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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: "Nordlund Kim (Nokia-NET/Helsinki)" <Kim.Nordlund@nokia.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PKT_SCHED] act_gact: division by zero
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:17:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456ECBC5.3080501@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0611301309550.14993-100000@dhcp09282.ntc.nokia.com>

Nordlund Kim (Nokia-NET/Helsinki) wrote:
> tc qdisc add dev eth1 handle ffff: ingress
> tc filter add dev eth1 protocol ip parent ffff: pref 99 basic \
>    flowid 1:1 action pass random determ drop 0
>                                              ^
> the above cause a division by zero in the kernel on the first
> packet in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kim Nordlund <kim.nordlund@nokia.com>
> 
> diff -rub linux-2.6.19-orig/net/sched/act_gact.c linux/net/sched/act_gact.c
> --- linux-2.6.19-orig/net/sched/act_gact.c	2006-11-29 23:57:37.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/net/sched/act_gact.c	2006-11-30 13:22:37.000000000 +0200
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
>  	if (tb[TCA_GACT_PROB-1] != NULL) {
>  		struct tc_gact_p *p_parm = RTA_DATA(tb[TCA_GACT_PROB-1]);
>  		gact->tcfg_paction = p_parm->paction;
> -		gact->tcfg_pval    = p_parm->pval;
> +		gact->tcfg_pval    = p_parm->pval ? : 1;


I think it should reject an invalid configuration or handle
the zero case correctly by not dividing.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-30 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30 12:06 [PKT_SCHED] act_gact: division by zero Nordlund Kim (Nokia-NET/Helsinki)
2006-11-30 12:17 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-11-30 13:51   ` Nordlund Kim (Nokia-NET/Helsinki)
2006-11-30 14:05     ` Patrick McHardy
2006-12-02  4:21     ` David Miller

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