Re: Broken commit: [NETFILTER]: ipt_REJECT: remove largely duplicateroute_reverse function

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Tue Nov 28 2006 - 16:46:17 EST


Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>How sure are you about this? I can see nothing wrong with that
>>commit and can't reproduce the slab corruption. Please post
>>the rule that triggers this.
>
>
> 99% sure. Past this commit I get corruptions after 5 minutes at most
> (that's ADSL with USB Thomson/Alcatel Speedtouch -> PPP over ATM,
> with a GRE tunnel over that PPP).

It might be the case that your network device has a
hard_header_len > LL_MAX_HEADER, which could trigger
a corruption.

> I'm now running 901eaf6c8f997f18ebc8fcbb85411c79161ab3b2 (i.e. the
> last commit before the one in question) for 4 hours and nothing like
> that.
>
> Not sure about the exact rule, but the most probable candidates are:
> -A INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
> -A INPUT -p udp -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
>
> Other "REJECT" rules haven't fired yet.
>
> Could be some obscure problem with GRE/Speedtouch/PPP over ATM,
> triggered by this patch, though.
>
> Perhaps I can do some experiments - just say a word.

Please try this patch on top of the REJECT patch (ideally after
verifying that the REJECT patch is really introducing the
corruption).

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c
index ad0312d..264763a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c
@@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ static void send_reset(struct sk_buff *o
tcph->window = 0;
tcph->urg_ptr = 0;

+ /* Adjust TCP checksum */
+ tcph->check = 0;
+ tcph->check = tcp_v4_check(tcph, sizeof(struct tcphdr),
+ nskb->nh.iph->saddr,
+ nskb->nh.iph->daddr,
+ csum_partial((char *)tcph,
+ sizeof(struct tcphdr), 0));
+
/* Set DF, id = 0 */
nskb->nh.iph->frag_off = htons(IP_DF);
nskb->nh.iph->id = 0;
@@ -129,14 +137,8 @@ #endif
if (ip_route_me_harder(&nskb, addr_type))
goto free_nskb;

- /* Adjust TCP checksum */
nskb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
- tcph->check = 0;
- tcph->check = tcp_v4_check(tcph, sizeof(struct tcphdr),
- nskb->nh.iph->saddr,
- nskb->nh.iph->daddr,
- csum_partial((char *)tcph,
- sizeof(struct tcphdr), 0));
+
/* Adjust IP TTL */
nskb->nh.iph->ttl = dst_metric(nskb->dst, RTAX_HOPLIMIT);