From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: cgroup: fix access the unallocated memory in netprio cgroup Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:59:04 +0200 Message-ID: <1341997144.3265.7263.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1341995406-12719-1-git-send-email-gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, lizefan@huawei.com, tj@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, Eric Dumazet To: Gao feng Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1341995406-12719-1-git-send-email-gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 16:30 +0800, Gao feng wrote: > there are some out of bound accesses in netprio cgroup. > > now before accessing the dev->priomap.priomap array,we only check > if the dev->priomap exist.and because we don't want to see > additional bound checkings in fast path, so we should make sure > that dev->priomap is null or array size of dev->priomap.priomap > is equal to max_prioidx + 1; > > and it's not needed to call extend_netdev_tabel in write_priomap, > we can only allocate the net device's priomap which we change through > net_prio.ifpriomap. > > this patch add a return value for update_netdev_tables & extend_netdev_table, > so when new_priomap is allocated failed,write_priomap will stop to access > the priomap,and return -ENOMEM back to the userspace to tell the user > what happend. > > Change From v2: > 1. protect extend_netdev_table by RTNL. > 2. when extend_netdev_table failed,call dev_put to reduce device's refcount. > > Signed-off-by: Gao feng > Cc: Neil Horman > Cc: Eric Dumazet > --- > Acked-by: Eric Dumazet