[natty CVE 1/1] bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Mon Jun 6 10:35:23 UTC 2011
From: Phil Oester <kernel at linuxace.com>
When packets come in from a device with >= 16 receive queues
headed out a bonding interface, syslog gets filled with this:
kernel: bond0 selects TX queue 16, but real number of TX queues is 16
because queue_mapping is offset by 1. Adjust return value
to account for the offset.
This is a revision of my earlier patch (which did not use the
skb_rx_queue_* helpers - thanks to Ben for the suggestion).
Andy submitted a similar patch which emits a pr_warning on
invalid queue selection, but I believe the log spew is
not useful. We can revisit that question in the future,
but in the interim I believe fixing the core problem is
worthwhile.
Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel at linuxace.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy at greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit fd0e435b0fe85622f167b84432552885a4856ac8)
CVE-2011-1581
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/792312
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 163e0b0..e68eaef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4537,11 +4537,18 @@ static u16 bond_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
/*
* This helper function exists to help dev_pick_tx get the correct
- * destination queue. Using a helper function skips the a call to
+ * destination queue. Using a helper function skips a call to
* skb_tx_hash and will put the skbs in the queue we expect on their
* way down to the bonding driver.
*/
- return skb->queue_mapping;
+ u16 txq = skb_rx_queue_recorded(skb) ? skb_get_rx_queue(skb) : 0;
+
+ if (unlikely(txq >= dev->real_num_tx_queues)) {
+ do
+ txq -= dev->real_num_tx_queues;
+ while (txq >= dev->real_num_tx_queues);
+ }
+ return txq;
}
static netdev_tx_t bond_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
--
1.7.4.1
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