[Yakkety][Xenial][SRU][PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) xfrm: Ignore socket policies when rebuilding hash tables

Joseph Salisbury joseph.salisbury at canonical.com
Thu Aug 18 20:29:03 UTC 2016


From: Tobias Brunner <tobias at strongswan.org>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1613787

Whenever thresholds are changed the hash tables are rebuilt.  This is
done by enumerating all policies and hashing and inserting them into
the right table according to the thresholds and direction.

Because socket policies are also contained in net->xfrm.policy_all but
no hash tables are defined for their direction (dir + XFRM_POLICY_MAX)
this causes a NULL or invalid pointer dereference after returning from
policy_hash_bysel() if the rebuild is done while any socket policies
are installed.

Since the rebuild after changing thresholds is scheduled this crash
could even occur if the userland sets thresholds seemingly before
installing any socket policies.

Fixes: 53c2e285f970 ("xfrm: Do not hash socket policies")

Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index b5e665b..45f9cf9 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -626,6 +626,10 @@ static void xfrm_hash_rebuild(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	/* re-insert all policies by order of creation */
 	list_for_each_entry_reverse(policy, &net->xfrm.policy_all, walk.all) {
+		if (xfrm_policy_id2dir(policy->index) >= XFRM_POLICY_MAX) {
+			/* skip socket policies */
+			continue;
+		}
 		newpos = NULL;
 		chain = policy_hash_bysel(net, &policy->selector,
 					  policy->family,
-- 
2.7.4





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