netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] inet_diag: fix oops for IPv4 AF

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Date:	Sun, 9 Dec 2012 22:40:34 -0500
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] inet_diag: fix oops for IPv4 AF_INET6 TCP
 SYN-RECV state

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:01 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Date: Sun,  9 Dec 2012 00:43:21 -0500
>
>> Fix inet_diag to be aware of the fact that AF_INET6 TCP connections
>> instantiated for IPv4 traffic and in the SYN-RECV state were actually
>> created with inet_reqsk_alloc(), instead of inet6_reqsk_alloc(). This
>> means that for such connections inet6_rsk(req) returns a pointer to a
>> random spot in memory up to roughly 64KB beyond the end of the
>> request_sock.
>>
>> With this bug, for a server using AF_INET6 TCP sockets and serving
>> IPv4 traffic, an inet_diag user like `ss state SYN-RECV` would lead to
>> inet_diag_fill_req() causing an oops or the export to user space of 16
>> bytes of kernel memory as a garbage IPv6 address, depending on where
>> the garbage inet6_rsk(req) pointed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
>
> Applied.

Thanks, David.

neal
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