netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] net: add limit for socket backlog

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Date:	Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:00:25 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
To:	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
	Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>,
	Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] net: add limit for socket backlog

Em Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:01:40PM +0800, Zhu Yi escreveu:
> We got system OOM while running some UDP netperf testing on the loopback
> device. The case is multiple senders sent stream UDP packets to a single
> receiver via loopback on local host. Of course, the receiver is not able
> to handle all the packets in time. But we surprisingly found that these
> packets were not discarded due to the receiver's sk->sk_rcvbuf limit.
> Instead, they are kept queuing to sk->sk_backlog and finally ate up all
> the memory. We believe this is a secure hole that a none privileged user
> can crash the system.
> 
> The root cause for this problem is, when the receiver is doing
> __release_sock() (i.e. after userspace recv, kernel udp_recvmsg ->
> skb_free_datagram_locked -> release_sock), it moves skbs from backlog to
> sk_receive_queue with the softirq enabled. In the above case, multiple
> busy senders will almost make it an endless loop. The skbs in the
> backlog end up eat all the system memory.
> 
> The issue is not only for UDP. Any protocols using socket backlog is
> potentially affected. The patch adds limit for socket backlog so that
> the backlog size cannot be expanded endlessly.

>From visual inspection (no testing):

Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

- Arnaldo
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