Patch "net/sched: cls_matchall: fix crash when used with classful qdisc" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/sched: cls_matchall: fix crash when used with classful qdisc

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-sched-cls_matchall-fix-crash-when-used-with-classful-qdisc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Oct 10 16:09:22 CEST 2017
From: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:02:21 +0200
Subject: net/sched: cls_matchall: fix crash when used with classful qdisc

From: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>


[ Upstream commit 3ff4cbec87da48b0ec1f7b6196607b034de0c680 ]

this script, edited from Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control guide

tc q a dev en0 root handle 1: htb default a
tc c a dev en0 parent 1:  classid 1:1 htb rate 6mbit burst 15k
tc c a dev en0 parent 1:1 classid 1:a htb rate 5mbit ceil 6mbit burst 15k
tc c a dev en0 parent 1:1 classid 1:b htb rate 1mbit ceil 6mbit burst 15k
tc f a dev en0 parent 1:0 prio 1 $clsname $clsargs classid 1:b
ping $address -c1
tc -s c s dev en0

classifies traffic to 1:b or 1:a, depending on whether the packet matches
or not the pattern $clsargs of filter $clsname. However, when $clsname is
'matchall', a systematic crash can be observed in htb_classify(). HTB and
classful qdiscs don't assign initial value to struct tcf_result, but then
they expect it to contain valid values after filters have been run. Thus,
current 'matchall' ignores the TCA_MATCHALL_CLASSID attribute, configured
by user, and makes HTB (and classful qdiscs) dereference random pointers.

By assigning head->res to *res in mall_classify(), before the actions are
invoked, we fix this crash and enable TCA_MATCHALL_CLASSID functionality,
that had no effect on 'matchall' classifier since its first introduction.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1460213
Reported-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Fixes: b87f7936a932 ("net/sched: introduce Match-all classifier")
Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sched/cls_matchall.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/sched/cls_matchall.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_matchall.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static int mall_classify(struct sk_buff
 	if (tc_skip_sw(head->flags))
 		return -1;
 
+	*res = head->res;
 	return tcf_exts_exec(skb, &head->exts, res);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dcaratti@redhat.com are

queue-4.9/net-sched-cls_matchall-fix-crash-when-used-with-classful-qdisc.patch