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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Cc: Liping Zhang <zlpwmdx@163.com>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net,
	davem@davemloft.net, Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipv4: fix NULL dereference
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:16:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160324201644.GB1561@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F39E82.4090902@kyup.com>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:00:02AM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> I've been running production kernels in production with those changes
> and so far I haven't observed a single crash resulting from this.
> Furthermore, I  believe that all the call sites of synproxy_build_ip
> should have the skb associated with a valid tcp socket, which must have
> originated from a particular namespace.

Please, always Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org for patches that
modify netfilter code. Your change is buggy, we cannot assume skb->sk
set on packets that are being forwarded, we could have detected this
following this process.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-24 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23 14:27 [PATCH] netfilter: ipv4: fix NULL dereference Liping Zhang
2016-03-24  8:00 ` Nikolay Borisov
     [not found]   ` <54382a12.8a92.153a7ba19ff.Coremail.zlpwmdx@163.com>
2016-03-24  8:45     ` Nikolay Borisov
2016-03-24 20:16   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-03-24 20:22 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-03-25  6:38   ` Liping Zhang
2016-03-25 10:49     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-03-25  7:24   ` Liping Zhang

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