netdev - Re: Simple kernel attack using socketpair. easy, 100% reproductiblle, works under guest. no way to protect :(

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Message-Id: <20101129.094628.39176431.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:46:28 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	socketpair@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Simple kernel attack using socketpair. easy, 100%
 reproductiblle, works under guest. no way to protect :(

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:11:39 +0100

> [PATCH] af_unix: limit recursion level
> 
> Its easy to eat all kernel memory and trigger NMI watchdog, using an
> exploit program that queues unix sockets on top of others.
> 
> lkml ref : http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8
> 
> This mechanism is used in applications, one choice we have is to have a
> recursion limit.
> 
> Other limits might be needed as well (if we queue other types of files),
> since the passfd mechanism is currently limited by socket receive queue
> sizes only.
> 
> Add a recursion_level to unix socket, allowing up to 4 levels.
> 
> Each time we send an unix socket through sendfd mechanism, we copy its
> recursion level (plus one) to receiver. This recursion level is cleared
> when socket receive queue is emptied.
> 
> Reported-by: Марк Коренберг <socketpair@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Ok, since such deep recursive AF_UNIX fd sends is pretty
rediculious, it seems this is not likely to hit legitimate
use cases and thus I've applied this.

Also queued up for -stable.

Thanks!
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