In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: schtaprio: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdiscdequeuepeeked When taprio's software path peeks a non-work-conserving child qdisc, the child stashes the peeked skb in its gsoskb; tapriodequeuefromtxq() then takes the packet with a direct child ->dequeue() call, which ignores that stash, orphans the peeked skb and desyncs the child's qlen/backlog. With a qfq child this re-enters the child on an emptied list and dereferences NULL, panicking the kernel from softirq on ordinary egress. Take the packet through qdiscdequeuepeeked(), as schred and sch_sfb now do. The helper returns the child's stashed skb first and is a no-op when there is none, so a work-conserving child is unaffected and the gated path now consumes the skb whose length was charged to the budget.