netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in __alloc

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 12:30:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	casteyde.christian@...e.fr,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized
 memory in __alloc_skb

On Tue, 10 May 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 11:39 -0500, Christoph Lameter a écrit :
>
> > #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC
> > 	if (illegal_page_alloc-address(object))
> > 		goto redo;
> > #endif
> >
> > before the cmpxchg should do the trick.
> >
>
> Again, it wont work...
>
> You can have an IRQ right after the check and before cmpxchg

Ok guess then we also need to disable irq if CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC is set?

The cmpxchg is not the problem. The problem is the following expression
which retrieves the pointer to the next available object from the object
on the page:

get_freepointer(s, object)

In the CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC case we could disable interrupts, then do the
check, then fetch the pointer and then reenable interrupts.

All of this can occur before the cmpxchg.

> This interrupt can allocate this block of memory, free it, and unmap
> page from memory.
>
> cmpxchg() reads unmapped memory -> BUG

The cmpxchg is not accessing any memory on the page.