On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 01:11:03AM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> > On 01/23/2016 08:25 PM, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > >Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >[ CC nf-devel, not sure if its nfnetlink fault or NETLINK_MMAP ]
> > >
> > >>The following program causes GPF in netlink_getsockbyportid:
> [..]
> 
> > >CONFIG_NETLINK_MMAP and nfnetlink batching strike in unison :-/
> > >
> > >root cause is in nfnetlink_rcv_batch():
> > >
> > >296 replay:
> > >297         status = 0;
> > >298
> > >299         skb = netlink_skb_clone(oskb, GFP_KERNEL);
> > >
> > >The clone op doesn't copy oskb->sk, so we oops in
> > >__netlink_alloc_skb -> netlink_getsockbyportid() when nfnetlink_rcv_batch
> > >tries to send netlink ack.
> > 
> > If indeed oskb is the mmap'ed netlink skb, then it's not even allowed
> > to call into skb_clone()
> 
> Right, but in this case there is no mmap'd netlink sk involved -- we
> crash when we try to look up dst netlink socket to see if there is an
> mmap'd ring attached.
> 
> [ and that code isn't there with CONFIG_NETLINK_MMAP=n ].

Let's CC Pablo since he wrote the code in question.

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