CVE-2026-72390

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: sch_teql: Introduce slaves_lock to avoid race condition and UAF

The teql master->slaves singly linked list is not protected against multiple writes. It can be moded concurently from teql_master_xmit(), teql_dequeue(), teql_init() and teql_destroy() without holding any list lock or RCU protection.

zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com has demonstrated that the qdisc is freed after an RCU grace period, but teql_master_xmit() running on another CPU can still hold a stale pointer into the list, resulting in a slab-use-after-free:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in teql_master_xmit+0xf0f/0x16b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888013fb0440 by task poc/332 Freed 512-byte region [ffff888013fb0400, ffff888013fb0600) (kmalloc-512)

The fix? Add a per-master slaves_lock spinlock that serializes all mutations of master->slaves and the NEXT_SLAVE() links in teql_destroy() and teql_qdisc_init(). teql_master_xmit() also takes the same slaves_lock around those updates. Annotate master->slaves and the per-slave ->next pointer with __rcu and use the appropriate RCU accessors everywhere they are touched: rcu_assign_pointer() on the writer side (under slaves_lock), rcu_dereference_protected() for the writer-side loads (also under slaves_lock), rcu_dereference_bh() for the loads in teql_master_xmit() and rtnl_dereference() for the loads in teql_master_open()/teql_master_mtu(), which run under RTNL. Pair this with rcu_read_lock_bh()/rcu_read_unlock_bh() around the list traversal in teql_master_xmit(), so that readers either observe a fully linked list or are deferred until the in-flight mutation completes. The two early-return paths in teql_master_xmit() are updated to release the RCU-bh read-side critical section before returning, since leaving it held would disable BH on that CPU for good.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c67781254c574ae7fa75e881239a78473bdf42
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11402e6e18e96df615cbcc58157818dd604b23ff
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/735567bde7401f82b064f9f107b52ee1bf84ed8c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b7d05cbaa60108642402100efa6aa288dd33023
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b26aa9d993537a4c3167d8ceead3b7c69c3a0aac
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5b811fe793166aecc59b085c1b7c31262ef2316