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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90099"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:10.858Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:49:50.191Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90099"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90099.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90099"
title: "net/sched: account classifier filter allocations to memcg"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: account classifier filter allocations to memcg\n\nAllocations in the tc classifier *_change() paths (filter objects,\nper-CPU counters, and per-filter aux data) use plain GFP_KERNEL without\n__GFP_ACCOUNT, allowing unprivileged users to pin kernel memory outside\nmemcg charging. The shared tcf_exts_init_ex() action array allocation in\ncls_api.c was also uncharged; this patch closes it along with the\nper-classifier filter-object/percpu/aux allocations that remain\nunaccounted.\n\nAdd GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT to:\n- the shared tcf_exts_init_ex() action array (cls_api.c), common to every\n  filter of every classifier (32 pointers, 256 bytes);\n- the filter-object, per-CPU-counter, and per-filter aux allocations in\n  cls_basic, cls_bpf, cls_cgroup, cls_flow, cls_flower, cls_fw,\n  cls_matchall, cls_route and cls_u32;\n- the u32_init_knode() replace-path knode allocation (cls_u32.c), which\n  allocates the same struct tc_u_knode + sel.keys on every replace of an\n  existing knode and was missed by the create-path-only conversion.\n\nAlso fix the cls_basic error path: basic_change() inserts fnew into the\nIDR before allocating the per-CPU counter. If alloc_percpu() fails the\nerrout path kfree'd fnew without idr_remove, leaving a dangling pointer\nin the IDR. With GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT the percpu alloc becomes failable\non demand (memcg at memory.max), making the dead path attacker-reachable\nand burning the handle permanently. Add the idr_remove on the percpu\nfailure path, matching the basic_set_parms failure-path pattern.\n\nNote: vega@nebusec.ai provided a poc for basic_cls, but it was easy to\nextend to the other classifiers.\n\nConditions to recreate the bug:\n- CONFIG_NET_SCHED, CONFIG_NET_CLS_* (the classifier being used),\n  CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT, CONFIG_MEMCG, CONFIG_USER_NS, CONFIG_NET_NS.\n- Unprivileged user in a fresh user+network namespace (unshare -Urn),\n  or root with CAP_NET_ADMIN.\n- Create a large number of tc filters (e.g. tc filter add dev lo\n  ingress ... \u003cclassifier\u003e ...) while watching a memcg-limited cgroup:\n  system slab grows far faster than memory.current, pinning kernel\n  memory outside memcg charging."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0da974f4f303a6842516b764507e3c0a03f41e5a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5fbb06d4f3d4c509ffe95572384a498bf319e5bf"},{"version":"0da974f4f303a6842516b764507e3c0a03f41e5a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf6006cea193cf065f7a64fc7974247f8112af33"},{"version":"0da974f4f303a6842516b764507e3c0a03f41e5a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68fb30607169c92de57c5c82b6af8a733af1cc09"},{"version":"0da974f4f303a6842516b764507e3c0a03f41e5a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18c68c8f3d3ff0a4def1391021b439c4333a6c71"},{"version":"0da974f4f303a6842516b764507e3c0a03f41e5a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1beb81947eb486716af80db7a584f9e9fef7e003"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.18"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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