Re: [PATCH] netfilter: account ebt_table_info to kmemcg

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Sat Dec 29 2018 - 02:33:37 EST


On Fri 28-12-18 17:55:24, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The [ip,ip6,arp]_tables use x_tables_info internally and the underlying
> memory is already accounted to kmemcg. Do the same for ebtables. The
> syzbot, by using setsockopt(EBT_SO_SET_ENTRIES), was able to OOM the
> whole system from a restricted memcg, a potential DoS.

What is the lifetime of these objects? Are they bound to any process?

> Reported-by: syzbot+7713f3aa67be76b1552c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> index 491828713e0b..5e55cef0cec3 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> @@ -1137,14 +1137,16 @@ static int do_replace(struct net *net, const void __user *user,
> tmp.name[sizeof(tmp.name) - 1] = 0;
>
> countersize = COUNTER_OFFSET(tmp.nentries) * nr_cpu_ids;
> - newinfo = vmalloc(sizeof(*newinfo) + countersize);
> + newinfo = __vmalloc(sizeof(*newinfo) + countersize, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT,
> + PAGE_KERNEL);
> if (!newinfo)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> if (countersize)
> memset(newinfo->counters, 0, countersize);
>
> - newinfo->entries = vmalloc(tmp.entries_size);
> + newinfo->entries = __vmalloc(tmp.entries_size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT,
> + PAGE_KERNEL);
> if (!newinfo->entries) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto free_newinfo;
> --
> 2.20.1.415.g653613c723-goog
>

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs