (u32, bpf, mall) hardcode true always instead of forwarding the parameter. A future cleanup should remove the rtnl_held parameter from the destroy callback signature entirely and have callers rely solely on their knowledge whether they are running in an unlocked context. Fixes: 12db03b65c2b ("net: sched: extend proto ops to support unlocked classifiers") Reported-by: Feng Xue Tested-by: Victor Nogueira Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801125632.360365-1-jhs@mojatatu.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: sched: refine software bypass handling in tc_run

2026-08-19T16:13:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit a12c76a03386e32413ae8eaaefa337e491880632 ] This patch addresses issues with filter counting in block (tcf_block), particularly for software bypass scenarios, by introducing a more accurate mechanism using useswcnt. Previously, filtercnt and skipswcnt were introduced by: Commit 2081fd3445fe ("net: sched: cls_api: add filter counter") and Commit f631ef39d819 ("net: sched: cls_api: add skip_sw counter") filtercnt tracked all tp (tcf_proto) objects added to a block, and skipswcnt counted tp objects with the skipsw attribute set. The problem is: a single tp can contain multiple filters, some with skipsw and others without. The current implementation fails in the case: When the first filter in a tp has skipsw, both skipswcnt and filtercnt are incremented, then adding a second filter without skipsw to the same tp does not modify these counters because tp->counted is already set. This results in bypass software behavior based solely on skipswcnt equaling filtercnt, even when the block includes filters without skipsw. Consequently, filters without skipsw are inadvertently bypassed. To address this, the patch introduces useswcnt in block to explicitly count tp objects containing at least one filter without skipsw. Key changes include: Whenever a filter without skipsw is added, its tp is marked with usesw and counted in useswcnt. tc_run() now uses useswcnt to determine software bypass, eliminating reliance on filtercnt and skipswcnt. This refined approach prevents software bypass for blocks containing mixed filters, ensuring correct behavior in tc_run(). Additionally, as atomic operations on useswcnt ensure thread safety and tp->lock guards access to tp->usesw and tp->counted, the broader lock down_write(&block->cb_lock) is no longer required in tc_new_tfilter(), and this resolves a performance regression caused by the filter counting mechanism during parallel filter insertions. The improvement can be demonstrated using the following script: # cat insert_tc_rules.sh tc qdisc add dev ens1f0np0 ingress for i in $(seq 16); do taskset -c $i tc -b rules_$i.txt & done wait Each of rules_$i.txt files above includes 100000 tc filter rules to a mlx5 driver NIC ens1f0np0. Without this patch: # time sh insert_tc_rules.sh real 0m50.780s user 0m23.556s sys 4m13.032s With this patch: # time sh insert_tc_rules.sh real 0m17.718s user 0m7.807s sys 3m45.050s Fixes: 047f340b36fc ("net: sched: make skip_sw actually skip software") Reported-by: Shuang Li Signed-off-by: Xin Long Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Reviewed-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Tested-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a347304b2ca1 ("net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: sched: cls_api: fix slab-use-after-free in fl_dump_key

