From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec] xfrm: prevent ipcomp scratch buffer race condition
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:55:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131017095502.GD7660@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131016123205.GA9982@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:32:05PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 06:03:34PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > In ipcomp_compress(), sortirq is enabled too early, allowing the
> > per-cpu scratch buffer to be rewritten by ipcomp_decompress()
> > (called on the same CPU in softirq context) between populating
> > the buffer and copying the compressed data to the skb.
>
> Good catch.
>
> > Add similar protection into ipcomp_decompress() as it can be
> > called from process context as well (even if such scenario seems
> > a bit artificial).
>
> I don't think this is possible or otherwise xfrm_input will
> dead-lock.
>
Michal, please incorporate the feedback from Herbert and Eric,
I'll take it into the ipsec tree then. Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-17 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-14 16:03 [PATCH ipsec] xfrm: prevent ipcomp scratch buffer race condition Michal Kubecek
2013-10-15 8:33 ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-15 8:59 ` Fan Du
2013-10-15 9:46 ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-15 20:55 ` Michal Kubecek
2013-10-15 21:40 ` [PATCH ipsec v2] " Michal Kubecek
2013-10-15 22:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-16 12:32 ` [PATCH ipsec] " Herbert Xu
2013-10-17 9:55 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2013-10-17 13:07 ` [PATCH ipsec v3] " Michal Kubecek
2013-10-17 13:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-17 13:39 ` Herbert Xu
2013-10-18 9:25 ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-18 10:54 ` [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: use vmalloc_node() for percpu scratches Eric Dumazet
2013-10-18 12:46 ` Herbert Xu
2013-10-21 14:48 ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-17 11:01 ` [PATCH ipsec] xfrm: prevent ipcomp scratch buffer race condition Michal Kubecek
2013-10-17 11:04 ` Herbert Xu
2013-10-17 13:13 ` Michal Kubecek
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20131017095502.GD7660@secunet.com \
--to=steffen.klassert@secunet.com \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=herbert@gondor.apana.org.au \
--cc=mkubecek@suse.cz \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).