linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bridge: missing null bridge device check causing null pointer dereference (bugfix)

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Date:	Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:07:19 +0900
From:	Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	Su-Hyun Park <suhyun.park@...lab.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: missing null bridge device check causing null
 pointer dereference (bugfix)

On 2014/11/06 15:26, Su-Hyun Park wrote:
> the bridge device can be null if the bridge is being deleted while processing 
> the packet, which causes the null pointer dereference in switch statement.

How can this happen??
It is guarded by rcu.
netdev_rx_handler_unregister() ensures rx_handler_data is non NULL.

Thanks,
Toshiaki Makita

> 
> crash dump snippet:
> 
> <1>BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000021
> <1>IP: [<ffffffff814179f6>] br_handle_frame+0xe6/0x270
> 
> <0>Code: 4c 0f 44 f0 89 f8 66 33 15 32 52 24 00 66 33 05 29 52 24 00 09 c2 89 
> f0 66 33 05 22 52 24 00 80 e4 f0 66 09 c2 0f 84 eb 00 00 00 <41> 0f b6 46 21 
> 3c 02 74 61 3c 03 74 1d 48 89 df e8 d5 bc f0 ff
> ---
>  net/bridge/br_input.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c
> index 6fd5522..7e899ca 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_input.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c
> @@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ rx_handler_result_t br_handle_frame(struct sk_buff **pskb)
>  		return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED;
>  
>  	p = br_port_get_rcu(skb->dev);
> +	if (!p)
> +		goto drop;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(is_link_local_ether_addr(dest))) {
>  		u16 fwd_mask = p->br->group_fwd_mask_required;
> 

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