> 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.

Thank you for your advice. I will learn how to use valgrind, and use it to
obtain more detailed checks.

> 
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