netdev - RFC: [PATCH 2/3] netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:15:49 +0800
From:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	NETDEV <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RFC: [PATCH 2/3] netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow

Max of promiscuity and allmulti plus positive @inc can cause overflow.
Fox example: when allmulti=0xFFFFFFFF, any caller give dev_set_allmulti() a
positive @inc will cause allmulti be off.
This is not what we want, though it's rare case.
The fix is that only negative @inc will cause allmulti or promiscuity be off
and when any caller will make the counters touch the roof, we report error.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 5829630..a3c692d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2753,10 +2753,20 @@ static void __dev_set_promiscuity(struct net_device *dev, int inc)
 
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
+	dev->flags |= IFF_PROMISC;
 	if ((dev->promiscuity += inc) == 0)
-		dev->flags &= ~IFF_PROMISC;
-	else
-		dev->flags |= IFF_PROMISC;
+		/*
+		 * Avoid overflow.
+		 * If inc causes overflow, ignore it and warn user.
+		 */
+		if (inc < 0)
+			dev->flags &= ~IFF_PROMISC;
+		else {
+			dev->promiscuity -= inc;
+			printk(KERN_ERR "%s: promiscuity touches roof, "
+				"set promiscuity failed, promiscuity feature "
+				"of device will be broken.\n");
+		}
 	if (dev->flags != old_flags) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "device %s %s promiscuous mode\n",
 		       dev->name, (dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC) ? "entered" :
@@ -2815,7 +2825,18 @@ void dev_set_allmulti(struct net_device *dev, int inc)
 
 	dev->flags |= IFF_ALLMULTI;
 	if ((dev->allmulti += inc) == 0)
-		dev->flags &= ~IFF_ALLMULTI;
+		/*
+		 * Avoid overflow.
+		 * If inc causes overflow, ignore it and warn user.
+		 */
+		if (inc < 0)
+			dev->flags &= ~IFF_ALLMULTI;
+		else {
+			dev->allmulti -= inc;
+			printk(KERN_ERR "%s: allmulti touches roof, "
+				"set allmulti failed, allmulti feature of "
+				"device will be broken.\n");
+		}
 	if (dev->flags ^ old_flags) {
 		if (dev->change_rx_flags)
 			dev->change_rx_flags(dev, IFF_ALLMULTI);
-- 
1.5.3.4




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