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CVE-2026-98380net/sched: reject IDR error pointers when deleting actions

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 11:30 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: reject IDR error pointers when deleting actions tcf_action_delete() drops the reference held by its lookup before calling tcf_idr_delete_index() with the saved action index. An unlocked classifier can remove that action and reserve the same IDR slot with ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) in between. tcf_idr_delete_index() only checks the lookup result for NULL. It therefore treats the reservation as a tc_action and dereferences tcfa_bindcnt. A hardware execution breakpoint was used to schedule the interleaving without changing the kernel source. KASAN reported this decoded trace: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in tca_action_gd+0x5b9/0x1010 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000010 by task poc/150 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002 RIP: tca_action_gd+0x5c0/0x1010: arch_atomic_read at arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23 raw_atomic_read at include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457 atomic_read at include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:33 tcf_idr_delete_index at net/sched/act_api.c:766 tcf_action_delete at net/sched/act_api.c:1859 tcf_del_notify at net/sched/act_api.c:2014 tca_action_gd at net/sched/act_api.c:2064 R13: 0000000000000010 R15: fffffffffffffff0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception R15 contains ERR_PTR(-EBUSY), and adding the tcfa_bindcnt offset produces the address in R13. With the guard applied, the same reproducer returned -ENOENT without a KASAN report or panic. Treat error pointers as absent and return -ENOENT.

CVSS: Not yet scored
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Received
Record last updated: Oct 19, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8 builds before 39b751a210bf61a374afa82749afc7a77a08bf1d; from 0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8 before dd80a7519824b72c8fcfd3cc50cb93f7e2d90923; 0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8 builds before 6bf076258aac4e0af69ef317656c31ce6444d647; 0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8 builds before 6c9f07bf8800171de2cd3f02815cebe1f4d45f2d; from 0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8 before 259caa711b7688365676442e2fdb286b8aceaa80; from 0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8 before 968550a439f64bd1a6c0d88efb92e4f082f84a26; from 0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8 before a9551f26287debe6d8aa6e8841974661065b975f; from 0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8 before c82b797abe668d0b668601a93ba2c0b071a63574	CNA record

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39b751a210bf61a374afa82749afc7a77a08bf1d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd80a7519824b72c8fcfd3cc50cb93f7e2d90923
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bf076258aac4e0af69ef317656c31ce6444d647
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c9f07bf8800171de2cd3f02815cebe1f4d45f2d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/259caa711b7688365676442e2fdb286b8aceaa80
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/968550a439f64bd1a6c0d88efb92e4f082f84a26
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9551f26287debe6d8aa6e8841974661065b975f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c82b797abe668d0b668601a93ba2c0b071a63574

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