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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: Deadlock with icmpv6fuzz
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:24:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adafxisjzel.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090205143143.GA18734@alice> (Eric Sesterhenn's message of "Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:31:43 +0100")

 > [ 2880.044328] icmpv6fuzz: page allocation failure. order:9, mode:0x40d0
 > [ 2880.044495] Pid: 10968, comm: icmpv6fuzz Not tainted
 > 2.6.29-rc3-00580-ga2fe994-dirty #239
 > [ 2880.044694] Call Trace:
 > [ 2880.044802]  [<c016886a>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x38e/0x3aa
 > [ 2880.044954]  [<c016889a>] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x24
 > [ 2880.071336]  [<c018412c>] __kmalloc+0x2e/0x122
 > [ 2880.071589]  [<c06fa227>] ipv6_flowlabel_opt+0x1e0/0x7b1
 > [ 2880.092922]  [<c06e8c9e>] ipv6_setsockopt+0xa0f/0xb89

>From a quick scan of the code, it looks as if optlen is never sanity
checked in the case of setsockopt(IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR), and
ipv6_flowlabel_opt() calls into fl_create() with whatever value
userspace passes in, which then pretty much does kmalloc(optlen).
So if icmpv6fuzz passes some big random value, it can cause this failure.

I don't know what the appropriate limit should be, so no patch, sorry.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20 20:47 Deadlock with icmpv6fuzz Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-27  5:31 ` David Miller
2009-01-27  7:53   ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-28  9:35     ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-30  1:49       ` David Miller
2009-02-05 13:01         ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-05 14:31           ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-02-05 22:24             ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-02-05 23:43               ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-06  8:50                 ` David Miller
2009-02-06  8:54                   ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-06  9:05                     ` David Miller
2009-02-06  9:22                       ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-06  9:27                         ` David Miller
2009-02-06 10:27                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-06 10:34                             ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-06 11:07                               ` David Miller
2009-02-09  5:03                                 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-09  6:04                                   ` David Miller
2009-02-25  7:44                                   ` David Miller
2009-02-25  8:25                                     ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-06 11:05                             ` David Miller
2009-02-05 23:16           ` David Miller

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