linux-kernel - Re: WARNING in __proc

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, 9 Mar 2018 15:05:09 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+0502b00edac2a0680b61@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        coreteam@...filter.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: WARNING in __proc_create

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/09/2018 02:56 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>>
>> I sent a patch a while back, but Pablo/Florian wanted more than that
>> simple fix.
>>
>> We also need to filter special characters like '/'

proc_create_data() itself accepts '/', so it must be xt_hashlimit doesn't
want it.

>>
>> Or maybe I am mixing with something else.
>
>
> Yes, Florian mentioned that we also had to reject "."  and ".."
>

It could be, but looks like not as trivial as just strstr(".")?

BTW, the warning itself is all about empty names, so perhaps
it's better to fix them separately.