Re: [PATCH] net: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in __skb_try_recv_datagram

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Jacob Siverskog
<jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> At this point corruption already happened.
>> We can not possibly detect every possible corruption caused by bugs
>> elsewhere in the kernel and just 'recover' at this point.
>> We must indeed find the root cause and fix it, instead of trying to hide it.
>>
>> How often can you trigger this bug ?
>
> Ok. I don't have a good repro to trigger it unfortunately, I've seen it just a
> few times when bringing up/down network interfaces. Does the trace
> give any clue?
>
> [<c02fc0a8>] (__skb_recv_datagram) from [<c0398f1c>] (udpv6_recvmsg+0x1d0/0x6d0)
> [<c0398f1c>] (udpv6_recvmsg) from [<c0367a2c>] (inet_recvmsg+0x38/0x4c)
> [<c0367a2c>] (inet_recvmsg) from [<c02efff4>] (___sys_recvmsg+0x94/0x170)
> [<c02efff4>] (___sys_recvmsg) from [<c02f0d74>] (__sys_recvmsg+0x3c/0x6c)
> [<c02f0d74>] (__sys_recvmsg) from [<c000f1e0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c)

Not really : it only shows the point where the corruption is detected,
not the point where the corruption happened.

This might be caused by a netfilter module, a buggy driver... it is
hard to know.

You might add some traces on the skb itself, like its length or/and content.
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