From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: security@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, toke@toke.dk,
xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, cake@lists.bufferbloat.net,
bestswngs@gmail.com
Subject: [Cake] Re: [PATCH net v7 1/2] net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:16:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPpSM+S1-c68WsY3KYQp4R3kC+p+eREdJP0Qas9Q68MiA9Y3AA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251127153644.55ef4796@kernel.org>
Thanks for the reminder. The conflict has been resolved in v8.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:45:12 -0700 Xiang Mei wrote:
> > In cake_drop(), qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() is used to update the qlen
> > and backlog of the qdisc hierarchy. Its caller, cake_enqueue(), assumes
> > that the parent qdisc will enqueue the current packet. However, this
> > assumption breaks when cake_enqueue() returns NET_XMIT_CN: the parent
> > qdisc stops enqueuing current packet, leaving the tree qlen/backlog
> > accounting inconsistent. This mismatch can lead to a NULL dereference
> > (e.g., when the parent Qdisc is qfq_qdisc).
>
> This series does not apply, please rebase on netdev/net/main.
> --
> pw-bot: cr
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-28 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-26 19:45 [Cake] " Xiang Mei
2025-11-26 19:45 ` [Cake] [PATCH net v7 2/2] selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets Xiang Mei
2025-11-27 9:14 ` [Cake] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2025-11-27 18:22 ` Cong Wang
2025-11-27 9:14 ` [Cake] Re: [PATCH net v7 1/2] net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2025-11-27 18:21 ` Cong Wang
2025-11-27 23:36 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-28 0:16 ` Xiang Mei [this message]
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