On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 11:44:18 -0400
Andy Gospodarek <a...@greyhouse.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
> <bro...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Using bpf_redirect_map is allowed for generic XDP programs, but the
> > appropriate map lookup was never performed in xdp_do_generic_redirect().
> >
> > Instead the map-index is directly used as the ifindex. For the
> > xdp_redirect_map sample in SKB-mode '-S', this resulted in trying
> > sending on ifindex 0 which isn't valid, resulting in getting SKB
> > packets dropped. Thus, the reported performance numbers are wrong in
> > commit 24251c264798 ("samples/bpf: add option for native and skb mode
> > for redirect apps") for the 'xdp_redirect_map -S' case.
> >
> > It might seem innocent this was lacking, but it can actually crash the
> > kernel. The potential crash is caused by not consuming redirect_info->map.
> > The bpf_redirect_map helper will set this_cpu_ptr(&redirect_info)->map
> > pointer, which will survive even after unloading the xdp bpf_prog and
> > deallocating the devmap data-structure. This leaves a dead map
> > pointer around. The kernel will crash when loading the xdp_redirect
> > sample (in native XDP mode) as it doesn't reset map (via bpf_redirect)
> > and returns XDP_REDIRECT, which will cause it to dereference the map
> > pointer.
>
> Nice catch!
>
> Since 'net-next' is closed and this is a bugfix it seems like this is
> a good candidate for 'net' right?
Yes, I know 'net-next' is closed, but 'net' doesn't contain the
XDP_REDIRECT code yet... thus I had to base it on net-next ;-)
> >
> > Fixes: 6103aa96ec07 ("net: implement XDP_REDIRECT for xdp generic")
> > Fixes: 24251c264798 ("samples/bpf: add option for native and skb mode for
> > redirect apps")
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@redhat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <a...@greyhouse.net>
Thanks
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
