netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/1] openvswitch: fix infoleak in conntrack

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:44:14 +0800
From:   Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
To:     Xidong Wang <wangxidong_97@....com>
Cc:     Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/1] openvswitch: fix infoleak in conntrack

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:13 AM Xidong Wang <wangxidong_97@....com> wrote:
>
> From: xidongwang <wangxidong_97@....com>
>
> The stack object “zone_limit” has 3 members. In function
> ovs_ct_limit_get_default_limit(), the member "count" is
> not initialized and sent out via “nla_put_nohdr”.
>
> Signed-off-by: xidongwang <wangxidong_97@....com>
> ---
>  net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> index 4340f25..1b7820a 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> @@ -2020,6 +2020,7 @@ static int ovs_ct_limit_get_default_limit(struct ovs_ct_limit_info *info,
>  {
>         struct ovs_zone_limit zone_limit;
>         int err;
> +       memset(&zone_limit, 0, sizeof(zone_limit));
why not init zone.count == 0, instead of memset, because zone_id/limit
will be inited later.
memset uses more cpu cycles.
>         zone_limit.zone_id = OVS_ZONE_LIMIT_DEFAULT_ZONE;
>         zone_limit.limit = info->default_limit;
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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-- 
Best regards, Tonghao

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