netdev - invalid socket structure with ip_early

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Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:08:47 -0800
From:	Steve Muckle <smuckle@...eaurora.org>
To:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: invalid socket structure with ip_early_demux

Recently I've struggled with crashes in the xt_qtaguid netfilter module.
This module is written by Google and used with Android. The match
function in xt_qtaguid eventually tries to access

  skb->sk->sk_socket->file

What I find is that the sk->sk_socket pointer is sometimes 0xAAAAAAAA,
or PAGE_POISON. In fact everything after the first 16 bytes of the
struct sock sk is PAGE_POISON. I've confirmed that if I change
PAGE_POISON, the values I see in the sk structure change as well.

I was curious how this structure was being allocated/initialized and
instrumented the sk_alloc, sk_free, and sk_clone_lock functions. When
xt_qtaguid encounters a bad struct sock, that sock does not show up as
ever having been allocated (or freed).

The struct sock is being assigned to the skb in tcb_v4_early_demux(). I
modified that function immediately after the sk is assigned from
__inet_lookup_established() to panic if the sk has a sk_socket pointer
of PAGE_POISON. I can reproduce that condition on my target by simply
attempting to mount an NFS volume. Initiating *and* aborting wget
operations also reproduces the issue - simply initiating a bunch of
wgets is not enough to trigger it.

I have not yet been able to reproduce the bad condition when disabling
ip_early_demux via the sysctl. Any possibility this is an actual issue
with that feature? My target is an MSM using the ks8851 ethernet module.

thanks,
Steve

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