On Tue, 2017-08-29 at 20:58 +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> The commit below added a call to the ->destroy() callback for all qdiscs
> which failed in their ->init(), but some were not prepared for such
> change and can't handle partially initialized qdisc. HTB is one of them
> and if any error occurs before the qdisc watchdog timer and qdisc work are
> initialized then we can hit either a null ptr deref (timer->base) when
> canceling in ->destroy or lockdep error info about trying to register
> a non-static key and a stack dump. So to fix these two move the watchdog
> timer and workqueue init before anything that can err out.
> To reproduce userspace needs to send broken htb qdisc create request,
> tested with a modified tc (q_htb.c).
> Note that probably this bug goes further back because the default qdisc
> handling always calls ->destroy on init failure too.
>
> Fixes: 87b60cfacf9f ("net_sched: fix error recovery at qdisc creation")
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
> ---
> Always calling qdisc destroy on init failure in the default qdisc handling
> was added in commit 0fbbeb1ba43b. I'm not sure if I should include that
> one as fixes tag.
Well, we probably need to audit init/destroy not only in net/sched, but
other parts of networking stack.
What about the qdisc_skb_head_init(&q->direct_queue) call ?
I am surprised you do not crash in __skb_queue_purge(&q->direct_queue);
