netfilter: nf_conntrack: reserve two bytes for nf_ct_ext->len
authorAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:54:32 +0000 (13:54 +0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 9 May 2015 22:16:35 +0000 (23:16 +0100)
commit33eedfe8ecbaabcdc38be63901cb2b79e3190fda
tree2b92fcc303f25db9cd820d215b6aebb058139371
parentd6d3289fe26e3e622e27c0cfb2b4634d9f0bfbfb
netfilter: nf_conntrack: reserve two bytes for nf_ct_ext->len

commit 223b02d923ecd7c84cf9780bb3686f455d279279 upstream.

"len" contains sizeof(nf_ct_ext) and size of extensions. In a worst
case it can contain all extensions. Bellow you can find sizes for all
types of extensions. Their sum is definitely bigger than 256.

nf_ct_ext_types[0]->len = 24
nf_ct_ext_types[1]->len = 32
nf_ct_ext_types[2]->len = 24
nf_ct_ext_types[3]->len = 32
nf_ct_ext_types[4]->len = 152
nf_ct_ext_types[5]->len = 2
nf_ct_ext_types[6]->len = 16
nf_ct_ext_types[7]->len = 8

I have seen "len" up to 280 and my host has crashes w/o this patch.

The right way to fix this problem is reducing the size of the ecache
extension (4) and Florian is going to do this, but these changes will
be quite large to be appropriate for a stable tree.

Fixes: 5b423f6a40a0 (netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix racy timer handling with reliable)
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.h