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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	dborkman@redhat.com, luto@amacapital.net,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kaber@trash.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netlink mmap tx security?
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:26:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141217162646.GB28766@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1418774579.9773.69.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 12/16/14 at 04:02pm, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 17:58 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > +		__skb_put(skb, nm_len);
> > +		memcpy(skb->data, (void *)hdr + NL_MMAP_HDRLEN, nm_len);
> > +		netlink_set_status(hdr, NL_MMAP_STATUS_UNUSED);
> >  
> 
> Not related to this patch, but it looks like netlink_set_status()
> barrier is wrong ?
> 
> It seems we need smp_wmb() after the memcpy() and before the
> hdr->nm_status = status; 

Yes, definitely wrong as-is. I'll send a patch. For the particular
case we'd need a smp_rmb() after the memcpy() to complete the loads.
The skb destructor needs a smp_wmb() after setting nm_len. We could
get away with a smp_wmb() first thing in netlink_set_status() with
the code as-is but smp_mb() might be the less fragile thing to do.
Objections?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-17 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CALCETrWsCqy7KEKPTOeHjrO1c2JE1E_seO_J+yA=sYFhS11NXQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-12 21:08 ` Netlink mmap tx security? Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-11 22:29   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-11 23:09     ` David Miller
2014-10-14 19:19     ` David Miller
2014-10-14 19:33       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-14 20:00         ` David Miller
2014-10-14 22:16           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-15  2:01             ` David Miller
2014-10-15  2:03               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-15  2:09                 ` David Miller
2014-10-16  6:45                   ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-16  7:07                     ` Thomas Graf
2014-12-16 22:58                       ` David Miller
2014-12-16 23:58                         ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-12-17 16:27                           ` Thomas Graf
2014-12-18 17:36                             ` David Miller
2014-12-17  0:02                         ` Eric Dumazet
2014-12-17 16:26                           ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2014-12-18 10:30                           ` [PATCH net] netlink: Don't reorder loads/stores before marking mmap netlink frame as available Thomas Graf
2014-12-18 17:36                             ` David Miller
2014-12-18 19:13                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-15 23:45               ` Netlink mmap tx security? Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-15 23:57                 ` David Miller
2014-10-15 23:58                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-16  3:34                     ` David Miller
2014-10-16  5:52                   ` Thomas Graf

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