netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: sctp: do not trigger BUG_ON in sctp_cmd_delete

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Date:	Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:47:37 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dborkman@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	vyasevich@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: sctp: do not trigger BUG_ON in
 sctp_cmd_delete_tcb

From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:13:32 +0100

> Introduced in f9e42b853523 ("net: sctp: sideeffect: throw BUG if
> primary_path is NULL"), we intended to find a buggy assoc that's
> part of the assoc hash table with a primary_path that is NULL.
> However, we better remove the BUG_ON for now and find a more
> suitable place to assert for these things as Mark reports that
> this also triggers the bug when duplication cookie processing
> happens, and the assoc is not part of the hash table (so all
> good in this case). Such a situation can for example easily be
> reproduced by:
> 
>   tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: prio bands 2 priomap 1 1 1 1 1 1
>   tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:2 handle 20: netem loss 20%
>   tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent 1: prio 2 u32 match ip \
>             protocol 132 0xff match u8 0x0b 0xff at 32 flowid 1:2
> 
> This drops 20% of COOKIE-ACK packets. After some follow-up
> discussion with Vlad we came to the conclusion that for now we
> should still better remove this BUG_ON() assertion, and come up
> with two follow-ups later on, that is, i) find a more suitable
> place for this assertion, and possibly ii) have a special
> allocator/initializer for such kind of temporary assocs.
> 
> Reported-by: Mark Thomas <Mark.Thomas@...aswitch.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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