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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] skb corruption and kernel panic at forwarding with fragmentation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:03:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160107120339.GC23789@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALYGNiObS1fuDNi7Q69BwoWmU8xOnndzy7Z-m35aphjQWUuEnQ@mail.gmail.com>

Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote:
> > ... but it seems that those three are the only affected callers
> > of skb_gso_segment (tbf is ok since skb isn't owned by anyone,
> > ovs does save/restore already).
> >
> > I think this patch is the right way, we just need similar
> > save/restore in nfqnl_enqueue_packet and xfrm_output_gso().
> 
> Which CB could be here? at this point skb isn't owned by netlink yet.

inet(6)_skb_parm, nfqnl_enqueue_packet is called via netfilter hooks, skb
is owned by ipv4 or ipv6 stack.

> > The latter two can be used by either ipv4 or ipv6 so it might
> > be preferable to just save/restore sizeof(struct skb_gso_cb);
> > or a union of inet_skb_parm+inet6_skb_parm.
> 
> Or just shift GSO CB and add couple checks like
> BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(SKB_GSO_CB(skb)->room) < sizeof(*IPCB(skb)));

Right, that works too.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-07 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-06 19:15 [BUG] skb corruption and kernel panic at forwarding with fragmentation Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-01-06 19:59 ` Cong Wang
2016-01-06 20:11   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-01-06 21:05     ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2016-01-06 22:03       ` Florian Westphal
2016-01-06 23:49         ` Florian Westphal
2016-01-07 11:00           ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-01-07 11:38             ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-01-07 11:59               ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-07 12:04                 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-01-07 12:54                   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-07 19:35                     ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-01-07 19:47                       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-07 12:03             ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2016-01-07 18:43           ` [PATCH] net: prevent corruption of skb when using skb_gso_segment Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2016-01-07 19:31             ` Florian Westphal
2016-01-07 21:16               ` [PATCH v2] " Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

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