netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive dereference inside the stack

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Date:	Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:14:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive
 dereference inside the stack

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed,  1 Apr 2015 17:07:44 +0200

> From: "hannes@...essinduktion.org" <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> 
> We should not consult skb->sk for output decisions in xmit recursion
> levels > 0 in the stack. Otherwise local socket settings could influence
> the result of e.g. tunnel encapsulation process.
> 
> ipv6 does not conform with this in three places:
> 
> 1) ip6_fragment: we do consult ipv6_npinfo for frag_size
> 
> 2) sk_mc_loop in ipv6 uses skb->sk and checks if we should
>    loop the packet back to the local socket
> 
> 3) ip6_skb_dst_mtu could query the settings from the user socket and
>    force a wrong MTU
> 
> Furthermore:
> In sk_mc_loop we could potentially land in WARN_ON(1) if we use a
> PF_PACKET socket ontop of an IPv6-backed vxlan device.
> 
> Reuse xmit_recursion as we are currently only interested in protecting
> tunnel devices.
> 
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

So I'm applying this now for 'net' and queueing it up for -stable.

In net-next, we're going to pass the tunnel socket pointer down as per
the work I've been doing over the weekend.
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