From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: [NET_SCHED]: cls_basic: fix NULL pointer dereference
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:15:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46001694.9090402@trash.net> (raw)
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These two patches fix the cls_basic crash reported by Chris
Madden and the ingress locking problem.
Please apply, thanks.
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[NET_SCHED]: cls_basic: fix NULL pointer dereference
cls_basic doesn't allocate tp->root before it is linked into the
active classifier list, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference
when packets hit the classifier before its ->change function is
called.
Reported by Chris Madden <chris@reflexsecurity.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
---
commit f1b9a0694552e18e7a43c292d21abe3b51dfcae2
tree f5ae39c1746fdc1ffbee6c1d90d035ee48ca4904
parent 0a14fe6e5efd0af0f9c6c01e0433445d615d0110
author Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:08:54 +0100
committer Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:08:54 +0100
net/sched/cls_basic.c | 16 +++++++---------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_basic.c b/net/sched/cls_basic.c
index fad08e5..70fe36e 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_basic.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_basic.c
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ static void basic_put(struct tcf_proto *
static int basic_init(struct tcf_proto *tp)
{
+ struct basic_head *head;
+
+ head = kzalloc(sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (head == NULL)
+ return -ENOBUFS;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head->flist);
+ tp->root = head;
return 0;
}
@@ -176,15 +183,6 @@ static int basic_change(struct tcf_proto
}
err = -ENOBUFS;
- if (head == NULL) {
- head = kzalloc(sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (head == NULL)
- goto errout;
-
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head->flist);
- tp->root = head;
- }
-
f = kzalloc(sizeof(*f), GFP_KERNEL);
if (f == NULL)
goto errout;
next reply other threads:[~2007-03-20 17:15 UTC|newest]
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2007-03-20 17:15 Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-03-25 5:14 ` [NET_SCHED]: cls_basic: fix NULL pointer dereference David Miller
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