netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: bpf: correctly handle errors in sk_attach

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Message-ID: <1410600293.25850.2.camel@localhost>
Date:	Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:24:53 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, ast@...mgrid.com, keescook@...omium.org,
	dborkman@...hat.com, spender@...ecurity.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bpf: correctly handle errors in sk_attach_filter()

On Sa, 2014-09-13 at 00:06 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Commit "net: bpf: make eBPF interpreter images read-only" has changed bpf_prog
> to be vmalloc()ed but never handled some of the errors paths of the old code.
> 
> On error within sk_attach_filter (which userspace can easily trigger), we'd
> kfree() the vmalloc()ed memory, and leak the internal bpf_work_struct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>

Yeah, thanks, we missed that somehow.

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Bye,
Hannes


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