net/sched: act_ct: don't WARN on benign flow_offload_alloc() failure (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98622
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_ct: don't WARN on benign flow_offload_alloc() failure flow_offload_alloc() returns NULL when the conntrack entry is dying (e.g. raced with a conntrack flush) or when the GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails; both are expected under load and neither is a kernel bug. This path runs from softirq on every committed packet, so with panic_on_warn=1 an unprivileged user can panic the box just by racing a conntrack flush against a `tc ... action ct commit` classifier. Reproduced with a custom repro under QEMU: a small, fixed set of UDP flows through `tc filter ... action ct commit` on lo, raced against threads flooding bare ctnetlink CT_DELETE (flush) requests. Hits WARNING: net/sched/act_ct.c:437 (tcf_ct_flow_table_add(), inlined into tcf_ct_act() in this build) within ~15s on the unpatched kernel; same setup is clean on the patched kernel. The fix itself is behavior-preserving: both branches already did `goto err_alloc` before and after, only the WARN is removed.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 64ff70b80fd403110b67dd9f7184a604fdb0da43 < e8fcf3f08834e939b797311742ee72b1e2a08096 ; affected 64ff70b80fd403110b67dd9f7184a604fdb0da43 < af475f599270e59313552e6c6f3af8507da672b8 ; affected 64ff70b80fd403110b67dd9f7184a604fdb0da43 < 424ba52c0058deeb940d02cba52eb0aeb288db33 ; affected 64ff70b80fd403110b67dd9f7184a604fdb0da43 < d512c484bd93a5f2794aa03c9faeb7bcb82dbd4a ; affected 64ff70b80fd403110b67dd9f7184a604fdb0da43 < d805560ad69cb266d669341ca01e26bffb0d2c67 ; affected 64ff70b80fd403110b67dd9f7184a604fdb0da43 < 00734f3684fcec42c319bedfe68a5d357c720b53
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.7 ; unaffected 0 < 5.7 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD