ip_set_hash_netiface

From: Daniel Xu
Date: Tue Oct 25 2022 - 02:20:57 EST


Hi Pablo,

I'm following up with our hallway chat yesterday about how ipset
hash:net,iface can easily OOM.

Here's a quick reproducer (stolen from
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199107):

$ ipset create ACL.IN.ALL_PERMIT hash:net,iface hashsize 1048576 timeout 0
$ for i in $(seq 0 100); do /sbin/ipset add ACL.IN.ALL_PERMIT 0.0.0.0/0,kaf_$i timeout 0 -exist; done

This used to cause a NULL ptr deref panic before
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2b33d6ffa9e38f344418976b06 .

Now it'll either allocate a huge amount of memory or fail a
vmalloc():

[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ipset: vmalloc error: size 1073741848, exceeds total pages
<...>
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] Call Trace:
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] <TASK>
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x60
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] warn_alloc+0x155/0x180
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] __vmalloc_node_range+0x72a/0x760
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ? hash_netiface4_add+0x7c0/0xb20
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ? __kmalloc_large_node+0x4a/0x90
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] kvmalloc_node+0xa6/0xd0
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ? hash_netiface4_resize+0x99/0x710
<...>

Note that this behavior is somewhat documented
(https://ipset.netfilter.org/ipset.man.html):

> The internal restriction of the hash:net,iface set type is that the same
> network prefix cannot be stored with more than 64 different interfaces
> in a single set.

I'm not sure how hard it would be to enforce a limit, but I think it would
be a bit better to error than allocate many GBs of memory.

Thanks,
Daniel