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net: ipv4: tcp_offload: check segs for NULL

Message ID 1481791661-21670-1-git-send-email-shakya.das@samsung.com
State Rejected, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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shakya.das@samsung.com Dec. 15, 2016, 8:47 a.m. UTC
From: Shakya Sundar Das <shakya.das@samsung.com>

This patch will check segs for being NULL in tcp_gso_segment()
before calling skb_shinfo(segs) from skb_is_gso(segs), otherwise
kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Shakya Sundar Das <shakya.das@samsung.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Tobias Klauser Dec. 15, 2016, 1:43 p.m. UTC | #1
On 2016-12-15 at 09:47:41 +0100, shakya.das@samsung.com <shakya.das@samsung.com> wrote:
> From: Shakya Sundar Das <shakya.das@samsung.com>
> 
> This patch will check segs for being NULL in tcp_gso_segment()
> before calling skb_shinfo(segs) from skb_is_gso(segs), otherwise
> kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference.

How can segs ever be NULL here? skb_segment() will always either return
an skb or an ERR_PTR(err).
Eric Dumazet Dec. 16, 2016, 3:28 a.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 14:17 +0530, shakya.das@samsung.com wrote:
> From: Shakya Sundar Das <shakya.das@samsung.com>
> 
> This patch will check segs for being NULL in tcp_gso_segment()
> before calling skb_shinfo(segs) from skb_is_gso(segs), otherwise
> kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakya Sundar Das <shakya.das@samsung.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
> index bc68da3..93feefd 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	skb->ooo_okay = 0;
>  
>  	segs = skb_segment(skb, features);
> -	if (IS_ERR(segs))
> +	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(segs))
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	/* Only first segment might have ooo_okay set */

I do not see how this can ever happen.

How did you come up with this patch exactly ???
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
index bc68da3..93feefd 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@  struct sk_buff *tcp_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	skb->ooo_okay = 0;
 
 	segs = skb_segment(skb, features);
-	if (IS_ERR(segs))
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(segs))
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Only first segment might have ooo_okay set */