2026-08-19T16:13:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2ecd487b670fcbb1ad4893fff1af4aafdecb6023 ] The filter counter is updated under the protection of cb_lock in the cited commit. While waiting for the lock, it's possible the filter is being deleted by other thread, and thus causes UAF when dump it. Fix this issue by moving tcf_block_filter_cnt_update() after tfilter_put(). ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fl_dump_key+0x1d3e/0x20d0 [cls_flower] Read of size 4 at addr ffff88814f864000 by task tc/2973 CPU: 7 PID: 2973 Comm: tc Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2_for_upstream_debug_2024_04_02_12_41 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x7e/0xc0 print_report+0xc1/0x600 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x1cf/0x390 ? fl_dump_key+0x1d3e/0x20d0 [cls_flower] ? fl_dump_key+0x1d3e/0x20d0 [cls_flower] kasan_report+0xb9/0xf0 ? fl_dump_key+0x1d3e/0x20d0 [cls_flower] fl_dump_key+0x1d3e/0x20d0 [cls_flower] ? lock_acquire+0x1c2/0x530 ? fl_dump+0x172/0x5c0 [cls_flower] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400 ? fl_dump_key_options.part.0+0x10f0/0x10f0 [cls_flower] ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x12d/0x270 ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0 fl_dump+0x21d/0x5c0 [cls_flower] ? fl_tmplt_dump+0x1f0/0x1f0 [cls_flower] ? nla_put+0x15f/0x1c0 tcf_fill_node+0x51b/0x9a0 ? tc_skb_ext_tc_enable+0x150/0x150 ? __alloc_skb+0x17b/0x310 ? __build_skb_around+0x340/0x340 ? down_write+0x1b0/0x1e0 tfilter_notify+0x1a5/0x390 ? fl_terse_dump+0x400/0x400 [cls_flower] tc_new_tfilter+0x963/0x2170 ? tc_del_tfilter+0x1490/0x1490 ? print_usage_bug.part.0+0x670/0x670 ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680 ? security_capable+0x51/0x90 ? tc_del_tfilter+0x1490/0x1490 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x75e/0xac0 ? if_nlmsg_stats_size+0x4c0/0x4c0 ? lockdep_set_lock_cmp_fn+0x190/0x190 ? __netlink_lookup+0x35e/0x6e0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360 ? if_nlmsg_stats_size+0x4c0/0x4c0 ? netlink_ack+0x15e0/0x15e0 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400 ? netlink_deliver_tap+0xcd/0xa60 ? netlink_deliver_tap+0xcd/0xa60 ? netlink_deliver_tap+0x1c9/0xa60 netlink_unicast+0x43e/0x700 ? netlink_attachskb+0x750/0x750 ? lock_acquire+0x1c2/0x530 ? __might_fault+0xbb/0x170 netlink_sendmsg+0x749/0xc10 ? netlink_unicast+0x700/0x700 ? __might_fault+0xbb/0x170 ? netlink_unicast+0x700/0x700 __sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190 ____sys_sendmsg+0x534/0x6b0 ? import_iovec+0x7/0x10 ? kernel_sendmsg+0x30/0x30 ? __copy_msghdr+0x3c0/0x3c0 ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e ? lock_acquire+0x1c2/0x530 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x116/0x390 ___sys_sendmsg+0xeb/0x170 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x1ca/0x390 ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x110/0x110 ? __delete_object+0xb8/0x100 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x1cf/0x390 ? do_sys_openat2+0x102/0x150 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x284/0x400 ? do_sys_openat2+0x102/0x150 ? __fget_light+0x53/0x1d0 ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x1a/0x150 __sys_sendmsg+0xb5/0x140 ? __sys_sendmsg_sock+0x20/0x20 ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680 do_syscall_64+0x70/0x140 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e RIP: 0033:0x7f98e3713367 Code: 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b9 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 89 74 24 10 RSP: 002b:00007ffc74a64608 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000047eae0 RCX: 00007f98e3713367 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffc74a64670 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00007f98e360c5e8 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc74a6a508 R13: 00000000660d518d R14: 0000000000484a80 R15: 00007ffc74a6a50b Allocated by task 2973: kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30 __kasan_kmalloc+0x77/0x90 fl_change+0x27a6/0x4540 [cls_flower] tc_new_tfilter+0x879/0x2170 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x75e/0xac0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360 netlink_unicast+0x43e/0x700 netlink_sendmsg+0x749/0xc10 __sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190 ____sys_sendmsg+0x534/0x6b0 ___sys_sendmsg+0xeb/0x170 __sys_sendmsg+0xb5/0x140 do_syscall_64+0x70/0x140 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e Freed by task 283: kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30 kasan_save_free_info+0x37/0x50 poison_slab_object+0x105/0x190 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x30 kfree+0x111/0x340 process_one_work+0x787/0x1490 worker_thread+0x586/0xd30 kthread+0x2df/0x3b0 ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 Last potentially related work creation: kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x9b/0xb0 insert_work+0x25/0x1b0 __queue_work+0x640/0xc90 rcu_work_rcufn+0x42/0x70 rcu_core+0x6a9/0x1850 __do_softirq+0x264/0x88f Second to last potentially related work creation: kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x9b/0xb0 __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x6f/0xac0 queue_rcu_work+0x56/0x70 fl_mask_put+0x20d/0x270 [cls_flower] __fl_delete+0x352/0x6b0 [cls_flower] fl_delete+0x97/0x160 [cls_flower] tc_del_tfilter+0x7d1/0x1490 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x75e/0xac0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360 netlink_unicast+0x43e/0x700 netlink_sendmsg+0x749/0xc10 __sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190 ____sys_sendmsg+0x534/0x6b0 ___sys_sendmsg+0xeb/0x170 __sys_sendmsg+0xb5/0x140 do_syscall_64+0x70/0x140 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e Fixes: 2081fd3445fe ("net: sched: cls_api: add filter counter") Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu Tested-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a347304b2ca1 ("net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: sched: make skip_sw actually skip software

2026-08-19T16:13:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 047f340b36fc550c0fc6a8947fc0a1f8e429e9ab ] TC filters come in 3 variants: - no flag (try to process in hardware, but fallback to software)) - skip_hw (do not process filter by hardware) - skip_sw (do not process filter by software) However skip_sw is implemented so that the skip_sw flag can first be checked, after it has been matched. IMHO it's common when using skip_sw, to use it on all rules. So if all filters in a block is skip_sw filters, then we can bail early, we can thus avoid having to match the filters, just to check for the skip_sw flag. This patch adds a bypass, for when only TC skip_sw rules are used. The bypass is guarded by a static key, to avoid harming other workloads. There are 3 ways that a packet from a skip_sw ruleset, can end up in the kernel path. Although the send packets to a non-existent chain way is only improved a few percents, then I believe it's worth optimizing the trap and fall-though use-cases. +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | Test description | Pre- | Post- | Rel. | | | kpps | kpps | chg. | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | basic forwarding + notrack | 3589.3 | 3587.9 | 1.00x | | switch to eswitch mode | 3081.8 | 3094.7 | 1.00x | | add ingress qdisc | 3042.9 | 3063.6 | 1.01x | | tc forward in hw / skip_sw |37024.7 |37028.4 | 1.00x | | tc forward in sw / skip_hw | 3245.0 | 3245.3 | 1.00x | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | tests with only skip_sw rules below: | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | 1 non-matching rule | 2694.7 | 3058.7 | 1.14x | | 1 n-m rule, match trap | 2611.2 | 3323.1 | 1.27x | | 1 n-m rule, goto non-chain | 2886.8 | 2945.9 | 1.02x | | 5 non-matching rules | 1958.2 | 3061.3 | 1.56x | | 5 n-m rules, match trap | 1911.9 | 3327.0 | 1.74x | | 5 n-m rules, goto non-chain| 2883.1 | 2947.5 | 1.02x | | 10 non-matching rules | 1466.3 | 3062.8 | 2.09x | | 10 n-m rules, match trap | 1444.3 | 3317.9 | 2.30x | | 10 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2883.1 | 2939.5 | 1.02x | | 25 non-matching rules | 838.5 | 3058.9 | 3.65x | | 25 n-m rules, match trap | 824.5 | 3323.0 | 4.03x | | 25 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2875.8 | 2944.7 | 1.02x | | 50 non-matching rules | 488.1 | 3054.7 | 6.26x | | 50 n-m rules, match trap | 484.9 | 3318.5 | 6.84x | | 50 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2884.1 | 2939.7 | 1.02x | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ perf top (25 n-m skip_sw rules - pre patch): 20.39% [kernel] [k] __skb_flow_dissect 16.43% [kernel] [k] rhashtable_jhash2 10.58% [kernel] [k] fl_classify 10.23% [kernel] [k] fl_mask_lookup 4.79% [kernel] [k] memset_orig 2.58% [kernel] [k] tcf_classify 1.47% [kernel] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_rax 1.42% [kernel] [k] __dev_queue_xmit 1.36% [kernel] [k] nft_do_chain 1.21% [kernel] [k] __rcu_read_lock perf top (25 n-m skip_sw rules - post patch): 5.12% [kernel] [k] __dev_queue_xmit 4.77% [kernel] [k] nft_do_chain 3.65% [kernel] [k] dev_gro_receive 3.41% [kernel] [k] check_preemption_disabled 3.14% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_nonlinear 2.88% [kernel] [k] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 2.49% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_xmit 2.15% [kernel] [k] ip_forward 1.95% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_tc_restore_tunnel 1.92% [kernel] [k] vlan_gro_receive Test setup: DUT: Intel Xeon D-1518 (2.20GHz) w/ Nvidia/Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx 2x100G Data rate measured on switch (Extreme X690), and DUT connected as a router on a stick, with pktgen and pktsink as VLANs. Pktgen-dpdk was in range 36.6-37.7 Mpps 64B packets across all tests. Full test data at https://files.fiberby.net/ast/2024/tc_skip_sw/v2_tests/ Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a347304b2ca1 ("net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: sched: cls_api: add filter counter

2026-08-19T16:13:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2081fd3445fec6b9813c20e8b910c2abd6de31cb ] Maintain a count of filters per block. Counter updates are protected by cb_lock, which is also used to protect the offload counters. Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a347304b2ca1 ("net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: sched: cls_api: add skip_sw counter

2026-08-19T16:13:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit f631ef39d81956a2ee69d25039781ceae1162f62 ] Maintain a count of skip_sw filters. This counter is protected by the cb_lock, and is updated at the same time as offloadcnt. Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a347304b2ca1 ("net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter

2026-08-19T16:13:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2a33516f9ef59ad11844d4fc152f889449b5daf3 ] The sch_cake ACK filter parses packets to find the TCP header and filter duplicated ACKs if the flow is backlogged. The parsing code contains a WARN_ON(1) which can be triggered by a malformed IP header in certain cases. Depending on the system configuration, this leads either to either spamming dmesg with warnings, or a panic if panic_on_warn is set. The code already correctly skips the offending packet in the branch that triggers the warning, so the WARN_ON itself doesn't really serve any purpose. So just drop it altogether to avoid the inconvenient side effects. Fixes: 8b7138814f29 ("sch_cake: Add optional ACK filter") Reported-by: Zhiling Zou Reported-by: Ren Wei Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729191417.45665-1-toke@toke.dk Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin