On Sat, 4 May 2019 15:26:25 +0800
Zhiqiang Liu <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Zhiqiang Liu <[email protected]>
> 
> Follow the following steps:
> # ip netns add net1
> # export MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=0
> # ip netns list
> then Segmentation fault (core dumped) will occur.
> 
> In get_netnsid_from_name func, answer is freed before 
> rta_getattr_u32(tb[NETNSA_NSID]),
> where tb[] refers to answer`s content. If we set MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=0, 
> mmap will
> be adoped to malloc memory, which will be freed immediately after calling 
> free func.
> So reading tb[NETNSA_NSID] will access the released memory after free(answer).
> 
> Here, we will call get_netnsid_from_name(tb[NETNSA_NSID]) before free(answer).
> 
> Fixes: 86bf43c7c2f ("lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to support malloc buff 
> at run time")
> Reported-by: Huiying Kou <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Phil Sutter <[email protected]>

Applied. You can get better and more detailed checks by running with
valgrind. Which is what I did after applying your patch.

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