When tcf_block_get() fails in sfb_init(), q->qdisc is still a NULL pointer which leads to a crash in sfb_destroy().
Linus suggested three solutions for this problem, the simplest fix is just moving the noop_qdisc assignment before tcf_block_get() so that qdisc_put() would become a nop. Fixes: 6529eaba33f0 ("net: sched: introduce tcf block infractructure") Reported-by: syzbot+d5870a903591faaca...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> Cc: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> --- net/sched/sch_sfb.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sched/sch_sfb.c b/net/sched/sch_sfb.c index 1dff8506a715..db1c8eb521a2 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_sfb.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_sfb.c @@ -552,11 +552,11 @@ static int sfb_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt, struct sfb_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch); int err; + q->qdisc = &noop_qdisc; + err = tcf_block_get(&q->block, &q->filter_list, sch, extack); if (err) return err; - - q->qdisc = &noop_qdisc; return sfb_change(sch, opt, extack); } -- 2.21.0