linux-kernel - Re: net: suspicious RCU usage in nf

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]

Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2017 12:51:46 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: net: suspicious RCU usage in nf_hook

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 22:19 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>
>>
>> The context is process context (TX path before hitting qdisc), and
>> BH is not disabled, so in_interrupt() doesn't catch it. Hmm, this
>> makes me thinking maybe we really need to disable BH in this
>> case for nf_hook()? But it is called in RX path too, and BH is
>> already disabled there.
>
> ipt_do_table() and similar netfilter entry points disable BH.
>
> Maybe it is done too late.

I think we need a fix like the following one for minimum impact.

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 727b6fd..eee7d63 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1720,12 +1720,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_enable_timestamp);
 void net_disable_timestamp(void)
 {
 #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
-       if (in_interrupt()) {
-               atomic_inc(&netstamp_needed_deferred);
-               return;
-       }
-#endif
+       atomic_inc(&netstamp_needed_deferred);
+#else
        static_key_slow_dec(&netstamp_needed);
+#endif
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_disable_timestamp);