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author | Michael Braun <michael-dev@fami-braun.de> | 2010-03-16 00:26:22 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-03-16 00:26:22 -0700 |
commit | 7f7708f0055e49e331f267700aa8b2ee879f004c (patch) | |
tree | 385da7d1b722232c3c9003af52079318aa51326e /net/bridge/br_input.c | |
parent | 0821ec55bb1382dd3b9476dc15d5dbbb19f0c3fd (diff) | |
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bridge: Fix br_forward crash in promiscuous mode
From: Michael Braun <michael-dev@fami-braun.de>
bridge: Fix br_forward crash in promiscuous mode
It's a linux-next kernel from 2010-03-12 on an x86 system and it
OOPs in the bridge module in br_pass_frame_up (called by
br_handle_frame_finish) because brdev cannot be dereferenced (its set to
a non-null value).
Adding some BUG_ON statements revealed that
BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->brdev == br-dev
(as set in br_handle_frame_finish first)
only holds until br_forward is called.
The next call to br_pass_frame_up then fails.
Digging deeper it seems that br_forward either frees the skb or passes
it to NF_HOOK which will in turn take care of freeing the skb. The
same is holds for br_pass_frame_ip. So it seems as if two independent
skb allocations are required. As far as I can see, commit
b33084be192ee1e347d98bb5c9e38a53d98d35e2 ("bridge: Avoid unnecessary
clone on forward path") removed skb duplication and so likely causes
this crash. This crash does not happen on 2.6.33.
I've therefore modified br_forward the same way br_flood has been
modified so that the skb is not freed if skb0 is going to be used
and I can confirm that the attached patch resolves the issue for me.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_input.c')
-rw-r--r-- | net/bridge/br_input.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c index 53b39851d87d..08a72e63fb8e 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_input.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ int br_handle_frame_finish(struct sk_buff *skb) if (skb) { if (dst) - br_forward(dst->dst, skb); + br_forward(dst->dst, skb, skb2); else br_flood_forward(br, skb, skb2); } |