CVE-2022-48644 (published 2024-04-28)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: taprio: avoid disabling offload when it was never enabled

In an incredibly strange API design decision, qdisc->destroy() gets
called even if qdisc->init() never succeeded, not exclusively since
commit 87b60cfacf9f ("net_sched: fix error recovery at qdisc creation"),
but apparently also earlier (in the case of qdisc_create_dflt()).

The taprio qdisc does not fully acknowledge this when it attempts full
offload, because it starts off with q->flags = TAPRIO_FLAGS_INVALID in
taprio_init(), then it replaces q->flags with TCA_TAPRIO_ATTR_FLAGS
parsed from netlink (in taprio_change(), tail called from taprio_init()).

But in taprio_destroy(), we call taprio_disable_offload(), and this
determines what to do based on FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED(q->flags).

But looking at the implementation of FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED()
(a bitwise check of bit 1 in q->flags), it is invalid to call this macro
on q->flags when it contains TAPRIO_FLAGS_INVALID, because that is set
to U32_MAX, and therefore FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED() will return true on
an invalid set of flags.

As a result, it is possible to crash the kernel if user space forces an
error between setting q->flags = TAPRIO_FLAGS_INVALID, and the calling
of taprio_enable_offload(). This is because drivers do not expect the
offload to be disabled when it was never enabled.

The error that we force here is to attach taprio as a non-root qdisc,
but instead as child of an mqprio root qdisc:

$ tc qdisc add dev swp0 root handle 1: \
	mqprio num_tc 8 map 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 \
	queues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 1@4 1@5 1@6 1@7 hw 0
$ tc qdisc replace dev swp0 parent 1:1 \
	taprio num_tc 8 map 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 \
	queues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 1@4 1@5 1@6 1@7 base-time 0 \
	sched-entry S 0x7f 990000 sched-entry S 0x80 100000 \
	flags 0x0 clockid CLOCK_TAI
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffffffffff8
[fffffffffffffff8] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Call trace:
 taprio_dump+0x27c/0x310
 vsc9959_port_setup_tc+0x1f4/0x460
 felix_port_setup_tc+0x24/0x3c
 dsa_slave_setup_tc+0x54/0x27c
 taprio_disable_offload.isra.0+0x58/0xe0
 taprio_destroy+0x80/0x104
 qdisc_create+0x240/0x470
 tc_modify_qdisc+0x1fc/0x6b0
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x12c/0x390
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x5c/0x130
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x2c

Fix this by keeping track of the operations we made, and undo the
offload only if we actually did it.

I've added "bool offloaded" inside a 4 byte hole between "int clockid"
and "atomic64_t picos_per_byte". Now the first cache line looks like
below:

$ pahole -C taprio_sched net/sched/sch_taprio.o
struct taprio_sched {
        struct Qdisc * *           qdiscs;               /*     0     8 */
        struct Qdisc *             root;                 /*     8     8 */
        u32                        flags;                /*    16     4 */
        enum tk_offsets            tk_offset;            /*    20     4 */
        int                        clockid;              /*    24     4 */
        bool                       offloaded;            /*    28     1 */

        /* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */

        atomic64_t                 picos_per_byte;       /*    32     0 */

        /* XXX 8 bytes hole, try to pack */

        spinlock_t                 current_entry_lock;   /*    40     0 */

        /* XXX 8 bytes hole, try to pack */

        struct sched_entry *       current_entry;        /*    48     8 */
        struct sched_gate_list *   oper_sched;           /*    56     8 */
        /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
Severity: MEDIUM (CVSS 3.1 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Weakness: CWE-476
Affected vendors: linux
Affected products: linux_kernel