From: sunichi <sunyiqixm@gmail.com>
To: aconole@redhat.com, echaudro@redhat.com, i.maximets@ovn.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
dev@openvswitch.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
sunichi <sunyiqixm@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/openvswitch: fix trigger-able BUG_ON after ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:14:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260323071435.1945543-1-sunyiqixm@gmail.com> (raw)
ovs_vport_set_upcall_portids() does not validate the length of the
user-supplied OVS_VPORT_ATTR_UPCALL_PID netlink attribute. A
sufficiently large portid list can overflow the reply skb allocated
with NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE in causing ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info()
to return -EMSGSIZE and triggering the unconditional BUG_ON(),
which panics the kernel on most distributions.
Any local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN (or an equivalent unprivileged
namespace capability where applicable) can exploit this to perform a
denial-of-service against the host.
Replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON_ONCE to prevent kernel panic.
Signed-off-by: sunichi <sunyiqixm@gmail.com>
---
net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index e209099218b4..50c2945081a1 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -2202,7 +2202,8 @@ struct sk_buff *ovs_vport_cmd_build_info(struct vport *vport, struct net *net,
retval = ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info(vport, skb, net, portid, seq, 0, cmd,
GFP_KERNEL);
- BUG_ON(retval < 0);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(retval < 0))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EMSGSIZE);
return skb;
}
@@ -2358,7 +2359,9 @@ static int ovs_vport_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
else
netdev_set_rx_headroom(vport->dev, dp->max_headroom);
- BUG_ON(err < 0);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(err < 0))
+ goto exit_unlock_free;
+
ovs_unlock();
ovs_notify(&dp_vport_genl_family, reply, info);
@@ -2411,7 +2414,8 @@ static int ovs_vport_cmd_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
err = ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info(vport, reply, genl_info_net(info),
info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq, 0,
OVS_VPORT_CMD_SET, GFP_KERNEL);
- BUG_ON(err < 0);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(err < 0))
+ goto exit_unlock_free;
ovs_unlock();
ovs_notify(&dp_vport_genl_family, reply, info);
@@ -2451,7 +2455,8 @@ static int ovs_vport_cmd_del(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
err = ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info(vport, reply, genl_info_net(info),
info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq, 0,
OVS_VPORT_CMD_DEL, GFP_KERNEL);
- BUG_ON(err < 0);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(err < 0))
+ goto exit_unlock_free;
/* the vport deletion may trigger dp headroom update */
dp = vport->dp;
@@ -2498,7 +2503,9 @@ static int ovs_vport_cmd_get(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
err = ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info(vport, reply, genl_info_net(info),
info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq, 0,
OVS_VPORT_CMD_GET, GFP_ATOMIC);
- BUG_ON(err < 0);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(err < 0))
+ goto exit_unlock_free;
+
rcu_read_unlock();
return genlmsg_reply(reply, info);
--
2.34.1
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2026-03-23 7:14 sunichi [this message]
2026-03-24 12:01 ` [PATCH] net/openvswitch: fix trigger-able BUG_ON after ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info Ilya Maximets
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