linux-kernel - [60/90] gre: fix improper error handling

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:04:45 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@...l.ru>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [60/90] gre: fix improper error handling

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------


From: "xeb@...l.ru" <xeb@...l.ru>

[ Upstream commit 559fafb94ad9e4cd8774f39241917c57396f9fc5 ]

Fix improper protocol err_handler, current implementation is fully
unapplicable and may cause kernel crash due to double kfree_skb.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@...l.ru>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 net/ipv4/gre.c |   21 ++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/gre.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/kmod.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
 #include <linux/in.h>
+#include <linux/ip.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
 #include <linux/version.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
@@ -97,27 +98,17 @@ drop:
 static void gre_err(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 info)
 {
 	const struct gre_protocol *proto;
-	u8 ver;
-
-	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, 12))
-		goto drop;
+	const struct iphdr *iph = (const struct iphdr *)skb->data;
+	u8 ver = skb->data[(iph->ihl<<2) + 1]&0x7f;
 
-	ver = skb->data[1]&0x7f;
 	if (ver >= GREPROTO_MAX)
-		goto drop;
+		return;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	proto = rcu_dereference(gre_proto[ver]);
-	if (!proto || !proto->err_handler)
-		goto drop_unlock;
-	proto->err_handler(skb, info);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-	return;
-
-drop_unlock:
+	if (proto && proto->err_handler)
+		proto->err_handler(skb, info);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-drop:
-	kfree_skb(skb);
 }
 
 static const struct net_protocol net_gre_protocol = {


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/