[PATCH 1/2] net/sched: sch_taprio: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked

From: Bryam Vargas via B4 Relay

Date: Thu Jun 25 2026 - 05:51:26 EST


From: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>

When taprio's software path peeks a non-work-conserving child qdisc, the
child stashes the peeked skb in its gso_skb; taprio_dequeue_from_txq()
then takes the packet with a direct child ->dequeue() call, which ignores
that stash, orphans the peeked skb and desyncs the child's qlen/backlog.
With a qfq child this re-enters the child on an emptied list and
dereferences NULL, panicking the kernel from softirq on ordinary egress.

Take the packet through qdisc_dequeue_peeked(), as sch_red and sch_sfb
now do. The helper returns the child's stashed skb first and is a no-op
when there is none, so a work-conserving child is unaffected and the
gated path now consumes the skb whose length was charged to the budget.

Fixes: 5a781ccbd19e ("tc: Add support for configuring the taprio scheduler")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sched/sch_taprio.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
index 558987d9b977..299234a5f0fe 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *taprio_dequeue_from_txq(struct Qdisc *sch, int txq,
return NULL;

skip_peek_checks:
- skb = child->ops->dequeue(child);
+ skb = qdisc_dequeue_peeked(child);
if (unlikely(!skb))
return NULL;


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