route4_change on a filter change that supplies no routing attribute
at all (no to/from/iif) reaches route4_set_parms with fold set, so the
handle-mismatch check -- which only fires when creating -- is skipped.
nhandle is built as the all-wildcard bucket (0x8000 | 0xFFFF << 16) and
the filter is rekeyed to 0xFFFF8000, so the handle userspace already
stored no longer addresses the filter. (The netlink reply carries the
new handle; what goes stale is the handle the caller holds.)
The rekey actually misclassifies the packets. The new handle's from_hash
is the wildcard chain (route4_hash_wild), whose filters route4_classify
applies without any id/iif comparison, and its bucket (256) is reached
by every packet through the h < 256 restart. A filter that matched only
a specific realm therefore becomes an unconditional catch-all that applies
its classid and actions to all otherwise-unmatched traffic.
Reject a change that would rekey the filter this way, with the
routing-attributes-required error. A change that names at least one of
to/from/iif, and an in-place replace that keeps the routing identity via
a supplied attribute, are unaffected. A change of a filter that already
sits at the wildcard handle is a metadata-only update and remains valid,
so only a change that actually moves the handle is rejected.
This is a follow-up to commit 41e85e54e5 ("net/sched: cls_route: Fix
in-place replace"); this patch closes the no-routing-attribute variant
that the parent series did not address.
Conditions to recreate the bug:
tc qdisc add dev lo clsact
tc filter add dev lo ingress protocol ip pref 100 route from 1 to 1
tc filter change dev lo ingress protocol ip pref 100 handle 0x10001 \
route classid 1:2
tc filter show dev lo ingress # handle became 0xffff8000; iproute2's
# stored 0x10001 no longer addresses it
A change of a filter already at the wildcard handle, e.g. one created by
"tc filter add dev lo ingress protocol ip pref 100 route classid 1:1"
(iproute2 defaults the handle to 0xffff8000), stays a valid metadata-only
update.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/20260907192133.2639067-1-victor@mojatatu.com
Reviewed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/QDISC-0JB3.v1.20260929143022@mojatatu.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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