Re: ip6_dst_lookup_tail oops

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 07:48:09AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
 > > Now I've hit it with rt->n = 2000000000000010. So I'm starting to
 > > think this is getting passed in directly from userspace somehow, as
 > > these values look like the output of my 'set a few random bits' routine
 > > that sometimes gets called for params.
 > > 
 > > I'm having trouble mapping a corrupt sendmsg parameter to a messed up rt->n though.
 > > 
 > Well, neighbor table entries for ipv6 get added over rtnetlink,

ah, that's helpful. That explains why just fuzzing sendmsg alone won't hit this.

 > but it seems you
 > would have to be able to memory map the socket to get a pointer like that into
 > place.  Trinity doesn't record the syscalls it makes does it?  That might be
 > helpful in tracking this down.

It does, but when it takes two days to hit something like this, you end up
with gigabytes of data to look through.

	Dave