linux-kernel - [ 12/22] packet: fix leakage of tx

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Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:36:55 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@...rinet.com>,
	Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@...-log.net>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [ 12/22] packet: fix leakage of tx_ring memory

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@...rinet.com>

[ Upstream commit 9665d5d62487e8e7b1f546c00e11107155384b9a ]

When releasing a packet socket, the routine packet_set_ring() is reused
to free rings instead of allocating them. But when calling it for the
first time, it fills req->tp_block_nr with the value of rb->pg_vec_len
which in the second invocation makes it bail out since req->tp_block_nr
is greater zero but req->tp_block_size is zero.

This patch solves the problem by passing a zeroed auto-variable to
packet_set_ring() upon each invocation from packet_release().

As far as I can tell, this issue exists even since 69e3c75 (net: TX_RING
and packet mmap), i.e. the original inclusion of TX ring support into
af_packet, but applies only to sockets with both RX and TX ring
allocated, which is probably why this was unnoticed all the time.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@...rinet.com>
Cc: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@...-log.net>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -1349,13 +1349,15 @@ static int packet_release(struct socket

 	packet_flush_mclist(sk);

-	memset(&req, 0, sizeof(req));
-
-	if (po->rx_ring.pg_vec)
+	if (po->rx_ring.pg_vec) {
+		memset(&req, 0, sizeof(req));
 		packet_set_ring(sk, &req, 1, 0);
+	}

-	if (po->tx_ring.pg_vec)
+	if (po->tx_ring.pg_vec) {
+		memset(&req, 0, sizeof(req));
 		packet_set_ring(sk, &req, 1, 1);
+	}

 	synchronize_net();
 	/*

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