NAK: [SRU] [X/B/C/D] [PATCH 0/1] openvswitch: fix kernel buffer overflow

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Tue Apr 23 06:37:00 UTC 2019


On 4/1/19 4:36 PM, Andrea Righi wrote:
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813244
> 
> [Impact]
> 
>  * Flow action buffer can be incorrectly resized to contain the newly added
>    action entries: the buffer is always resized multiplying the previous size
>    by 2, but this might be not enough if the requested size is bigger than
>    previous_size*2, causing a buffer overflow
> 
>  * The fix correctly resizes the buffer to prevent the buffer overflow
> 
>  * This bug can be triggered potentially on any architecture, but it is very
>    likely to happen on i386 running the following test case
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
>  * run this openvswitch test case:
>    https://launchpadlibrarian.net/416589265/lp1262692
> 
> [Fix]
> 
>  * Instead of resizing the buffer by a factor of 2, use
>    max(current_size * 2, current_size + requested_size)
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> 
>  * Fix has been tested on the affected platform and verified using slub_debug.
>    The patch has been queued up for -stable by David Miller, it will be
>    included upstream for the next merge window. It is also a very small patch
>    (one-liner basically), so backport changes are minimal.
> 
> Andrea Righi (1):
>  UBUNTU: SAUCE: openvswitch: fix flow actions reallocation
> 
>  net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> 


This patch has been re-submitted and already applied, so I'm NAK'ing it.

Thank you,
Kleber



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