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Aside from being innapropriate behavior, this may lead\nto an unbounded addition of metadata to the metalist which might cause an\nout of bounds error when running the encode op:\n\n[  138.423369][    C1] ==================================================================\n[  138.424317][    C1] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)\n[  138.424906][    C1] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880077f4ffe by task ife_out_out_bou/255\n[  138.425778][    C1] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 255 Comm: ife_out_out_bou Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1-00169-gfbdfa8da05b6 #624 PREEMPT(full)\n[  138.425795][    C1] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011\n[  138.425800][    C1] Call Trace:\n[  138.425804][    C1]  <IRQ>\n[  138.425808][    C1]  dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)\n[  138.425828][    C1]  print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482)\n[  138.425839][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)\n[  138.425844][    C1]  ? __virt_addr_valid (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:95 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:975 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/mmzone.h:2207 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:54 (discriminator 1))\n[  138.425853][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)\n[  138.425859][    C1]  kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:221 mm/kasan/report.c:597)\n[  138.425868][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)\n[  138.425878][    C1]  kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:186 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/generic.c:200 (discriminator 1))\n[  138.425884][    C1]  __asan_memset (mm/kasan/shadow.c:84 (discriminator 2))\n[  138.425889][    C1]  ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168)\n[  138.425893][    C1]  ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:171)\n[  138.425898][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)\n[  138.425903][    C1]  ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:57)\n[  138.425910][    C1]  ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:114)\n[  138.425916][    C1]  ? __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105 (discriminator 3))\n[  138.425921][    C1]  ? __pfx_ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:45)\n[  138.425927][    C1]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)\n[  138.425931][    C1]  tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:847 net/sched/act_ife.c:879)\n\nTo solve this issue, fix the replace behavior by adding the metalist to\nthe ife rcu data structure.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-03-25T10:27:57.986+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-15T01:14:32.734+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n                    \"product\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"defaultStatus\": \"unaffected\",\n                    \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n                    \"programFiles\": [\n                        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