Thread (22 messages) flat view 22 messages, 5 authors, 2011-06-07

Re: bridge/netfilter: regression in 2.6.39.1

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: 2011-06-06 11:15:27
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 09:21:06PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
Hello,

I'm getting a oops in the bridge code in br_change_mtu() with
2.6.39.1. The patch below seems to fix that.

I'm not sure about the usage of dst_cow_metrics_generic() in
fake_dst_ops, but after having a quick look at it seems to be ok to
use that here.

Regards,

Alexander
How did the flags of the dst entry on which we're callnig dst_entry_write_ptr
wind up getting the  READ_ONLY flag set on it?  I don't see how we'er falling
into that clause in which we call cow_metrics when we call dst_metric_set.  It
seems like that flag is set erroneously.  perhaps we should just update
fake_rtable.dst to have the correct flags?
Neil
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From 3c1d5951af73389798afeea672ec224e195b8e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Holler <redacted>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 20:43:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bridge: add dst_cow_metrics_generic to fake_dst_ops

Commit 42923465fb8d025a2b5153f2e7ab1e6e1058bf00 does here what it
should prevent, it introduces NULL a dereference.

The above commit uses dst_init_metrics() which sets the metrics as
read only. As result br_change_mtu() dies in dst_metric_set()
which calls dst_metrics_write_ptr() which calls
dst->ops->cow_metrics() if the metrics are read only.
---
 net/bridge/br_netfilter.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
index 5f9c091..de982a1 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ static void fake_update_pmtu(struct dst_entry
*dst, u32 mtu)
 static struct dst_ops fake_dst_ops = {
        .family =               AF_INET,
        .protocol =             cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_IP),
+       .cow_metrics =          dst_cow_metrics_generic,
        .update_pmtu =          fake_update_pmtu,
 };

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