When sending a security context of 50+ characters in an ACQUIRE message, following kernel panic occurred.
kernel BUG in xfrm_send_acquire at net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:1781! cpu 0x3: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c0000000421bb2e0] pc: c00000000033b074: .xfrm_send_acquire+0x240/0x2c8 lr: c00000000033b014: .xfrm_send_acquire+0x1e0/0x2c8 sp: c0000000421bb560 msr: 8000000000029032 current = 0xc00000000fce8f00 paca = 0xc000000000464b00 pid = 2303, comm = ping kernel BUG in xfrm_send_acquire at net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:1781! enter ? for help 3:mon> t [c0000000421bb650] c00000000033538c .km_query+0x6c/0xec [c0000000421bb6f0] c000000000337374 .xfrm_state_find+0x7f4/0xb88 [c0000000421bb7f0] c000000000332350 .xfrm_tmpl_resolve+0xc4/0x21c [c0000000421bb8d0] c0000000003326e8 .xfrm_lookup+0x1a0/0x5b0 [c0000000421bba00] c0000000002e6ea0 .ip_route_output_flow+0x88/0xb4 [c0000000421bbaa0] c0000000003106d8 .ip4_datagram_connect+0x218/0x374 [c0000000421bbbd0] c00000000031bc00 .inet_dgram_connect+0xac/0xd4 [c0000000421bbc60] c0000000002b11ac .sys_connect+0xd8/0x120 [c0000000421bbd90] c0000000002d38d0 .compat_sys_socketcall+0xdc/0x214 [c0000000421bbe30] c00000000000869c syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000000007f0ca9c SP (fc0ef8f0) is in userspace We are using size of security context from xfrm_policy to determine how much space to alloc skb and then putting security context from xfrm_state into skb. Should have been using size of security context from xfrm_state to alloc skb. Following fix does that Please let me know if this is acceptable. Patch was built and tested against 2.6.21-rc6-git5. Regards, Joy Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urpN linux-2.6.20/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c linux-2.6.20.patch/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c --- linux-2.6.20/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c 2007-04-12 15:12:27.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.20.patch/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c 2007-04-13 09:32:35.000000000 -0500 @@ -272,9 +272,8 @@ static int attach_encap_tmpl(struct xfrm } -static inline int xfrm_user_sec_ctx_size(struct xfrm_policy *xp) +static inline int xfrm_user_sec_ctx_size(struct xfrm_sec_ctx *xfrm_ctx) { - struct xfrm_sec_ctx *xfrm_ctx = xp->security; int len = 0; if (xfrm_ctx) { @@ -2170,7 +2169,7 @@ static int xfrm_send_acquire(struct xfrm len = RTA_SPACE(sizeof(struct xfrm_user_tmpl) * xp->xfrm_nr); len += NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct xfrm_user_acquire)); - len += RTA_SPACE(xfrm_user_sec_ctx_size(xp)); + len += RTA_SPACE(xfrm_user_sec_ctx_size(x->security)); #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM_SUB_POLICY len += RTA_SPACE(sizeof(struct xfrm_userpolicy_type)); #endif @@ -2280,7 +2279,7 @@ static int xfrm_exp_policy_notify(struct len = RTA_SPACE(sizeof(struct xfrm_user_tmpl) * xp->xfrm_nr); len += NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct xfrm_user_polexpire)); - len += RTA_SPACE(xfrm_user_sec_ctx_size(xp)); + len += RTA_SPACE(xfrm_user_sec_ctx_size(xp->security)); #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM_SUB_POLICY len += RTA_SPACE(sizeof(struct xfrm_userpolicy_type)); #endif - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html