On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:19:59 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:07:31 +0000
> Aleksandr Nogikh <aleksandrnog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Aleksandr Nogikh <nog...@google.com>
> >
> > Currently it is possible to craft a special netlink RTM_NEWQDISC
> > command that can result in jitter being equal to 0x80000000. It is
> > enough to set the 32 bit jitter to 0x02000000 (it will later be
> > multiplied by 2^6) or just set the 64 bit jitter via
> > TCA_NETEM_JITTER64. This causes an overflow during the generation of
> > uniformly distributed numbers in tabledist(), which in turn leads to
> > division by zero (sigma != 0, but sigma * 2 is 0).
> >
> > The related fragment of code needs 32-bit division - see commit
> > 9b0ed89 ("netem: remove unnecessary 64 bit modulus"), so switching to
> > 64 bit is not an option.
> >
> > Fix the issue by keeping the value of jitter within the range that can
> > be adequately handled by tabledist() - [0;INT_MAX]. As negative std
> > deviation makes no sense, take the absolute value of the passed value
> > and cap it at INT_MAX. Inside tabledist(), switch to unsigned 32 bit
> > arithmetic in order to prevent overflows.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <nog...@google.com>
> > Reported-by: syzbot+ec762a6342ad0d3c0...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
Applied, thanks!
