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From: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH nf] ipvs: read the seq_mask only once on sync
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 2026 14:13:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909111338.44357-1-ja@ssi.bg> (raw)

Sashiko reports for possible heap buffer overflow when
generating sync message for the v0 and v1 message formats.
We should read the seq_mask from cp->flags only once because
another CPU can concurrently set the mask between the two
reads. Note that IPVS does not set the seq_mask anymore
for the ip_vs_ftp.c helper starting from commit 7f1c40757951
("IPVS: make FTP work with full NAT support") (2.6.36+).

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260903004149.1037028-1-pablo%40netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
index 5383aeafb0ae..07303d74e39f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
@@ -543,8 +543,8 @@ static void ip_vs_sync_conn_v0(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_conn *cp,
 	struct ip_vs_sync_conn_v0 *s;
 	struct ip_vs_sync_buff *buff;
 	struct ipvs_master_sync_state *ms;
+	unsigned int seq_mask, len;
 	int id;
-	unsigned int len;
 
 	if (unlikely(cp->af != AF_INET))
 		return;
@@ -564,8 +564,8 @@ static void ip_vs_sync_conn_v0(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_conn *cp,
 	id = select_master_thread_id(ipvs, cp);
 	ms = &ipvs->ms[id];
 	buff = ms->sync_buff;
-	len = (cp->flags & IP_VS_CONN_F_SEQ_MASK) ? FULL_CONN_SIZE :
-		SIMPLE_CONN_SIZE;
+	seq_mask = READ_ONCE(cp->flags) & IP_VS_CONN_F_SEQ_MASK;
+	len = seq_mask ? FULL_CONN_SIZE : SIMPLE_CONN_SIZE;
 	if (buff) {
 		m = (struct ip_vs_sync_mesg_v0 *) buff->mesg;
 		/* Send buffer if it is for v1 */
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ static void ip_vs_sync_conn_v0(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_conn *cp,
 	s->daddr = cp->daddr.ip;
 	s->flags = htons(cp->flags & ~IP_VS_CONN_F_HASHED);
 	s->state = htons(cp->state);
-	if (cp->flags & IP_VS_CONN_F_SEQ_MASK) {
+	if (seq_mask) {
 		struct ip_vs_sync_conn_options *opt =
 			(struct ip_vs_sync_conn_options *)&s[1];
 		memcpy(opt, &cp->sync_conn_opt, sizeof(*opt));
@@ -635,6 +635,7 @@ void ip_vs_sync_conn(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_conn *cp, int pkts)
 	int id;
 	__u8 *p;
 	unsigned int len, pe_name_len, pad;
+	unsigned int seq_mask;
 
 	/* Handle old version of the protocol */
 	if (sysctl_sync_ver(ipvs) == 0) {
@@ -674,7 +675,8 @@ void ip_vs_sync_conn(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_conn *cp, int pkts)
 #endif
 		len = sizeof(struct ip_vs_sync_v4);
 
-	if (cp->flags & IP_VS_CONN_F_SEQ_MASK)
+	seq_mask = READ_ONCE(cp->flags) & IP_VS_CONN_F_SEQ_MASK;
+	if (seq_mask)
 		len += sizeof(struct ip_vs_sync_conn_options) + 2;
 
 	if (cp->pe_data_len)
@@ -744,7 +746,7 @@ void ip_vs_sync_conn(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_conn *cp, int pkts)
 		s->v4.vaddr = cp->vaddr.ip;
 		s->v4.daddr = cp->daddr.ip;
 	}
-	if (cp->flags & IP_VS_CONN_F_SEQ_MASK) {
+	if (seq_mask) {
 		*(p++) = IPVS_OPT_SEQ_DATA;
 		*(p++) = sizeof(struct ip_vs_sync_conn_options);
 		hton_seq(&cp->in_seq, (struct ip_vs_seq *)p);
-- 
2.55.0



             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-09 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-09 11:13 Julian Anastasov [this message]
2026-09-09 14:34 ` [PATCH nf] ipvs: read the seq_mask only once on sync Julian Anastasov

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