netfilter: nf_log: release skbuff on nlmsg put failure
authorHoucheng Lin <houcheng@gmail.com>
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:36:08 +0000 (10:36 +0200)
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:34:11 +0000 (14:34 +0200)
The kernel should reserve enough room in the skb so that the DONE
message can always be appended.  However, in case of e.g. new attribute
erronously not being size-accounted for, __nfulnl_send() will still
try to put next nlmsg into this full skbuf, causing the skb to be stuck
forever and blocking delivery of further messages.

Fix issue by releasing skb immediately after nlmsg_put error and
WARN() so we can track down the cause of such size mismatch.

[ fw@strlen.de: add tailroom/len info to WARN ]

Signed-off-by: Houcheng Lin <houcheng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c

index 2d02eac35415bd726946e0f35349b8ae7e237f3e..5f1be5ba35595abb3e96a4d7c9e16fe2c8f4bd8c 100644 (file)
@@ -346,26 +346,25 @@ nfulnl_alloc_skb(struct net *net, u32 peer_portid, unsigned int inst_size,
        return skb;
 }
 
-static int
+static void
 __nfulnl_send(struct nfulnl_instance *inst)
 {
-       int status = -1;
-
        if (inst->qlen > 1) {
                struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_put(inst->skb, 0, 0,
                                                 NLMSG_DONE,
                                                 sizeof(struct nfgenmsg),
                                                 0);
-               if (!nlh)
+               if (WARN_ONCE(!nlh, "bad nlskb size: %u, tailroom %d\n",
+                             inst->skb->len, skb_tailroom(inst->skb))) {
+                       kfree_skb(inst->skb);
                        goto out;
+               }
        }
-       status = nfnetlink_unicast(inst->skb, inst->net, inst->peer_portid,
-                                  MSG_DONTWAIT);
-
+       nfnetlink_unicast(inst->skb, inst->net, inst->peer_portid,
+                         MSG_DONTWAIT);
+out:
        inst->qlen = 0;
        inst->skb = NULL;
-out:
-       return status;
 }
 
 static void