Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2: BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Nov 21 2011 - 05:22:02 EST


Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 Ã 11:15 +0100, Eric Dumazet a Ãcrit :

>
> Hmm, trinity tries to crash decnet ;)
>
> Maybe we should remove this decnet stuff for good instead of tracking
> all bugs just for the record. Is there anybody still using decnet ?
>
> For example dn_start_slow_timer() starts a timer without holding a
> reference on struct sock, this is highly suspect.
>
> [PATCH] decnet: proper socket refcounting
>
> Better use sk_reset_timer() / sk_stop_timer() helpers to make sure we
> dont access already freed/reused memory later.
>
> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

Hmm, I forgot to remove the sock_hold(sk) call from dn_slow_timer(),
here is V2 :

[PATCH] decnet: proper socket refcounting

Better use sk_reset_timer() / sk_stop_timer() helpers to make sure we
dont access already freed/reused memory later.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
---
V2: remove sock_hold(sk) call from dn_slow_timer()

net/decnet/dn_timer.c | 17 +++++------------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_timer.c b/net/decnet/dn_timer.c
index 67f691b..d9c150c 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_timer.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_timer.c
@@ -36,16 +36,13 @@ static void dn_slow_timer(unsigned long arg);

void dn_start_slow_timer(struct sock *sk)
{
- sk->sk_timer.expires = jiffies + SLOW_INTERVAL;
- sk->sk_timer.function = dn_slow_timer;
- sk->sk_timer.data = (unsigned long)sk;
-
- add_timer(&sk->sk_timer);
+ setup_timer(&sk->sk_timer, dn_slow_timer, (unsigned long)sk);
+ sk_reset_timer(sk, &sk->sk_timer, jiffies + SLOW_INTERVAL);
}

void dn_stop_slow_timer(struct sock *sk)
{
- del_timer(&sk->sk_timer);
+ sk_stop_timer(sk, &sk->sk_timer);
}

static void dn_slow_timer(unsigned long arg)
@@ -53,12 +50,10 @@ static void dn_slow_timer(unsigned long arg)
struct sock *sk = (struct sock *)arg;
struct dn_scp *scp = DN_SK(sk);

- sock_hold(sk);
bh_lock_sock(sk);

if (sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
- sk->sk_timer.expires = jiffies + HZ / 10;
- add_timer(&sk->sk_timer);
+ sk_reset_timer(sk, &sk->sk_timer, jiffies + HZ / 10);
goto out;
}

@@ -100,9 +95,7 @@ static void dn_slow_timer(unsigned long arg)
scp->keepalive_fxn(sk);
}

- sk->sk_timer.expires = jiffies + SLOW_INTERVAL;
-
- add_timer(&sk->sk_timer);
+ sk_reset_timer(sk, &sk->sk_timer, jiffies + SLOW_INTERVAL);
out:
bh_unlock_sock(sk);
sock_put(sk);


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