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Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2023 13:15:24 +0300
From:   Даниил Максимов 
        <daniil31415it@...il.com>
To:     Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@...vell.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>,
        Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, lvc-project@...uxtesting.org,
        Egor Pomozov <epomozov@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] [PATCH] net: atlantic: Fix NULL dereference of skb pointer in

I am sorry for breaking the mailing list and sending my answer only to
Igor, I've never used emails that much. To make it clear, the answer
was: "Hi Igor! No, it hasn't been reproduced in reality because I
don't have any appropriate device."


пн, 4 дек. 2023 г. в 19:06, Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@...vell.com>:
>
>
> Hi Daniil,
>
> > If is_ptp_ring == true in the loop of __aq_ring_xdp_clean function,
> > then a timestamp is stored from a packet in a field of skb object,
> > which is not allocated at the moment of the call (skb == NULL).
> >
> > Generalize aq_ptp_extract_ts and other affected functions so they don't
> > work with struct sk_buff*, but with struct skb_shared_hwtstamps*.
> >
> > Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE
>
> Thanks for finding this and working on this.
>
> Have you reproduced it in wild, or this just comes out of static analysis?
>
> I'm asking because looking into the flow you described - it looks like XDP
> mode should immediately fail with null pointer access on any rx traffic.
> But that was never reported.
>
> I will try to debug and validate the fix, but this may take some time.
>
> So for now
>
> Reviewed-by: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@...vell.com>
>
>
> Thanks
>   Igor