3.2.69-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b1cb59cf2efe7971d3d72a7b963d09a512d994c9 ] sysctl has sysctl.net.core.rmem_*/wmem_* parameters which can be set to incorrect values. Given that 'struct sk_buff' allocates from rcvbuf, incorrectly set buffer length could result to memory allocation failures. For example, set them as follows: # sysctl net.core.rmem_default=64 net.core.wmem_default = 64 # sysctl net.core.wmem_default=64 net.core.wmem_default = 64 # ping localhost -s 1024 -i 0 > /dev/null This could result to the following failure: skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffffffff81628db4 len:-32 put:-32 head:ffff88003a1cc200 data:ffff88003a1cc200 tail:0xffffffe0 end:0xc0 dev:<NULL> kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:102! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP ... task: ffff88003b7f5550 ti: ffff88003ae88000 task.ti: ffff88003ae88000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8155fbd1>] [<ffffffff8155fbd1>] skb_put+0xa1/0xb0 RSP: 0018:ffff88003ae8bc68 EFLAGS: 00010296 RAX: 000000000000008d RBX: 00000000ffffffe0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff88003fdcf598 RSI: ffff88003fdcd9c8 RDI: ffff88003fdcd9c8 RBP: ffff88003ae8bc88 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000000002b2 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88003d3f7300 R15: ffff88000012a900 FS: 00007fa0e2b4a840(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000d0f7e0 CR3: 000000003b8fb000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Stack: ffff88003a1cc200 00000000ffffffe0 00000000000000c0 ffffffff818cab1d ffff88003ae8bd68 ffffffff81628db4 ffff88003ae8bd48 ffff88003b7f5550 ffff880031a09408 ffff88003b7f5550 ffff88000012aa48 ffff88000012ab00 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81628db4>] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x2c4/0x470 [<ffffffff81556f56>] sock_write_iter+0x146/0x160 [<ffffffff811d9612>] new_sync_write+0x92/0xd0 [<ffffffff811d9cd6>] vfs_write+0xd6/0x180 [<ffffffff811da499>] SyS_write+0x59/0xd0 [<ffffffff81651532>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 Code: 00 00 48 89 44 24 10 8b 87 c8 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 08 48 8b 87 d8 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 30 db 91 81 48 89 04 24 31 c0 e8 4f a8 0e 00 <0f> 0b eb fe 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 RIP [<ffffffff8155fbd1>] skb_put+0xa1/0xb0 RSP <ffff88003ae8bc68> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Moreover, the possible minimum is 1, so we can get another kernel panic: ... BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88013caee5c0 IP: [<ffffffff815604cf>] __alloc_skb+0x12f/0x1f0 ... Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: delete now-unused 'one' variable] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c +++ b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ static int zero = 0; static int ushort_max = USHRT_MAX; - -static int one = 1; +static int min_sndbuf = SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF; +static int min_rcvbuf = SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF; #ifdef CONFIG_RPS static int rps_sock_flow_sysctl(ctl_table *table, int write, @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static struct ctl_table net_core_table[] .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, - .extra1 = &one, + .extra1 = &min_sndbuf, }, { .procname = "rmem_max", @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static struct ctl_table net_core_table[] .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, - .extra1 = &one, + .extra1 = &min_rcvbuf, }, { .procname = "wmem_default", @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static struct ctl_table net_core_table[] .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, - .extra1 = &one, + .extra1 = &min_sndbuf, }, { .procname = "rmem_default", @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static struct ctl_table net_core_table[] .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, - .extra1 = &one, + .extra1 = &min_rcvbuf, }, { .procname = "dev_weight", -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html