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Re: v4.16-rc1 misaligned atomics in skb__clone / __napi_alloc_skb

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2018-02-15 17:24:42
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:20 AM, Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:
Yes, it seems tun.c breaks the assumptions.

If it really wants to provide arbitrary fragments and alignments, it
should use a separate
Sorry, I have sent the message to soon.

tun.c should use a private 'struct page_frag_cache' to deliver
arbitrary frags/alignments,
so that syzkaller might catch interesting bugs in the stack.

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Please try :
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 81e6cc951e7fc7c983919365c34842c34bcaedcf..92c6b6d02f7c18b63c42ffe1d9cb7286975e1263
100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ static struct sk_buff
*tun_napi_alloc_frags(struct tun_file *tfile,
                }

                local_bh_disable();
-               data = napi_alloc_frag(fragsz);
+               data = napi_alloc_frag(SKB_DATA_ALIGN(fragsz));
                local_bh_enable();
                if (!data) {
                        err = -ENOMEM;
This patch should solve your immediate problem, but would lower fuzzer
abilities to find bugs.

I will send something more suited to original intent of these commits :

90e33d45940793def6f773b2d528e9f3c84ffdc7 tun: enable napi_gro_frags()
for TUN/TAP driver
943170998b200190f99d3fe7e771437e2c51f319 tun: enable NAPI for TUN/TAP driver
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