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Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:32:11 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfq: fix sfq stats handling

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 07:14:59AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> David, since this one fixes a bug, could you apply it before the pending
> SFQ patch (sch_sfq: allow big packets and be fair), I'll respin this one
> if necessary.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfq: fix sfq class stats handling
> 
> sfq_walk() runs without qdisc lock. By the time it selects a non empty
> hash slot and sfq_dump_class_stats() is run (with lock held), slot might
> have been freed : We then access q->slots[SFQ_EMPTY_SLOT], out of
> bounds, and crash in slot_queue_walk()
> 
> On previous kernels, bug is here but out of bounds qs[SFQ_DEPTH] and
> allot[SFQ_DEPTH] are located in struct sfq_sched_data, so no illegal
> memory access happens, only possibly wrong data reported to user.

Yes, nice catch!

> Also, slot_dequeue_tail() should make sure slot skb chain is correctly
> terminated, or sfq_dump_class_stats() can access freed skbs.

...and a good hint for code reusing ;-)

Thanks,
Jarek P.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/sched/sch_sfq.c |   16 +++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_sfq.c b/net/sched/sch_sfq.c
> index 13322e8..6a2f88f 100644
> --- a/net/sched/sch_sfq.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_sfq.c
> @@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *slot_dequeue_tail(struct sfq_slot *slot)
>  	struct sk_buff *skb = slot->skblist_prev;
>  
>  	slot->skblist_prev = skb->prev;
> +	skb->prev->next = (struct sk_buff *)slot;
>  	skb->next = skb->prev = NULL;
>  	return skb;
>  }
> @@ -608,14 +609,19 @@ static int sfq_dump_class_stats(struct Qdisc *sch, unsigned long cl,
>  				struct gnet_dump *d)
>  {
>  	struct sfq_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
> -	const struct sfq_slot *slot = &q->slots[q->ht[cl - 1]];
> -	struct gnet_stats_queue qs = { .qlen = slot->qlen };
> -	struct tc_sfq_xstats xstats = { .allot = slot->allot };
> +	sfq_index idx = q->ht[cl - 1];
> +	struct gnet_stats_queue qs = { 0 };
> +	struct tc_sfq_xstats xstats = { 0 };
>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
>  
> -	slot_queue_walk(slot, skb)
> -		qs.backlog += qdisc_pkt_len(skb);
> +	if (idx != SFQ_EMPTY_SLOT) {
> +		const struct sfq_slot *slot = &q->slots[idx];
>  
> +		xstats.allot = slot->allot;
> +		qs.qlen = slot->qlen;
> +		slot_queue_walk(slot, skb)
> +			qs.backlog += qdisc_pkt_len(skb);
> +	}
>  	if (gnet_stats_copy_queue(d, &qs) < 0)
>  		return -1;
>  	return gnet_stats_copy_app(d, &xstats, sizeof(xstats));
> 
> 
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