netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net] sctp: fix the issue that pathmtu may be set lower than MINSEGMENT

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Message-ID: <20180704022804.GE26991@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Tue, 3 Jul 2018 23:28:04 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        syzkaller@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net] sctp: fix the issue that pathmtu may be set lower
 than MINSEGMENT

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:30:47PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> After commit b6c5734db070 ("sctp: fix the handling of ICMP Frag Needed
> for too small MTUs"), sctp_transport_update_pmtu would refetch pathmtu
> from the dst and set it to transport's pathmtu without any check.
> 
> The new pathmtu may be lower than MINSEGMENT if the dst is obsolete and
> updated by .get_dst() in sctp_transport_update_pmtu. In this case, it
> could have a smaller MTU as well, and thus we should validate it
> against MINSEGMENT instead.
> 
> Syzbot reported a warning in sctp_mtu_payload caused by this.
> 
> This patch refetches the pathmtu by calling sctp_dst_mtu where it does
> the check against MINSEGMENT.
> 
> v1->v2:
>   - refetch the pathmtu by calling sctp_dst_mtu instead as Marcelo's
>     suggestion.
> 
> Fixes: b6c5734db070 ("sctp: fix the handling of ICMP Frag Needed for too small MTUs")
> Reported-by: syzbot+f0d9d7cba052f9344b03@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Suggested-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

> ---
>  net/sctp/transport.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/transport.c b/net/sctp/transport.c
> index 445b7ef..12cac85 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/transport.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/transport.c
> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ bool sctp_transport_update_pmtu(struct sctp_transport *t, u32 pmtu)
>  
>  	if (dst) {
>  		/* Re-fetch, as under layers may have a higher minimum size */
> -		pmtu = SCTP_TRUNC4(dst_mtu(dst));
> +		pmtu = sctp_dst_mtu(dst);
>  		change = t->pathmtu != pmtu;
>  	}
>  	t->pathmtu = pmtu;
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 
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