Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 4 authors, 2017-09-01

Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] flow_dissector: Add limits for encapsulation and EH

From: Simon Horman <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-01 12:22:49

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 03:22:39PM -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
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In flow dissector there are no limits to the number of nested
encapsulations that might be dissected which makes for a nice DOS
attack. This patch limits for dissecting nested encapsulations
as well as for dissecting over extension headers.

Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <redacted>
---
 net/core/flow_dissector.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/flow_dissector.c b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
index 5110180a3e96..1bca748de27d 100644
--- a/net/core/flow_dissector.c
+++ b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
@@ -396,6 +396,35 @@ __skb_flow_dissect_ipv6(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 	key_ip->ttl = iph->hop_limit;
 }
 
+/* Maximum number of nested encapsulations that can be processed in
+ * __skb_flow_dissect
+ */
+#define MAX_FLOW_DISSECT_ENCAPS	5
+
+static bool skb_flow_dissect_encap_allowed(int *num_encaps, unsigned int *flags)
+{
+	++*num_encaps;
+
+	if (*num_encaps >= MAX_FLOW_DISSECT_ENCAPS) {
+		if (*num_encaps == MAX_FLOW_DISSECT_ENCAPS) {
+			/* Allow one more pass but ignore disregard
It seems that 'ignore' or 'disregard' should be dropped from the text above.
+			 * further encapsulations
+			 */
+			*flags |= FLOW_DISSECTOR_F_STOP_AT_ENCAP;
+		} else {
+			/* Max encaps reached */
+			return  false;
There are two spaces between 'return' and 'false'.

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