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

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 08:52:58 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sch_netem: fix a divide by zero in tabledist()



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


2*sigma becomes zero, and we have yet another issue in :

if (dist == NULL)
   return ((rnd % (2 * sigma)) + mu) - sigma;