On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 04:19:11PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 09:57:32AM +0200, Tobias Brunner wrote:
> > Whenever thresholds are changed the hash tables are rebuilt. This is
> > done by enumerating all policies and hashing and inserting them into
> > the right table according to the thresholds and direction.
> >
> > Because socket policies are also contained in net->xfrm.policy_all but
> > no hash tables are defined for their direction (dir + XFRM_POLICY_MAX)
> > this causes a NULL or invalid pointer dereference after returning from
> > policy_hash_bysel() if the rebuild is done while any socket policies
> > are installed.
> >
> > Since the rebuild after changing thresholds is scheduled this crash
> > could even occur if the userland sets thresholds seemingly before
> > installing any socket policies.
> >
> > Fixes: 53c2e285f970 ("xfrm: Do not hash socket policies")
> > Signed-off-by: Tobias Brunner <tob...@strongswan.org>
>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied to the ipsec tree, thanks a lot Tobias!
