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authorHoucheng Lin <houcheng@gmail.com>2014-10-23 10:36:08 +0200
committerLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>2014-11-14 15:20:04 +0000
commit7ef36feaddbf51e714216a12bfee58cf972371f8 (patch)
tree3af2cdecab8beca43cfcf777d9c8f4d299fb0005 /net
parent87f00629f2a554c98d5b9e62ccd84c452df7c78d (diff)
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netfilter: nf_log: release skbuff on nlmsg put failure
commit b51d3fa364885a2c1e1668f88776c67c95291820 upstream. The kernel should reserve enough room in the skb so that the DONE message can always be appended. However, in case of e.g. new attribute erronously not being size-accounted for, __nfulnl_send() will still try to put next nlmsg into this full skbuf, causing the skb to be stuck forever and blocking delivery of further messages. Fix issue by releasing skb immediately after nlmsg_put error and WARN() so we can track down the cause of such size mismatch. [ fw@strlen.de: add tailroom/len info to WARN ] Signed-off-by: Houcheng Lin <houcheng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c17
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
index 8f415d6889fe..dd9fb9de9f1d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -346,26 +346,25 @@ nfulnl_alloc_skb(struct net *net, u32 peer_portid, unsigned int inst_size,
return skb;
}
-static int
+static void
__nfulnl_send(struct nfulnl_instance *inst)
{
- int status = -1;
-
if (inst->qlen > 1) {
struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_put(inst->skb, 0, 0,
NLMSG_DONE,
sizeof(struct nfgenmsg),
0);
- if (!nlh)
+ if (WARN_ONCE(!nlh, "bad nlskb size: %u, tailroom %d\n",
+ inst->skb->len, skb_tailroom(inst->skb))) {
+ kfree_skb(inst->skb);
goto out;
+ }
}
- status = nfnetlink_unicast(inst->skb, inst->net, inst->peer_portid,
- MSG_DONTWAIT);
-
+ nfnetlink_unicast(inst->skb, inst->net, inst->peer_portid,
+ MSG_DONTWAIT);
+out:
inst->qlen = 0;
inst->skb = NULL;
-out:
- return status;
}
static void