From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: s-nazarov@yandex.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NETWORKING: avoid use IPCB in cipso_v4_error
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:02:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhQK6Cmcx5kwYAPipR4YGyBHdkLEe3UH+VmNYGHu4PWqjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190214.084343.1138362153341500718.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:43 AM David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Nazarov Sergey <s-nazarov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:10:03 +0300
>
> > Since cipso_v4_error might be called from different network stack layers, we can't safely use icmp_send there.
> > icmp_send copies IP options with ip_option_echo, which uses IPCB to take access to IP header compiled data.
> > But after commit 971f10ec ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses"), IPCB can't be used
> > above IP layer.
> > This patch fixes the problem by creating in cipso_v4_error a local copy of compiled IP options and using it with
> > introduced __icmp_send function. This looks some overloaded, but in quite rare error conditions only.
> >
> > The original discussion is here:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/16659801547571984@sas1-890ba5c2334a.qloud-c.yandex.net/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Nazarov <s-nazarov@yandex.ru>
>
> This problem is not unique to Cipso, net/atm/clip.c's error handler
> has the same exact issue.
>
> I didn't scan more of the tree, there are probably a couple more
> locations as well.
David, are you happy with Sergey's solution as a fix for this?
If so, would you prefer a respin of this patch to apply the to the
other broken callers (e.g. net/atm/clip.c), or would you rather merge
this patch and deal with the other callers in separate patches?
--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-15 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-15 17:06 Kernel memory corruption in CIPSO labeled TCP packets processing Nazarov Sergey
2019-01-15 17:55 ` Casey Schaufler
2019-01-15 19:52 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-18 14:53 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-18 16:34 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-01-18 17:17 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-21 17:11 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-01-22 16:49 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-22 17:35 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-01-22 17:48 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-24 14:46 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-01-25 16:45 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-28 13:10 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-01-28 22:18 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-29 7:23 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-01-29 22:42 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-30 13:11 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-01-31 2:10 ` Paul Moore
2019-01-31 13:20 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-11 20:37 ` Paul Moore
2019-02-11 21:21 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-11 23:43 ` Paul Moore
2019-02-12 15:10 ` [PATCH] NETWORKING: avoid use IPCB in cipso_v4_error Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-13 21:41 ` Paul Moore
2019-02-14 18:00 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-14 18:59 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-02-14 16:43 ` David Miller
2019-02-14 18:14 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-15 19:02 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2019-02-15 20:00 ` David Miller
2019-02-15 20:04 ` Paul Moore
2019-02-18 13:39 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-19 1:25 ` David Miller
2019-02-22 16:35 ` Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-22 17:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-25 1:33 ` David Miller
2019-02-25 16:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-25 22:07 ` Paul Moore
2019-02-25 22:33 ` David Miller
2019-02-25 23:30 ` Paul Moore
2019-02-25 16:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] " Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-25 22:06 ` Paul Moore
2019-02-25 22:34 ` David Miller
2019-02-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-22 17:50 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] " Nazarov Sergey
2019-02-25 1:33 ` [PATCH] " David Miller
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