netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sch_netem: fix a divide by zero in tabledist()

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 08:54:45 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sch_netem: fix a divide by zero in tabledist()

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 8:53 AM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
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> On 9/20/19 7:15 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 08:05:39 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >> syzbot managed to crash the kernel in tabledist() loading
> >> an empty distribution table.
> >>
> >>      t = dist->table[rnd % dist->size];
> >>
> >> Simply return an error when such load is attempted.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> >> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
> >
> > Applied, queued, thank you!
> >
>
> Note that another divide by zero seems possible in the same function,
> if sigma = 0x8000000

I meant 0x80000000  here (aka 2^31 )

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> 2*sigma becomes zero, and we have yet another issue in :
>
> if (dist == NULL)
>    return ((rnd % (2 * sigma)) + mu) - sigma;
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>