CVE-2026-90099

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

net/sched: account classifier filter allocations to memcg

Allocations in the tc classifier *_change() paths (filter objects, per-CPU counters, and per-filter aux data) use plain GFP_KERNEL without __GFP_ACCOUNT, allowing unprivileged users to pin kernel memory outside memcg charging. The shared tcf_exts_init_ex() action array allocation in cls_api.c was also uncharged; this patch closes it along with the per-classifier filter-object/percpu/aux allocations that remain unaccounted.

Add GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT to:

• the shared tcf_exts_init_ex() action array (cls_api.c), common to every filter of every classifier (32 pointers, 256 bytes);
• the filter-object, per-CPU-counter, and per-filter aux allocations in cls_basic, cls_bpf, cls_cgroup, cls_flow, cls_flower, cls_fw, cls_matchall, cls_route and cls_u32;
• the u32_init_knode() replace-path knode allocation (cls_u32.c), which allocates the same struct tc_u_knode + sel.keys on every replace of an existing knode and was missed by the create-path-only conversion.

Also fix the cls_basic error path: basic_change() inserts fnew into the IDR before allocating the per-CPU counter. If alloc_percpu() fails the errout path kfreed fnew without idr_remove, leaving a dangling pointer in the IDR. With GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT the percpu alloc becomes failable on demand (memcg at memory.max), making the dead path attacker-reachable and burning the handle permanently. Add the idr_remove on the percpu failure path, matching the basic_set_parms failure-path pattern.

Note: vega@nebusec.ai provided a poc for basic_cls, but it was easy to extend to the other classifiers.

Conditions to recreate the bug:

• CONFIG_NET_SCHED, CONFIG_NET_CLS_* (the classifier being used), CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT, CONFIG_MEMCG, CONFIG_USER_NS, CONFIG_NET_NS.
• Unprivileged user in a fresh user+network namespace (unshare -Urn), or root with CAP_NET_ADMIN.
• Create a large number of tc filters (e.g. tc filter add dev lo ingress … …) while watching a memcg-limited cgroup: system slab grows far faster than memory.current, pinning kernel memory outside memcg charging.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18c68c8f3d3ff0a4def1391021b439c4333a6c71
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1beb81947eb486716af80db7a584f9e9fef7e003