Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 3 authors, 2010-06-02

Re: [PATCH] cls_u32: use skb_copy_bits() to dereference data safely

From: Changli Gao <hidden>
Date: 2010-06-02 13:15:16

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:
From: jamal <redacted>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:25:38 -0400
quoted
--- a/net/sched/cls_u32.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_u32.c
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ next_knode:
 for (i = n->sel.nkeys; i>0; i--, key++) {

+        int toff = key->off+(off2&key->offmask)- 4;
+        if (unlikely(toff > skb->len))
+              /* bailout here - needs some thought */
         if ((*(__be32*)(ptr+key->off+(off2&key->offmask))^key->v
I don't think it's that simple.

You can't dereference from the skb->data linear area if your offset is
beyond "skb->len - skb->data_len" (aka. skb_headlen()) since that's
where the paged or fragmented portion starts.

We really need to use skb_copy_bits() if we want to allow
any offset into the SKB, and because of all the ways
packets can be transformed and constructed we absolutely
have to.
Maybe skb_header_pointer() is lighter.


-- 
Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@gmail.com)
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