[PATCH net-next v1 0/5] Some pktgen fixes/improvments
From: Peter Seiderer
Date: Fri Jan 17 2025 - 09:17:05 EST
While taking a look at '[PATCH net] pktgen: Avoid out-of-range in
get_imix_entries' ([1]) and '[PATCH net v2] pktgen: Avoid out-of-bounds access
in get_imix_entries' ([2], [3]) and doing some tests and code review I
detected that the /proc/net/pktgen/... parsing logic does not honour the
user given buffer bounds (resulting in out-of-bounds access).
This can be observed e.g. by the following simple test (sometimes the
old/'longer' previous value is re-read from the buffer):
$ echo add_device lo@0 > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
$ echo "min_pkt_size 12345" > /proc/net/pktgen/lo\@0 && grep min_pkt_size /proc/net/pktgen/lo\@0
Params: count 1000 min_pkt_size: 12345 max_pkt_size: 0
Result: OK: min_pkt_size=12345
$ echo -n "min_pkt_size 123" > /proc/net/pktgen/lo\@0 && grep min_pkt_size /proc/net/pktgen/lo\@0
Params: count 1000 min_pkt_size: 12345 max_pkt_size: 0
Result: OK: min_pkt_size=12345
$ echo "min_pkt_size 123" > /proc/net/pktgen/lo\@0 && grep min_pkt_size /proc/net/pktgen/lo\@0
Params: count 1000 min_pkt_size: 123 max_pkt_size: 0
Result: OK: min_pkt_size=123
So fix the out-of-bounds access (and two minor findings) and add a simple
proc_net_pktgen selftest...
Regards,
Peter
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241006221221.3744995-1-artem.chernyshev@xxxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250109083039.14004-1-pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx/
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=76201b5979768500bca362871db66d77cb4c225e
Peter Seiderer (5):
net: pktgen: replace ENOTSUPP with EOPNOTSUPP
net: pktgen: enable 'param=value' parsing
net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in
pktgen_thread_write()
net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in
pktgen_if_write()
selftest: net: add proc_net_pktgen
net/core/pktgen.c | 210 ++++---
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/proc_net_pktgen.c | 575 ++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 712 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/proc_net_pktgen.c
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