Re: Possible netfilter-related memory corruption in 2.6.37

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Le lundi 14 fÃvrier 2011 Ã 17:24 +0100, Patrick McHardy a Ãcrit :
> Am 14.02.2011 16:50, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> > Le lundi 14 fÃvrier 2011 Ã 16:18 +0100, Jan Engelhardt a Ãcrit :
> >> On Monday 2011-02-14 16:11, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >>
> >>> Le lundi 14 fÃvrier 2011 Ã 16:58 +0200, Avi Kivity a Ãcrit :
> >>>> We see severe memory corruption in kvm while used in conjunction with 
> >>>> bridge/netfilter.  Enabling slab debugging points the finger at a 
> >>>> netfilter chain invoked from the bridge code.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can someone take a look?
> >>>>
> >>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27052
> >>
> >> Maybe looks familiar to https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/3/147
> > 
> > Are you sure Jan ?
> > 
> > IMHO it looks like in your case, a NULL ->hook() is called, from
> > nf_iterate()
> > 
> > BTW, list_for_each_continue_rcu() really should be converted to 
> > list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu()
> > 
> > This is a bit ugly :
> > 
> > list_for_each_continue_rcu(*i, head) {
> > 	struct nf_hook_ops *elem = (struct nf_hook_ops *)*i;
> > 
> > Also, I wonder if RCU rules are respected in nf_iterate().
> > For example this line is really suspicious :
> > 
> > *i = (*i)->prev;
> 
> Yeah, that definitely looks wrong. How about this instead?
> 

This patch seems fine to me, thanks !

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>



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