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| author | Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> | 2015-09-10 20:05:46 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <[email protected]> | 2015-09-11 14:36:49 -0700 |
| commit | 1853c949646005b5959c483becde86608f548f24 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ee10a97fd0d6a3c22340094f0dd211ef9da2fd1 /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | |
| parent | 64d1def7d33856824d2c5c6fd6d4579d4d54bb87 (diff) | |
netlink, mmap: transform mmap skb into full skb on taps
Ken-ichirou reported that running netlink in mmap mode for receive in
combination with nlmon will throw a NULL pointer dereference in
__kfree_skb() on nlmon_xmit(), in my case I can also trigger an "unable
to handle kernel paging request". The problem is the skb_clone() in
__netlink_deliver_tap_skb() for skbs that are mmaped.
I.e. the cloned skb doesn't have a destructor, whereas the mmap netlink
skb has it pointed to netlink_skb_destructor(), set in the handler
netlink_ring_setup_skb(). There, skb->head is being set to NULL, so
that in such cases, __kfree_skb() doesn't perform a skb_release_data()
via skb_release_all(), where skb->head is possibly being freed through
kfree(head) into slab allocator, although netlink mmap skb->head points
to the mmap buffer. Similarly, the same has to be done also for large
netlink skbs where the data area is vmalloced. Therefore, as discussed,
make a copy for these rather rare cases for now. This fixes the issue
on my and Ken-ichirou's test-cases.
Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/371129
Fixes: bcbde0d449ed ("net: netlink: virtual tap device management")
Reported-by: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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