From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
coreteam@netfilter.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH v4 1/2] netfilter: Terminate rule eval if protocol=IPv6 and ipv6 module is disabled
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:58:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190830205802.GS20113@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190830181354.26279-2-leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> If IPv6 is disabled on boot (ipv6.disable=1), but nft_fib_inet ends up
> dealing with a IPv6 packet, it causes a kernel panic in
> fib6_node_lookup_1(), crashing in bad_page_fault.
>
> The panic is caused by trying to deference a very low address (0x38
> in ppc64le), due to ipv6.fib6_main_tbl = NULL.
> BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000038
>
> The kernel panic was reproduced in a host that disabled IPv6 on boot and
> have to process guest packets (coming from a bridge) using it's ip6tables.
>
> Terminate rule evaluation when packet protocol is IPv6 but the ipv6 module
> is not loaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] netfilter: Terminate rule eval if protocol=IPv6 and ipv6 module is disabled
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:58:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190830205802.GS20113@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190830181354.26279-2-leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> If IPv6 is disabled on boot (ipv6.disable=1), but nft_fib_inet ends up
> dealing with a IPv6 packet, it causes a kernel panic in
> fib6_node_lookup_1(), crashing in bad_page_fault.
>
> The panic is caused by trying to deference a very low address (0x38
> in ppc64le), due to ipv6.fib6_main_tbl = NULL.
> BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000038
>
> The kernel panic was reproduced in a host that disabled IPv6 on boot and
> have to process guest packets (coming from a bridge) using it's ip6tables.
>
> Terminate rule evaluation when packet protocol is IPv6 but the ipv6 module
> is not loaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-30 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-30 18:13 [Bridge] [PATCH v4 0/2] Drop IPV6 packets if IPv6 is disabled on boot Leonardo Bras
2019-08-30 18:13 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-08-30 18:13 ` [Bridge] [PATCH v4 1/2] netfilter: Terminate rule eval if protocol=IPv6 and ipv6 module is disabled Leonardo Bras
2019-08-30 18:13 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-08-30 20:58 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2019-08-30 20:58 ` Florian Westphal
2019-09-03 16:46 ` [Bridge] " Leonardo Bras
2019-09-03 16:46 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-09-03 16:49 ` [Bridge] " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 16:49 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 16:56 ` [Bridge] " Leonardo Bras
2019-09-03 16:56 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-09-03 17:05 ` [Bridge] " Florian Westphal
2019-09-03 17:05 ` Florian Westphal
2019-09-03 19:31 ` [Bridge] " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 19:31 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 19:48 ` [Bridge] " Florian Westphal
2019-09-03 19:48 ` Florian Westphal
2019-09-03 20:19 ` [Bridge] " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 20:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 20:35 ` [Bridge] " Florian Westphal
2019-09-03 20:35 ` Florian Westphal
2019-09-03 20:55 ` [Bridge] " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 20:55 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 20:55 ` [Bridge] " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-09-03 20:55 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-08-30 18:13 ` [Bridge] [PATCH v4 2/2] net: br_netfiler_hooks: Drops IPv6 packets if IPv6 module is not loaded Leonardo Bras
2019-08-30 18:13 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-08-30 20:55 ` [Bridge] " Florian Westphal
2019-08-30 20:55 ` Florian Westphal
2019-08-31 4:42 ` [Bridge] " Leonardo Bras
2019-08-31 4:42 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-08-31 8:43 ` [Bridge] " Florian Westphal
2019-08-31 8:43 ` Florian Westphal
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