netdev - Re: [RFC] net: remove erroneous sk null assignment in timestamping

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 for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:53:10 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, richardcochran@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: remove erroneous sk null assignment in timestamping

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:47 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> I'm afraid as is this is terminally broken. I don't have a device with a
> dp83640 PHY, but I bet you can cause kernel crashes by doing something
> like
> 
> while (1)
> 	fd = open()
> 	enable tx timestamping on fd;
> 	send(fd, frame)
> 	close(fd);

It's possible that it doesn't crash *if* (and only if!) the ethernet
driver is guaranteed to process the TXTS RX packet before freeing the
original SKB off the TX queue, and also never orphans or whatever the
original TX SKB. In that case the original TX SKB will hang on to the
socket for long enough I guess.

But that's not something I'd want to rely on. All it means that the
above code isn't an instant kernel crash. The code is still broken.

johannes

--
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