In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_codel: Do not call qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog during p…
CVE-2026-74267 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: critical, CVSS score 9.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 6.15
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: sch_codel: Do not call qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog during peek before restoring qlen
Whenever codel drops packets during peek, it calls
qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog. An issue arises because it calls
qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog before it reincrements the qlen. If qlen drops
to zero, but peek returns an skb, the parent's qlen_notify callback will
be executed even though codel still has 1 packet on the queue and, thus,
will mistakenly deactivate the parent's class causing issues like a wild
memory access when qfq has codel as a child:
[ 36.339843][ T370] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xfbd59c0000000024: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
[ 36.340408][ T370] KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000120-0xdead000000000127]
[ 36.340737][ T370] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 370 Comm: tc Not tainted 7.1.0-rc5-00287-g66e13b626592 #87 PREEMPT(full)
[ 36.341113][ T370] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[ 36.341357][ T370] RIP: 0010:qfq_deactivate_agg (include/linux/list.h:1029 (discriminator 2) include/linux/list.h:1043 (discriminator 2) net/sched/sch_qfq.c:1369 (discriminator 2) net/sched/sch_qfq.c:1395 (discriminator 2)) sch_qfq
[ 36.342221][ T370] RSP: 0018:ffff8881100ef370 EFLAGS: 00010216
[ 36.342422][ T370] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881058a9568 RCX: dffffc0000000000
[ 36.342664][ T370] RDX: 1ffff11021064dc3 RSI: ffff888108326e00 RDI: dffffc0000000000
[ 36.342905][ T370] RBP: ffff8881058a8280 R08: dead000000000122 R09: 1bd5a00000000024
[ 36.343140][ T370] R10: fffffbfff2940329 R11: fffffbfff2940329 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 36.343383][ T370] R13: dead000000000100 R14: ffff8881058a9580 R15: ffff8881058a9578
[ 36.343631][ T370] FS: 00007fc04b0ca780(0000) GS:ffff888184fef000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 36.343911][ T370] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 36.344116][ T370] CR2: 0000557c02c02000 CR3: 000000010e0ba000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
[ 36.344359][ T370] PKRU: 55555554
[ 36.344481][ T370] Call Trace:
...
[ 36.345054][ T370] qfq_reset_qdisc (net/sched/sch_qfq.c:357 net/sched/sch_qfq.c:1487) sch_qfq
[ 36.345222][ T370] qdisc_reset (net/sched/sch_generic.c:1057)
[ 36.345503][ T370] __qdisc_destroy (net/sched/sch_generic.c:1096)
[ 36.345677][ T370] qdisc_graft (net/sched/sch_api.c:1062 net/sched/sch_api.c:1053 net/sched/sch_api.c:1159)
[ 36.346335][ T370] tc_get_qdisc (net/sched/sch_api.c:1528 net/sched/sch_api.c:1556)
Fix this by only calling qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog in peek after the
qlen is restored.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/52f1da34c9f4d5bdc1e8b44242da5c7ba8db85f3
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/755108bb7a5083e911294c416cfea605dc75632f
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a05af7f58566682b73578b72ca8e53a268c43bd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/91e0a793a72374c20ab31a40ccec21373e82e973
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb9cfd874ee884117b33e92a002b9a45b48202f4
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4615aa6bb7802944ae790cb4b3ef8c1b7491af3
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8c6dbadf139cb14ea6ed14add6ed6e88504dedd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/eba49fd85995a3851c597fa2d214f8d21736e1d8
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