Re: [PATCH] net: cgroup: fix out of bounds accesses

[Neil Horman]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:45:10AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> dev->priomap is allocated by extend_netdev_table() called from
> update_netdev_tables().
> And this is only called if write_priomap() is called.
> 
> But if write_priomap() is not called, it seems we can have out of bounds
> accesses in cgrp_destroy(), read_priomap() & skb_update_prio()
> 
> With help from Gao Feng
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/core/dev.c            |    8 ++++++--
> net/core/netprio_cgroup.c |    4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Thank you for doing this Eric, Gao.  Just to be sure (I asked in the previous
thread), would it be better to avoid the length check in skb_update_prio, and
instead update the netdev tables to be long enough in cgrp_create and in
netprio_device_event on device registration?

Neil

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