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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hannes@stressinduktion.org
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, tt.rantala@gmail.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com, xemul@parallels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix infinite loop in __skb_recv_datagram()
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:56:00 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130215.135600.962022690327903176.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130215124141.GB20018@order.stressinduktion.org>

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:41:41 +0100

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:07:33PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:16:53 -0800
>> 
>> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>> > 
>> > Tommi was fuzzing with trinity and reported the following problem :
>> > 
>> > commit 3f518bf745 (datagram: Add offset argument to __skb_recv_datagram)
>> > missed that a raw socket receive queue can contain skbs with no payload.
>> > 
>> > We can loop in __skb_recv_datagram() with MSG_PEEK mode, because
>> > wait_for_packet() is not prepared to skip these skbs.
>>  ...
>> > Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
>> > Tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>> 
>> Applied, thanks.
> 
> This issue got a CVE: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/310
> Perhaps it's something that should go to stable?

It's already queued up in my -stable queue.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-15 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-11 19:25 soft lockup at __skb_recv_datagram() when fuzzing with trinity as root in VM Tommi Rantala
2013-02-12  0:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-12  3:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-12  7:42     ` Tommi Rantala
2013-02-12 16:16       ` [PATCH] net: fix infinite loop in __skb_recv_datagram() Eric Dumazet
2013-02-12 16:18         ` Pavel Emelyanov
2013-02-12 21:07         ` David Miller
2013-02-15 12:41           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-15 17:43             ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-15 17:55               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-15 18:56             ` David Miller [this message]

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