netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2][INET] Fix potential kfree on vmalloc-ed area of request_sock

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:09:05 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][INET] Fix potential kfree on vmalloc-ed area of
 request_sock_queue

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:42:38 +0100

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:08:29 +0300
> Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org> wrote:
> 
> > The request_sock_queue's listen_opt is either vmalloc-ed or
> > kmalloc-ed depending on the number of table entries. Thus it 
> > is expected to be handled properly on free, which is done in 
> > the reqsk_queue_destroy().
> > 
> > However the error path in inet_csk_listen_start() calls 
> > the lite version of reqsk_queue_destroy, called 
> > __reqsk_queue_destroy, which calls the kfree unconditionally. 
> > 
> > Fix this and move the __reqsk_queue_destroy into a .c file as 
> > it looks too big to be inline.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> 
> > +void __reqsk_queue_destroy(struct request_sock_queue *queue)
> > +{
> > +	struct listen_sock *lopt = reqsk_queue_yank_listen_sk(queue);
> 
> WARNING : lopt can be NULL here (or else the locking in reqsk_queue_yank_listen_sk() would be useless ?)
> 
> kfree(NULL) was ok, not NULL->nr_table_entries :)

I think for the error recovery case he is trying to fix all of this
locking is unnecessary and we know lopt is not NULL.

Pavel can you rework your fix a bit to deal with this?

Thanks a lot.
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