linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.2.4

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1510252252460.14807@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Date:	Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:53:54 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
To:	Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@...singer.com>
cc:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, lwn@....net,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.2.4

On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:

> On 25.10.2015 21:08, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > On 25.10.2015 20:46, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On 25.10.2015 10:46, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > > > ipset *triggered* the problem. The whole stack dump would tell more.
> > > > OK, find the stack traces in the bug report:
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272645
> > > > 
> > > > Kernel 4.1.10 triggered also a kernel dump when playing with ipset
> > > > commands
> > > > and IPv6, details in the bug report  ....
> > > It seems to me it is an architecture-specific alignment issue. I don't
> > > have a Cortex-A7 ARM hardware and qemu doesn't seem to support it either,
> > > so I'm unable to reproduce it (ipset passes all my tests on my hardware,
> > > including more complex ones than what breaks here). My first wild guess is
> > > that the dynamic array of the element structure is not aligned properly.
> > > Could you give a try to the next patch?
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h
> > > b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h
> > > index afe905c..1cf357d 100644
> > > --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h
> > > +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h
> > > @@ -1211,6 +1211,9 @@ static const struct ip_set_type_variant
> > > mtype_variant = {
> > >       .same_set = mtype_same_set,
> > >   };
> > >   +#define IP_SET_BASE_ALIGN(dtype)    \
> > > +    ALIGN(sizeof(struct dtype), __alignof__(struct dtype))
> > > +
> > >   #ifdef IP_SET_EMIT_CREATE
> > >   static int
> > >   IPSET_TOKEN(HTYPE, _create)(struct net *net, struct ip_set *set,
> > > @@ -1319,12 +1322,12 @@ IPSET_TOKEN(HTYPE, _create)(struct net *net,
> > > struct ip_set *set,
> > >   #endif
> > >           set->variant = &IPSET_TOKEN(HTYPE, 4_variant);
> > >           set->dsize = ip_set_elem_len(set, tb,
> > > -                sizeof(struct IPSET_TOKEN(HTYPE, 4_elem)));
> > > +                IP_SET_BASE_ALIGN(IPSET_TOKEN(HTYPE, 4_elem)));
> > >   #ifndef IP_SET_PROTO_UNDEF
> > >       } else {
> > >           set->variant = &IPSET_TOKEN(HTYPE, 6_variant);
> > >           set->dsize = ip_set_elem_len(set, tb,
> > > -                sizeof(struct IPSET_TOKEN(HTYPE, 6_elem)));
> > > +                IP_SET_BASE_ALIGN(IPSET_TOKEN(HTYPE, 6_elem)));
> > >       }
> > >   #endif
> > >       if (tb[IPSET_ATTR_TIMEOUT]) {
> > > 
> > > If that does not solve it, then could you help to narrow down the issue?
> > > Does the bug still appear if your remove the counter extension of the set?
> > > 
>
> Thank you for the patch it but still  crashes, see:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272645
> 
> Any further ideas?

Does it crash without counters? That could narrow down where to look for.

Best regards,
Jozsef
-
E-mail  : kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu, kadlecsik.jozsef@...ner.mta.hu
PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt
Address : Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
          H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/