CVE-2023-53021 (Moderate severity, published 2025-03-26)
CVSS score: 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: sch_taprio: fix possible use-after-free

syzbot reported a nasty crash [1] in net_tx_action() which
made little sense until we got a repro.

This repro installs a taprio qdisc, but providing an
invalid TCA_RATE attribute.

qdisc_create() has to destroy the just initialized
taprio qdisc, and taprio_destroy() is called.

However, the hrtimer used by taprio had already fired,
therefore advance_sched() called __netif_schedule().

Then net_tx_action was trying to use a destroyed qdisc.

We can not undo the __netif_schedule(), so we must wait
until one cpu serviced the qdisc before we can proceed.

Many thanks to Alexander Potapenko for his help.

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in queued_spin_trylock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:94 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in do_raw_spin_trylock include/linux/spinlock.h:191 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __raw_spin_trylock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:89 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in _raw_spin_trylock+0x92/0xa0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:138
 queued_spin_trylock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:94 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_trylock include/linux/spinlock.h:191 [inline]
 __raw_spin_trylock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:89 [inline]
 _raw_spin_trylock+0x92/0xa0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:138
 spin_trylock include/linux/spinlock.h:359 [inline]
 qdisc_run_begin include/net/sch_generic.h:187 [inline]
 qdisc_run+0xee/0x540 include/net/pkt_sched.h:125
 net_tx_action+0x77c/0x9a0 net/core/dev.c:5086
 __do_softirq+0x1cc/0x7fb kernel/softirq.c:571
 run_ksoftirqd+0x2c/0x50 kernel/softirq.c:934
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x554/0x9f0 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x31b/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:732 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3258 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x814/0x1250 mm/slub.c:4970
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:358 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x346/0xcf0 net/core/skbuff.c:430
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1257 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:953 [inline]
 netlink_ack+0x5f3/0x12b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2436
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x55d/0x6c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2507
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x30/0x40 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6108
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0xf3b/0x1270 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x1288/0x1440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xabc/0xe90 net/socket.c:2482
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a1/0x3f0 net/socket.c:2536
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2565 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2574 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2572 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x367/0x540 net/socket.c:2572
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

CPU: 0 PID: 13 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-syzkaller-47461-gac3859c02d7f #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/22/2022
Mitigation: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.