netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ast@kernel.org, sp3485@columbia.edu, tj@kernel.org,
	john.fastabend@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: devmap: Check attr->max_entries more carefully
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:32:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59E5DC46.70309@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171017102935.5i4dqa7h44v4acft@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com>

On 10/17/2017 12:29 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 08:52:13PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> [ +Tejun, Mark, John ]
>>
>> On 10/16/2017 12:00 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> max_entries is user controlled and used as input for __alloc_percpu().
>>> This function expects that the allocation size is a power of two and
>>> less than PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE.
>>> Otherwise a WARN() is triggered.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 11393cc9b9be ("xdp: Add batching support to redirect map")
>>> Reported-by: Shankara Pailoor <sp3485@columbia.edu>
>>> Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
>>
>> Thanks for the patch, Richard. There was a prior discussion here [1] on
>> the same issue, I thought this would have been resolved by now, but looks
>> like it's still open and there was never a follow-up, at least I don't see
>> it in the percpu tree if I didn't miss anything.
>
> Sorry, this was on my todo list, but I've been bogged down with some
> other work.

Ok, no problem.

>> I would suggest, we do the following below and pass __GFP_NOWARN from BPF
>> side to the per-cpu allocs. This is kind of a generic 'issue' and we shouldn't
>> add more code which bails out anyway just to work around the WARN(). Lets
>> handle it properly instead.
>
> Agreed. The below patch looks good to me, (with the suggested change to
> the BPF side).
>
>> If Tejun is fine with the one below, I could cook and official patch and
>> cleanup the remaining call-sites from BPF which have similar pattern.
>
> That would be great; thanks for taking this on.

I'll prepare a set including BPF side for today.

Thanks,
Daniel

      reply	other threads:[~2017-10-17 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-15 22:00 [PATCH] bpf: devmap: Check attr->max_entries more carefully Richard Weinberger
2017-10-15 22:13 ` Richard Weinberger
2017-10-17  4:30   ` John Fastabend
2017-10-16 18:52 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-10-17 10:29   ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-17 10:32     ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=59E5DC46.70309@iogearbox.net \
    --to=daniel@iogearbox.net \
    --cc=ast@kernel.org \
    --cc=john.fastabend@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mark.rutland@arm.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=richard@nod.at \
    --cc=sp3485@columbia.edu \
    --cc=tj@kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).