Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: fix flow actions reallocation

[Pravin Shelar]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 3:11 PM Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The flow action buffer can be resized if it's not big enough to contain
> all the requested flow actions. However, this resize doesn't take into
> account the new requested size, the buffer is only increased by a factor
> of 2x. This might be not enough to contain the new data, causing a
> buffer overflow, for example:
>
> [   42.044472] =============================================================================
> [   42.045608] BUG kmalloc-96 (Not tainted): Redzone overwritten
> [   42.046415] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [   42.047715] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> [   42.047716] INFO: 0x8bf2c4a5-0x720c0928. First byte 0x0 instead of 0xcc
> [   42.048677] INFO: Slab 0xbc6d2040 objects=29 used=18 fp=0xdc07dec4 flags=0x2808101
> [   42.049743] INFO: Object 0xd53a3464 @offset=2528 fp=0xccdcdebb
>
> [   42.050747] Redzone 76f1b237: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc                          ........
> [   42.051839] Object d53a3464: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 0c 00 00 00 6c 00 00 00  kkkkkkkk....l...
> [   42.053015] Object f49a30cc: 6c 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 78 a3 15 f6  l...........x...
> [   42.054203] Object acfe4220: 20 00 02 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ...............
> [   42.055370] Object 21024e91: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> [   42.056541] Object 070e04c3: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> [   42.057797] Object 948a777a: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> [   42.059061] Redzone 8bf2c4a5: 00 00 00 00                                      ....
> [   42.060189] Padding a681b46e: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                          ZZZZZZZZ
>
> Fix by making sure the new buffer is properly resized to contain all the
> requested data.
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813244
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This must be rare combination of action that trigger this case.

> ---
>  net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> index 691da853bef5..e6f789badaa3 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> @@ -2306,14 +2306,14 @@ static struct nlattr *reserve_sfa_size(struct sw_flow_actions **sfa,
>
>         struct sw_flow_actions *acts;
>         int new_acts_size;
> -       int req_size = NLA_ALIGN(attr_len);
> +       size_t req_size = NLA_ALIGN(attr_len);
>         int next_offset = offsetof(struct sw_flow_actions, actions) +
>                                         (*sfa)->actions_len;
>
>         if (req_size <= (ksize(*sfa) - next_offset))
>                 goto out;
>
> -       new_acts_size = ksize(*sfa) * 2;
> +       new_acts_size = max(req_size, ksize(*sfa) * 2);
>
Don't we need to compare current_action_size+req_size and
current_action_size*2 here ?

>         if (new_acts_size > MAX_ACTIONS_BUFSIZE) {
>                 if ((MAX_ACTIONS_BUFSIZE - next_offset) < req_size) {
> --
> 2.19.1
>