Re: [PATCH 1/4] netfilter: ipset: fix timeout value overflow bug
From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-14 21:45:14
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On Mon, 14 May 2012, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:45:07PM +0200, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:quoted
On Mon, 14 May 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote:quoted
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 16:36 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:quoted
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:19:49PM +0100, David Laight wrote:quoted
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--- a/include/linux/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_timeout.h +++ b/include/linux/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_timeout.h@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ ip_set_timeout_uget(struct nlattr *tb) { unsigned int timeout = ip_set_get_h32(tb); + /* Normalize to fit into jiffies */ + if (timeout > UINT_MAX/1000) + timeout = UINT_MAX/1000; +Doesn't that rather assume that HZ is 1000 ?Indeed. I overlooked that. Thanks David.I dont think so. 1000 here is really MSEC_PER_SEC (All occurrences should be changed in this file)Yes, exactly. Pablo, shall I produce a little patch or could you change 1000 to MSEC_PER_SEC?New patch attached. I have rebase my tree again.
Thanks Pablo, indeed! Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, kadlecsik.jozsef@wigner.mta.hu PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary