netdev - Re: Bug: tc filter show .... raise segfault if more than one rule with action -j MARK exist

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2014 13:10:48 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	andreas.greve@...reve.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: tc filter show .... raise segfault if more than one rule
 with action -j MARK exist

On Sat, 10 May 2014 11:19:18 +0200
Andreas Greve <andreas.greve@...reve.de> wrote:

> sorry its to early for me ;)
> 
> here the missing attachment.
> 
> On 05/10/14 11:11, Andreas Greve wrote:
> > Dear Stephen Hemminger, Dear List Members,
> >
> > this is a corrected/optimized version of the patch
> > Thanks to Stephen Hemminger, for giving me the hint to use structure 
> > assignment instead of
> > memcpy().
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Andreas Greve
> >
> > On 05/08/14 13:48, Andreas Greve wrote:
> >> Dear Stephen Hemminger, Dear List Members,
> >>
> >> the command
> >>
> >> tc filter show dev eth1 parent ffff:
> >>
> >> raise a segmentation fault if there are more than one filter rule 
> >> with action -j MARK exists.
> >>
> >> Reason:
> >> In print_ipt(...) xtables will be initialzed with a pointer to the 
> >> static struct tcipt_globals at xtables_init_all(). Later on the 
> >> fields .opts and .options_offset of tcipt_globals are modified. The 
> >> call of xtables_free_opts(1) at the end of print_ipt(...) does not 
> >> restore the original values of tcipt_globals for the modified fields. 
> >> It only frees some allocated memory and sets .opts to NULL. This 
> >> leads to a segmentation fault when print_ipt()
> >> is called for the next filter rule with action -j MARK.
> >>
> >> Fix: (patch attached)
> >> Cloneing tcipt_globals on the stack as tmp_tcipt_globals and use it 
> >> instead of tcipt_globals, so tcipt_globals will be not modified.
> >>
> >> Tests:
> >> I only have done limit tests for this fix ( action -j MARK ) on a 
> >> debian wheezy iproute2 package build from source based on 
> >> upstream/3.14.0. The system is a little bit special  kernel 
> >> 3.12.17-xen on xen-4.4.1-pre.
> >>
> >>
> >> Andreas Henriksson (debian iproute maintainer) give me an other idea 
> >> of how to fix this bug by modifying  xtables_free_opts() so that it 
> >> sets .opts = .orig_opts instead .opts = NULL. This should avoid 
> >> having to duplicate the entire struct each time.
> >>
> >> I prefer the cloning  because:
> >>
> >> 1)  In my understanding the variable tcipt_globals is a complex 
> >> "constant" that should never be modified. ( Is that right ?)
> >>
> >> 2) If we want to do the fix in xtables_free_opts we have to change 
> >> the struct xtables_globals because we need for all fields .orig 
> >> fields I think this will  make all things much more complicated.
> >>
> >>
> >> additional Brainstorms:
> >>
> >> a ) Perhaps we have to think about of a deep clone of tcipt_globals 
> >> to protect the underlaying option array
> >> b ) makes cloning of  tcipt_globals sense in  parse_ipt(...)
> >> But for this two decisions my understanding of the whole system is 
> >> not enough.
> >>
> >>
> >> I hope the Information helps

Applied, but overly wordy comment simplified, and whitespace issues fixed.

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