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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, jhs@mojatatu.com
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] net_sched: Remove broken tc actions
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 06:40:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvrmu909.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)


While auditing the code to make certain it would be safe to enable the
user namespace root to use tc actions I stumbled on the strange fact
that two of the tc modules in the kernel have been broken for more
years than I care to think about.

In particular neither of these two modules implements the tc_action_ops
lookup method.  Which means that in practice neither RTM_GETACTION nor
RTM_DELACTION work.  And with RTM_DELACTION broken that looks like a
permanent leak of kernel memory to me.

A leak I am not happy at root having and certainly not something I want
to allow unprivileged users access to.

On the premise that 5+ years is too long to wait for someone to notice,
complain and get this code fixed let's just remove these broken tc
modules.

Eric W. Biederman (2):
      net_sched: Remove broken act_skbedit
      net_sched: Remove broken act_simple

 include/net/tc_act/tc_defact.h         |   14 --
 include/net/tc_act/tc_skbedit.h        |   36 -----
 include/uapi/linux/tc_act/Kbuild       |    2 -
 include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_defact.h  |   19 ---
 include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_skbedit.h |   46 -------
 net/sched/Kconfig                      |   25 ----
 net/sched/Makefile                     |    2 -
 net/sched/act_simple.c                 |  225 --------------------------------
 net/sched/act_skbedit.c                |  224 -------------------------------
 9 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 593 deletions(-)

             reply	other threads:[~2013-10-27 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-27 13:40 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-10-27 13:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] net_sched: Remove broken act_skbedit Eric W. Biederman
2013-10-27 13:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] net_sched: Remove broken act_simple Eric W. Biederman
2013-10-27 16:58 ` [PATCH 0/2] net_sched: Remove broken tc actions Jamal Hadi Salim
2013-10-27 20:37   ` Alexander Duyck
2013-10-28 22:57     ` Jamal Hadi Salim

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