netdev - [PATCH net-next 1/1] af-packet: fix

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:42:19 -0400
From:	Chetan Loke <loke.chetan@...il.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	lokechetan@...il.com, Chetan Loke <loke.chetan@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/1] af-packet: fix - avoid reading stale data

Currently we flush tp_status and then flush the remainder of the header+payload.
tp_status should be flushed in the end to avoid stale data being read by user-space.


Signed-off-by: Chetan Loke <loke.chetan@...il.com>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index d2294ad..f7be71f 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -1129,8 +1129,6 @@ static int tpacket_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	else
 		sll->sll_ifindex = dev->ifindex;
 
-	__packet_set_status(po, h.raw, status);
-	smp_mb();
 #if ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE == 1
 	{
 		u8 *start, *end;
@@ -1140,6 +1138,8 @@ static int tpacket_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 			flush_dcache_page(pgv_to_page(start));
 	}
 #endif
+	smp_mb();
+	__packet_set_status(po, h.raw, status);
 
 	sk->sk_data_ready(sk, 0);
 
-- 
1.7.5.2

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html