On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 02:03:55AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Josh Hunt <joh...@akamai.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:15:43 -0800
>
> > The rds_ib_xmit function in net/rds/ib_send.c in the Reliable Datagram
> > Sockets
> > (RDS) protocol implementation allows local users to cause a denial of
> > service
> > (BUG_ON and kernel panic) by establishing an RDS connection with the source
> > IP address equal to the IPoIB interface's own IP address, as demonstrated by
> > rds-ping.
> >
> > A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.
> >
> > CVE-2012-2372
> >
> > Reported-by: Honggang Li <ho...@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <joh...@akamai.com>
>
> I'm sorry I can't apply this. This commit message needs to be much
> less terse and explain things more.
>
> First of all, why is the "off % RDS_FRAG_SIZE" important?
>
> And, even more importantly, why is is OK to avoid this assertion just
> because we're going over loopback?
>
> Furthermore, why doesn't net/rds/iw_send.c:rds_iw_xmit() have the same
> exact problem? It makes the same exact assertion check.
>
> I know this RDS code is a steaming pile of poo, but that doesn't mean
> we just randomly adjust assertions to make crashes go away without
> sufficient understanding of exactly what's going on.
And that is why rds should be moved to staging, where nobody will
accidentally think that it is actually being maintained.
-- JF
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