From: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, nhorman@tuxdriver.com,
mark.d.rustad@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net: cgroup: null ptr dereference in netprio cgroup during init
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:59:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5006188B.7060606@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120718003316.2979.49278.stgit@jf-dev1-dcblab>
于 2012年07月18日 08:33, John Fastabend 写道:
> When the netprio cgroup is built in the kernel cgroup_init will call
> cgrp_create which eventually calls update_netdev_tables. This is
> being called before do_initcalls() so a null ptr dereference occurs
> on init_net.
>
> This patch adds a check on init_net.count to verify the structure
> has been initialized. The failure was introduced here,
>
> commit ef209f15980360f6945873df3cd710c5f62f2a3e
> Author: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Date: Wed Jul 11 21:50:15 2012 +0000
>
> net: cgroup: fix access the unallocated memory in netprio cgroup
>
> Tested with ping with netprio_cgroup as a module and built in.
>
> Marked RFC for now I think DaveM might have a reason why this needs
> some improvement.
>
> Reported-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
> ---
>
> net/core/netprio_cgroup.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c b/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> index b2e9caa..e9fd7fd 100644
> --- a/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> +++ b/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> @@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ static int update_netdev_tables(void)
> u32 max_len;
> struct netprio_map *map;
Thanks John.
It's my mistake.
Can we make sure init_net.count is zero here?
I can't find some places to initialize it to zero.
>
> + if (!atomic_read(&init_net.count))
> + return ret;
> +
> rtnl_lock();
> max_len = atomic_read(&max_prioidx) + 1;
> for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) {
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-18 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-18 0:33 [RFC PATCH] net: cgroup: null ptr dereference in netprio cgroup during init John Fastabend
2012-07-18 1:59 ` Gao feng [this message]
2012-07-18 5:50 ` John Fastabend
2012-07-18 7:58 ` Gao feng
2012-07-18 12:45 ` Neil Horman
2012-07-18 14:21 ` John Fastabend
2012-07-18 15:14 ` John Fastabend
2012-07-18 16:50 ` Neil Horman
2012-07-18 17:14 ` Neil Horman
2012-07-18 15:25 ` Neil Horman
2012-07-18 15:53 ` David Miller
2012-07-18 16:37 ` Neil Horman
2012-07-18 16:39 ` David Miller
2012-07-18 16:26 ` David Miller
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