netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfq: fix sfq stats handling

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Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:39:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jarkao2@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfq: fix sfq stats handling

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:14:59 +0100

> David, since this one fixes a bug, could you apply it before the pending
> SFQ patch (sch_sfq: allow big packets and be fair), I'll respin this one
> if necessary.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfq: fix sfq class stats handling
> 
> sfq_walk() runs without qdisc lock. By the time it selects a non empty
> hash slot and sfq_dump_class_stats() is run (with lock held), slot might
> have been freed : We then access q->slots[SFQ_EMPTY_SLOT], out of
> bounds, and crash in slot_queue_walk()
> 
> On previous kernels, bug is here but out of bounds qs[SFQ_DEPTH] and
> allot[SFQ_DEPTH] are located in struct sfq_sched_data, so no illegal
> memory access happens, only possibly wrong data reported to user.
> 
> Also, slot_dequeue_tail() should make sure slot skb chain is correctly
> terminated, or sfq_dump_class_stats() can access freed skbs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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