title: sch_htb: fix refcount leak in htb_parent_to_leaf_offload
description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sch_htb: fix refcount leak in htb_parent_to_leaf_offload
The commit ae81feb7338c ("sch_htb: fix null pointer dereference
on a null new_q") fixes a NULL pointer dereference bug, but it
is not correct.
Because htb_graft_helper properly handles the case when new_q
is NULL, and after the previous patch by skipping this call
which creates an inconsistency : dev_queue->qdisc will still
point to the old qdisc, but cl->parent->leaf.q will point to
the new one (which will be noop_qdisc, because new_q was NULL).
The code is based on an assumption that these two pointers are
the same, so it can lead to refcount leaks.
The correct fix is to add a NULL pointer check to protect
qdisc_refcount_inc inside htb_parent_to_leaf_offload.
affected:
{
product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: unaffected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions:
version: ae81feb7338c, lessThan: 2411c02d0389, status: affected, versionType: git
version: ae81feb7338c, lessThan: 944d671d5faa, status: affected, versionType: git
}
{
product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: affected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions:
version: 5.12, status: affected
version: 0, lessThan: 5.12, status: unaffected, versionType: custom
version: 5.12.10, lessThanOrEqual: 5.12.*, status: unaffected, versionType: custom
version: 5.13, lessThanOrEqual: *, status: unaffected, versionType: original_commit_for_fix
}
