CVE-2026-98380

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: reject IDR error pointers when deleting actions

tcf_action_delete() drops the reference held by its lookup before calling
tcf_idr_delete_index() with the saved action index.  An unlocked
classifier can remove that action and reserve the same IDR slot with
ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) in between.

tcf_idr_delete_index() only checks the lookup result for NULL.  It
therefore treats the reservation as a tc_action and dereferences
tcfa_bindcnt.  A hardware execution breakpoint was used to schedule the
interleaving without changing the kernel source.  KASAN reported this
decoded trace:

  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in tca_action_gd+0x5b9/0x1010
  Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000010 by task poc/150
  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002
  RIP: tca_action_gd+0x5c0/0x1010:
    arch_atomic_read at arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23
    raw_atomic_read at include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457
    atomic_read at include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:33
    tcf_idr_delete_index at net/sched/act_api.c:766
    tcf_action_delete at net/sched/act_api.c:1859
    tcf_del_notify at net/sched/act_api.c:2014
    tca_action_gd at net/sched/act_api.c:2064
  R13: 0000000000000010 R15: fffffffffffffff0
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

R15 contains ERR_PTR(-EBUSY), and adding the tcfa_bindcnt offset produces
the address in R13.  With the guard applied, the same reproducer returned
-ENOENT without a KASAN report or panic.  Treat error pointers as absent
and return -ENOENT.