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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: kovalev@altlinux.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, jiri@resnulli.us, jacob.e.keller@intel.com,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net, idosch@nvidia.com, horms@kernel.org,
	david.lebrun@uclouvain.be, pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net ver.2] genetlink: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref in genl_dumpit()
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:23:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240221172309.405cc4b1@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240220102512.104452-1-kovalev@altlinux.org>

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:25:12 +0300 kovalev@altlinux.org wrote:
> From: Vasiliy Kovalev <kovalev@altlinux.org>
> 
> The pernet operations structure for the subsystem must be registered
> before registering the generic netlink family.

I think this one is incorrect, genetlink is what other families
register _with_. It's special. Until it opens the socket in
genl_pernet_init() nothing can reach it from user space.

We should probably add a comment saying that it's special, I get
the feeling other families ended up doing a copy & paste of genetlink..
-- 
pw-bot: cr

      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-22  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-20 10:25 [PATCH net ver.2] genetlink: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref in genl_dumpit() kovalev
2024-02-20 10:36 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-02-20 11:03   ` kovalev
2024-02-22  1:23 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]

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