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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	casteyde.christian@free.fr,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in __alloc_skb
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:14:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305047682.2758.1.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105101133440.2611@router.home>

Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 11:39 -0500, Christoph Lameter a écrit :

> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC
> 	if (illegal_page_alloc-address(object))
> 		goto redo;
> #endif
> 
> before the cmpxchg should do the trick.
> 

Again, it wont work...

You can have an IRQ right after the check and before cmpxchg

This interrupt can allocate this block of memory, free it, and unmap
page from memory.

cmpxchg() reads unmapped memory -> BUG




  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-10 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-33502-10286@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2011-04-18 22:38 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in __alloc_skb Andrew Morton
2011-04-19  2:51   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-19  3:09     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-19  3:20       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-19 17:10         ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-19 20:17           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-19 21:18             ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20  5:04               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20 14:04                 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20  5:56             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-20  6:04               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20  7:45                 ` casteyde.christian
2011-04-20  7:49                   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-20  8:09                     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20  8:21                       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-20  9:07                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20 10:02                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20 14:05                           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20 14:26                             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20 14:42                               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20 15:01                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20 15:15                                   ` Vegard Nossum
2011-04-20 15:34                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20 15:17                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20 15:30                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20 19:36                                   ` Christian Casteyde
2011-04-20 19:55                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-20 20:32                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-05  6:18                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-05  6:22                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-05  6:50                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-05 18:40                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-05 18:48                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-05 19:05                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-09 19:44                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-09 20:04                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-09 20:06                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-10  8:43                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10  9:47                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-10 10:03                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10 10:10                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-10 10:03                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-10 10:17                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10 10:19                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-10 11:52                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10 12:24                                               ` Vegard Nossum
2011-05-10 16:39                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-10 17:14                                                   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-05-10 17:30                                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-10 17:43                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-10 18:05                                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10 18:28                                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-10 19:05                                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-10 19:32                                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10 19:38                                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-10 20:06                                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10 20:33                                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-10 20:45                                                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10 21:22                                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-11  3:12                                                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-12 14:36                                                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-13 21:15                                                                           ` [PATCH] slub: Make CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC work with new fastpath Christoph Lameter
2011-05-13 21:26                                                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-10 18:07                                                         ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in __alloc_skb Christoph Lameter
2011-05-10 16:33                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-19 17:09       ` Christoph Lameter

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