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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48644"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-28T13:00:07.584Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:44:21.733Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48644"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48644.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48644"
title: "net/sched: taprio: avoid disabling offload when it was never enabled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: taprio: avoid disabling offload when it was never enabled\n\nIn an incredibly strange API design decision, qdisc-\u003edestroy() gets\ncalled even if qdisc-\u003einit() never succeeded, not exclusively since\ncommit 87b60cfacf9f (\"net_sched: fix error recovery at qdisc creation\"),\nbut apparently also earlier (in the case of qdisc_create_dflt()).\n\nThe taprio qdisc does not fully acknowledge this when it attempts full\noffload, because it starts off with q-\u003eflags = TAPRIO_FLAGS_INVALID in\ntaprio_init(), then it replaces q-\u003eflags with TCA_TAPRIO_ATTR_FLAGS\nparsed from netlink (in taprio_change(), tail called from taprio_init()).\n\nBut in taprio_destroy(), we call taprio_disable_offload(), and this\ndetermines what to do based on FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED(q-\u003eflags).\n\nBut looking at the implementation of FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED()\n(a bitwise check of bit 1 in q-\u003eflags), it is invalid to call this macro\non q-\u003eflags when it contains TAPRIO_FLAGS_INVALID, because that is set\nto U32_MAX, and therefore FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED() will return true on\nan invalid set of flags.\n\nAs a result, it is possible to crash the kernel if user space forces an\nerror between setting q-\u003eflags = TAPRIO_FLAGS_INVALID, and the calling\nof taprio_enable_offload(). This is because drivers do not expect the\noffload to be disabled when it was never enabled.\n\nThe error that we force here is to attach taprio as a non-root qdisc,\nbut instead as child of an mqprio root qdisc:\n\n$ tc qdisc add dev swp0 root handle 1: \\\n\tmqprio num_tc 8 map 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 \\\n\tqueues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 1@4 1@5 1@6 1@7 hw 0\n$ tc qdisc replace dev swp0 parent 1:1 \\\n\ttaprio num_tc 8 map 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 \\\n\tqueues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 1@4 1@5 1@6 1@7 base-time 0 \\\n\tsched-entry S 0x7f 990000 sched-entry S 0x80 100000 \\\n\tflags 0x0 clockid CLOCK_TAI\nUnable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffffffffff8\n[fffffffffffffff8] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000\nInternal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\nCall trace:\n taprio_dump+0x27c/0x310\n vsc9959_port_setup_tc+0x1f4/0x460\n felix_port_setup_tc+0x24/0x3c\n dsa_slave_setup_tc+0x54/0x27c\n taprio_disable_offload.isra.0+0x58/0xe0\n taprio_destroy+0x80/0x104\n qdisc_create+0x240/0x470\n tc_modify_qdisc+0x1fc/0x6b0\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x12c/0x390\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x5c/0x130\n rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x2c\n\nFix this by keeping track of the operations we made, and undo the\noffload only if we actually did it.\n\nI've added \"bool offloaded\" inside a 4 byte hole between \"int clockid\"\nand \"atomic64_t picos_per_byte\". Now the first cache line looks like\nbelow:\n\n$ pahole -C taprio_sched net/sched/sch_taprio.o\nstruct taprio_sched {\n        struct Qdisc * *           qdiscs;               /*     0     8 */\n        struct Qdisc *             root;                 /*     8     8 */\n        u32                        flags;                /*    16     4 */\n        enum tk_offsets            tk_offset;            /*    20     4 */\n        int                        clockid;              /*    24     4 */\n        bool                       offloaded;            /*    28     1 */\n\n        /* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */\n\n        atomic64_t                 picos_per_byte;       /*    32     0 */\n\n        /* XXX 8 bytes hole, try to pack */\n\n        spinlock_t                 current_entry_lock;   /*    40     0 */\n\n        /* XXX 8 bytes hole, try to pack */\n\n        struct sched_entry *       current_entry;        /*    48     8 */\n        struct sched_gate_list *   oper_sched;           /*    56     8 */\n        /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9c66d15646760eb8982242b4531c4d4fd36118fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d12a1eb07003e597077329767c6aa86a7e972c76"},{"version":"9c66d15646760eb8982242b4531c4d4fd36118fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"586def6ebed195f3594a4884f7c5334d0e1ad1bb"},{"version":"9c66d15646760eb8982242b4531c4d4fd36118fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f58e43184226e5e9662088ccf1389e424a3a4cbd"},{"version":"9c66d15646760eb8982242b4531c4d4fd36118fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7c9c7eb305ab8b4e93e4e4e1b78d8cfcbc26323"},{"version":"9c66d15646760eb8982242b4531c4d4fd36118fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db46e3a88a09c5cf7e505664d01da7238cd56c92"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.4.215","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.146","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.71","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.19.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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