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From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team•ru>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:08:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <559FD1E0.40909@yandex-team.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436536187.24939.50.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 10.07.2015 16:49, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 14:51 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>> This fixes race between non-atomic updates of adjacent bit-fields:
>> skb->cloned could be lost because netlink broadcast clones skb after
>> sending it to the first listener who sets skb->peeked at the same skb.
>> As a result atomic refcounting of skb header stays disabled and
>> skb_release_data() frees it twice. Race leads to double-free in kmalloc-xxx.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team•ru>
>> Fixes: b19372273164 ("net: reorganize sk_buff for faster __copy_skb_header()")
>> ---
>>   net/netlink/af_netlink.c |    6 ++++++
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
>> index dea925388a5b..921e0d8dfe3a 100644
>> --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
>> +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
>> @@ -2028,6 +2028,12 @@ int netlink_broadcast_filtered(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid
>>   	info.tx_filter = filter;
>>   	info.tx_data = filter_data;
>>
>> +	/* Enable atomic refcounting in skb_release_data() before first send:
>> +	 * non-atomic set of that bit-field in __skb_clone() could race with
>> +	 * __skb_recv_datagram() which touches the same set of bit-fields.
>> +	 */
>> +	skb->cloned = 1;
>> +
>>   	/* While we sleep in clone, do not allow to change socket list */
>>
>>   	netlink_lock_table();
>
> Wow, this is tricky.
>
> I wonder how you found this bug ????

In some setups race happens quite often: once or twice per hour.
I guess the main trigger was the openvswitch which generates a
lot of netlink traffic. Though debugging was a real pain.

>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>
>
>
>


-- 
Konstantin

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-10 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-10 11:51 [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-10 13:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-10 14:08   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov [this message]
2015-07-13  7:23 ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-13  8:04   ` net: Clone skb before setting peeked flag Herbert Xu
2015-07-15 23:13     ` David Miller
2015-07-13  8:05   ` [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast Eric Dumazet
2015-07-13  8:10     ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-13  8:22       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-13  8:25         ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-13  8:28           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-13  8:31             ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-13 12:01               ` net: Fix skb csum races when peeking Herbert Xu
2015-07-13 14:25                 ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-14  6:11                 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-15 23:14                 ` David Miller
2015-07-13  8:54   ` [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-13  9:04     ` Herbert Xu

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