Re: lost connection to test machine (3)

[Florian Westphal]

Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 7:18 PM, syzbot
> <syzbot+4396883fa8c4f64e0175@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzkaller hit the following crash on
> > beacbc68ac3e23821a681adb30b45dc55b17488d
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/master
> > compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620
> > .config is attached
> > Raw console output is attached.
> > C reproducer is attached
> > syzkaller reproducer is attached. See https://goo.gl/kgGztJ
> > for information about syzkaller reproducers
> >
> >
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> 
> +netfilter maintainers
> 
> Here is cleaned reproducer:
> 
> // autogenerated by syzkaller (http://github.com/google/syzkaller)
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <netinet/tcp.h>
> #include <linux/if.h>
> #include <linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>   int fd;
> 
>   fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP);
>   struct ipt_replace opt = {};
>   opt.num_counters = 1;
>   opt.size = -1;
>   setsockopt(fd, SOL_IP, 0x40, &opt, 0x4);
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> What happens there is that here:
> 
> struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_info(unsigned int size)
> {
>     ...
>     if ((SMP_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 2 > totalram_pages)
>         return NULL;
> 
> size = -1 and SMP_ALIGN(size) = 0, so this still tries to allocate
> 4GB+delta bytes.
> 
> I don't understand why this uses SMP_ALIGN since we add 2 pages on
> top, it seems that we could just drop SMP_ALIGN and local SMP_ALIGN
> definition altogether.

Looking at history.git this seems to be a left over from back when
iptables allocated size * num_cpus() (and used an SMP_ALIGN based offset
for each cpu).

So yes, I think we can just toss/drop this.