I encountered a kernel panic with my test program, which is a very simple
IPv6 client-server program.
The server side sets IPV6_RECVPKTINFO on a listening socket,
and the client side just sends a message to the server.
Then the kernel panic occurs on the server.
(If you need the test program, please let me know. I can provide it.)
This problem happens because a skb is forcibly freed in
tcp_rcv_state_process().
When a socket in listening state(TCP_LISTEN) receives a syn packet,
then tcp_v6_conn_request() will be called from tcp_rcv_state_process().
If the tcp_v6_conn_request() successfully returns, the skb would be discarded
by __kfree_skb().
However, in case of a listening socket which was already set IPV6_RECVPKTINFO,
an address of the skb will be stored in treq->pktopts and a ref count of the skb
will be incremented in tcp_v6_conn_request().
But, even if the skb is still in use, the skb will be freed.
Then someone still using the freed skb will cause the kernel panic.
I suggest to use kfree_skb() instead of __kfree_skb().
Signed-off-by: Masayuki Nakagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c.orig 2007-01-17 13:25:10.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c 2007-01-17 13:28:48.000000000 -0800
@@ -4420,9 +4420,11 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *s
* But, this leaves one open to an easy denial of
* service attack, and SYN cookies can't defend
* against this problem. So, we drop the data
- * in the interest of security over speed.
+ * in the interest of security over speed unless
+ * it's still in use.
*/
- goto discard;
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ return 0;
}
goto discard;
-
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