# CVE-2026-74382: net/sched: cls\_bpf: prevent unbounded recursion in offload rollback

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-15 · Updated: 2026-08-17

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.15

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_bpf: prevent unbounded recursion in offload rollback Quan Sun reported [1] a stack overflow in cls_bpf_offload_cmd(). Reproducer on netdevsim: add a skip_sw cls_bpf filter, set the bpf_tc_accept debugfs knob to 0, then `tc filter replace`. The replace calls tc_setup_cb_replace() which fails. cls_bpf_offload_cmd() then swaps prog/oldprog and recursively calls itself to roll back. But bpf_tc_accept=0 makes the rollback fail too, which triggers yet another rollback frame with the same arguments, and so on until the stack is exhausted. bpf_tc_accept is just a convenient knob for the reproducer. Any driver whose tc_setup_cb_replace() fails twice in a row can hit the same loop, so this is not a netdevsim-only issue. Two ways to fix it: 1) Have the rollback call tc_setup_cb_add() on oldprog instead of re-entering cls_bpf_offload_cmd(). 2) Mark the rollback frame with a flag and skip a second-level rollback from inside it. Go with (2). It is the smaller change and keeps the original behaviour: the rollback still goes through tc_setup_cb_replace(), so the driver gets one real chance to restore its state. If that attempt also fails, we just return the original error instead of recursing. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ce5a6005-3c5e-4696-9e05-eba9461dc860@std.uestc.edu.cn/T/#u

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a018f208ab7512380bd4cf670064d48cba00a1b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33373e1f378a501bc51aa73312f74295c84e3101
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2d3b7bab3748c811dc5750ce9a8d62bc7f90ed7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a76953c3ed043797e81529b9395e9ca6f4c7609
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1387f252a242a51bfbb6eace29c8f8db21b457da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10753da2d659dd425a6e620f47f86852d604f67f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fa6fb5d771c992ebedbfa7331c6bcc6f33f89b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27db54b90bcc7c37867fe664107fa25ea6a116e4

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