netdev - Re: [bug] __nf_ct_refresh_acct(): WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:30 __list

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: <4A3A67B5.1060909@netfilter.org>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:13:41 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] __nf_ct_refresh_acct(): WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:30
 __list_add+0x7d/0xad()

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> In my own analysis, I found death_by_timeout() might be problematic,
>> with RCU and lockless lookups.
>>
>> static void death_by_timeout(unsigned long ul_conntrack)
>> {
>>         struct nf_conn *ct = (void *)ul_conntrack;
>>
>>         if (!test_bit(IPS_DYING_BIT, &ct->status) &&
>>             unlikely(nf_conntrack_event(IPCT_DESTROY, ct) < 0)) {
>>                 /* destroy event was not delivered */
>>                 nf_ct_delete_from_lists(ct);
>> << HERE >>
>>
>>                 nf_ct_insert_dying_list(ct);
>>                 return;
>>         }
>>         set_bit(IPS_DYING_BIT, &ct->status);
>>         nf_ct_delete_from_lists(ct);
>>         nf_ct_put(ct);
>> }
>>
>>
>> We delete ct from a list and insert it in a new list.
>>
>> I believe a reader could "*catch*" ct while doing a lookup and miss
>> the end
>> of its chain. (nulls algo check the null value at the end of lookup
>> and can
>> decide to restart the lookup if the null value is not the expected one)
>>
>> We need to change nf_conntrack_init_net() and use a different "null"
>> value,
>> guaranteed not being used in regular lists
> 
> Good catch. This is a new bug, but it shouldn't matter in this case
> since nf_conntrack_event() can't fail unless you have a userspace
> listener that makes use of reliable delivery, which I think hasn't
> even been released yet.

Indeed. I didn't include user-space support for this yet in my tree, so
this should not be the problem. Thanks for the catch anyway!
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html