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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: zlpnobody@163.com
Cc: pshelar@ovn.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, zlpnobody@gmail.com,
	neil.mckee@inmon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V3] openvswitch: fix skb_panic due to the incorrect actions attrlen
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:13:05 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170816.141305.1998207836740801812.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170816053007.13991-1-zlpnobody@163.com>

From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@163.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:30:07 +0800

> From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
> 
> For sw_flow_actions, the actions_len only represents the kernel part's
> size, and when we dump the actions to the userspace, we will do the
> convertions, so it's true size may become bigger than the actions_len.
> 
> But unfortunately, for OVS_PACKET_ATTR_ACTIONS, we use the actions_len
> to alloc the skbuff, so the user_skb's size may become insufficient and
> oops will happen like this:
 ...
> Also we can find that the actions_len is much little than the orig_len:
>   crash> struct sw_flow_actions 0xffff8812f539d000
>   struct sw_flow_actions {
>     rcu = {
>       next = 0xffff8812f5398800,
>       func = 0xffffe3b00035db32
>     },
>     orig_len = 1384,
>     actions_len = 592,
>     actions = 0xffff8812f539d01c
>   }
> 
> So as a quick fix, use the orig_len instead of the actions_len to alloc
> the user_skb.
> 
> Last, this oops happened on our system running a relative old kernel, but
> the same risk still exists on the mainline, since we use the wrong
> actions_len from the beginning.
> 
> Fixes: ccea74457bbd ("openvswitch: include datapath actions with sampled-packet upcall to userspace")
> Cc: Neil McKee <neil.mckee@inmon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-16 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-16  5:30 [PATCH net V3] openvswitch: fix skb_panic due to the incorrect actions attrlen Liping Zhang
2017-08-16 19:21 ` Pravin Shelar
2017-08-16 21:13 ` David Miller [this message]

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