linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 216/221] net: make skb_gso_segment error handling more robust

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Date:	Tue, 05 May 2015 02:16:39 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Brad Spengler" <spender@...ecurity.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Florian Westphal" <fw@...len.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 216/221] net: make skb_gso_segment error handling more
 robust

3.2.69-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

commit 330966e501ffe282d7184fde4518d5e0c24bc7f8 upstream.

skb_gso_segment has three possible return values:
1. a pointer to the first segmented skb
2. an errno value (IS_ERR())
3. NULL.  This can happen when GSO is used for header verification.

However, several callers currently test IS_ERR instead of IS_ERR_OR_NULL
and would oops when NULL is returned.

Note that these call sites should never actually see such a NULL return
value; all callers mask out the GSO bits in the feature argument.

However, there have been issues with some protocol handlers erronously not
respecting the specified feature mask in some cases.

It is preferable to get 'have to turn off hw offloading, else slow' reports
rather than 'kernel crashes'.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
[Brad Spengler: backported to 3.2]
Signed-off-by: Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ int nf_queue(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	 * returned by nf_queue.  For instance, callers rely on -ECANCELED to mean
 	 * 'ignore this hook'.
 	 */
-	if (IS_ERR(segs))
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(segs))
 		return -EINVAL;

 	queued = 0;
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_output.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_output.c
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ static int xfrm_output_gso(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	kfree_skb(skb);
 	if (IS_ERR(segs))
 		return PTR_ERR(segs);
+	if (segs == NULL)
+		return -EINVAL;

 	do {
 		struct sk_buff *nskb = segs->next;

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