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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
To: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCTP: Fix possible memory leak while process INIT chunk with AUTH paramters
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:24:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E25794.6050001@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E20DA8.1080805@cn.fujitsu.com>

Hi Wei

Wei Yongjun wrote:
> While endpoint received INIT/INIT-ACK chunk with AUTH parameters, such 
> as RANDOM, HMAC_ALGO, CHUNKS parameter, if those parameters appear more 
> then once, memory for store those parameters will be malloc more then 
> once and not free.
> 

All these parameters must be included only once in the packet.

If these things are included more then once, we should either ABORT or
completely ignore the packet.  I haven't decided which one makes more
sense yet.

If someone when to the trouble of violating the protocol, we should not
establish the association with them.

-vlad

> This patch change to used the first parameter and ignore the others.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> --- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c    2008-02-11 17:14:05.000000000 -0500
> +++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c    2008-02-14 03:57:58.000000000 -0500
> @@ -2458,6 +2458,9 @@ static int sctp_process_param(struct sct
>         if (!sctp_auth_enable)
>             goto fall_through;
> 
> +        if (asoc->peer.peer_random)
> +            break;
> +
>         /* Save peer's random parameter */
>         asoc->peer.peer_random = kmemdup(param.p,
>                         ntohs(param.p->length), gfp);
> @@ -2471,6 +2474,9 @@ static int sctp_process_param(struct sct
>         if (!sctp_auth_enable)
>             goto fall_through;
> 
> +        if (asoc->peer.peer_hmacs) +            break;
> +
>         /* Save peer's HMAC list */
>         asoc->peer.peer_hmacs = kmemdup(param.p,
>                         ntohs(param.p->length), gfp);
> @@ -2487,6 +2493,9 @@ static int sctp_process_param(struct sct
>         if (!sctp_auth_enable)
>             goto fall_through;
> 
> +        if (asoc->peer.peer_chunks)
> +            break;
> +
>         asoc->peer.peer_chunks = kmemdup(param.p,
>                         ntohs(param.p->length), gfp);
>         if (!asoc->peer.peer_chunks)
> 
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-20  7:09 [PATCH] SCTP: Fix possible memory leak while process INIT chunk with AUTH paramters Wei Yongjun
2008-03-20 12:24 ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2008-03-21  2:16   ` Wei Yongjun
2008-03-25 13:03     ` Vlad Yasevich

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