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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37953"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-20T16:01:47.818Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:18:17.815Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-37953"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37953.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37953"
title: "sch_htb: make htb_deactivate() idempotent"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsch_htb: make htb_deactivate() idempotent\n\nAlan reported a NULL pointer dereference in htb_next_rb_node()\nafter we made htb_qlen_notify() idempotent.\n\nIt turns out in the following case it introduced some regression:\n\nhtb_dequeue_tree():\n  |-\u003e fq_codel_dequeue()\n    |-\u003e qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()\n      |-\u003e htb_qlen_notify()\n        |-\u003e htb_deactivate()\n  |-\u003e htb_next_rb_node()\n  |-\u003e htb_deactivate()\n\nFor htb_next_rb_node(), after calling the 1st htb_deactivate(), the\nclprio[prio]-\u003eptr could be already set to  NULL, which means\nhtb_next_rb_node() is vulnerable here.\n\nFor htb_deactivate(), although we checked qlen before calling it, in\ncase of qlen==0 after qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog(), we may call it again\nwhich triggers the warning inside.\n\nTo fix the issues here, we need to:\n\n1) Make htb_deactivate() idempotent, that is, simply return if we\n   already call it before.\n2) Make htb_next_rb_node() safe against ptr==NULL.\n\nMany thanks to Alan for testing and for the reproducer."
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