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    net: netem: fix use after free and double free with packet corruption · 3e14c383
    Jakub Kicinski authored
    Brendan reports that the use of netem's packet corruption capability
    leads to strange crashes.  This seems to be caused by
    commit d66280b1 ("net: netem: use a list in addition to rbtree")
    which uses skb->next pointer to construct a fast-path queue of
    in-order skbs.
    
    Packet corruption code has to invoke skb_gso_segment() in case
    of skbs in need of GSO.  skb_gso_segment() returns a list of
    skbs.  If next pointers of the skbs on that list do not get cleared
    fast path list may point to freed skbs or skbs which are also on
    the RB tree.
    
    Let's say skb gets segmented into 3 frames:
    
    A -> B -> C
    
    A gets hooked to the t_head t_tail list by tfifo_enqueue(), but it's
    next pointer didn't get cleared so we have:
    
    h t
    |/
    A -> B -> C
    
    Now if B and C get also get enqueued successfully all is fine, because
    tfifo_enqueue() will overwrite the list in order.  IOW:
    
    Enqueue B:
    
    h    t
    |    |
    A -> B    C
    
    Enqueue C:
    
    h         t
    |         |
    A -> B -> C
    
    But if B and C get reordered we may end up with:
    
    h t            RB tree
    |/                |
    A -> B -> C       B
                       \
                        C
    
    Or if they get dropped just:
    
    h t
    |/
    A -> B -> C
    
    where A and B are already freed.
    
    To reproduce either limit has to be set low to cause freeing of
    segs or reorders have to happen (due to delay jitter).
    
    Note that we only have to mark the first segment as not on the
    list, "finish_segs" handling of other frags already does that.
    
    Another caveat is that qdisc_drop_all() still has to free all
    segments correctly in case of drop of first segment, therefore
    we re-link segs before calling it.
    
    v2:
     - re-link before drop, v1 was leaking non-first segs if limit
       was hit at the first seg
     - better commit message which lead to discovering the above :)
    Reported-by: default avatarBrendan Galloway <brendan.galloway@netronome.com>
    Fixes: d66280b1 ("net: netem: use a list in addition to rbtree")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe@netronome.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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