Re: [PATCH bpf v3] net/xdp: fix zero-size allocation warning in xskq_create()

From: Martin KaFai Lau
Date: Fri Oct 06 2023 - 13:38:07 EST


On 10/6/23 12:09 AM, Andrew Kanner wrote:
On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 06:00:46PM -0700, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
[...]
diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk_queue.c b/net/xdp/xsk_queue.c
index f8905400ee07..c7e8bbb12752 100644
--- a/net/xdp/xsk_queue.c
+++ b/net/xdp/xsk_queue.c
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ struct xsk_queue *xskq_create(u32 nentries, bool umem_queue)
q->ring_mask = nentries - 1;
size = xskq_get_ring_size(q, umem_queue);
+ if (unlikely(size == SIZE_MAX)) {

What if "size" is SIZE_MAX-1? Would it still overflow the PAGE_ALIGN below?

+ kfree(q);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
q->ring = vmalloc_user(size);


I asked myself the same question before v1. E.g. thinking about the
check: (size > SIZE_MAX - PAGE_SIZE + 1)

But xskq_create() is called after the check for
!is_power_of_2(entries) in xsk_init_queue(). So I tried the same
reproducer and divided the (nentries) value by 2 in a loop - it hits
either SIZE_MAX case or the normal cases without overflow (sometimes
throwing vmalloc error complaining about size which exceed total pages
in my arm setup).

So I can't see a way size will be SIZE_MAX-1, etc. Correct me if I'm
wrong, please.

PS: In the output below the first 2 values of (nentries) hit SIZE_MAX

Thanks for the explanation, so iiuc it means it will overflow the struct_size() first because of the is_power_of_2(nentries) requirement? Could you help adding some comment to explain? Thanks.

case, the rest hit the normal case, vmalloc_user() is complaining
about 1 allocation:

0x20000000
0x10000000
0x8000000
[ 41.759195][ T2807] pre PAGE_ALIGN size = 2147483968 (0x80000140), PAGE_SIZE = 4096 (0x1000)
[ 41.759621][ T2807] repro-iter: vmalloc error: size 2147487744, exceeds total pages, mode:0xdc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
[...]
0x4000000
0x2000000
0x1000000
0x800000
0x400000
0x200000
0x100000
0x80000
0x40000
0x20000
0x10000
0x8000
0x4000
0x2000
0x1000
0x800
0x400
0x200
0x100
0x80
0x40
0x20
0x10
0x8
0x4
0x2