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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Juhee Kang <claudiajkang@gmail.com>
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, kadlec@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, luciano.coelho@nokia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer_type has garbage value
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 14:01:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211004120115.GL2935@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211004115101.1579-1-claudiajkang@gmail.com>

Juhee Kang <claudiajkang@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, when the rule related to IDLETIMER is added, idletimer_tg timer 
> structure is initialized by kmalloc on executing idletimer_tg_create 
> function. However, in this process timer->timer_type is not defined to 
> a specific value. Thus, timer->timer_type has garbage value and it occurs 
> kernel panic. So, this commit fixes the panic by initializing 
> timer->timer_type using kzalloc instead of kmalloc.
> 
> Test commands:
>     # iptables -A OUTPUT -j IDLETIMER --timeout 1 --label test
>     $ cat /sys/class/xt_idletimer/timers/test
>       Killed
> 
> Splat looks like:
>     BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70
>     Read of size 8 at addr 0000002e8c7bc4c8 by task cat/917
>     CPU: 12 PID: 917 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.14.0+ #3 79940a339f71eb14fc81aee1757a20d5bf13eb0e
>     Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
>     Call Trace:
>      dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x9c
>      kasan_report.cold+0x112/0x117
>      ? alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70
>      __asan_load8+0x86/0xb0
>      alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70
>      idletimer_tg_show+0xe5/0x19b [xt_IDLETIMER 11219304af9316a21bee5ba9d58f76a6b9bccc6d]

> Fixes: 0902b469bd250 ("netfilter: xtables: idletimer target implementation")

Hmm, I don't think so.

Probably:
Fixes: 68983a354a65 ("netfilter: xtables: Add snapshot of hardidletimer target")

?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-04 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-04 11:51 [PATCH nf] netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer_type has garbage value Juhee Kang
2021-10-04 12:01 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2021-10-04 12:06   ` Juhee Kang

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