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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: neighbor: fix a crash caused by mod zero
On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:20:19 +0800 weichenchen wrote:
> pneigh_enqueue() tries to obtain a random delay by mod
> NEIGH_VAR(p, PROXY_DELAY). However, NEIGH_VAR(p, PROXY_DELAY)
> migth be zero at that point because someone could write zero
> to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/[device]/proxy_delay after the
> callers check it.
>
> This patch double-checks NEIGH_VAR(p, PROXY_DELAY) in
> pneigh_enqueue() to ensure not to take zero as modulus.
>
> Signed-off-by: weichenchen <weichen.chen@linux.alibaba.com>

Let's have the caller pass in the value since it did the checking?

> diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
> index 9500d28a43b0..eb5d015c53d3 100644
> --- a/net/core/neighbour.c
> +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
> @@ -1570,9 +1570,14 @@ void pneigh_enqueue(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct neigh_parms *p,
> struct sk_buff *skb)
> {
> unsigned long now = jiffies;
> + unsigned long sched_next;
>
> - unsigned long sched_next = now + (prandom_u32() %
> - NEIGH_VAR(p, PROXY_DELAY));
> + int delay = NEIGH_VAR(p, PROXY_DELAY);
> +
> + if (delay <= 0)

Not that this still doesn't guarantee that the compiler won't re-read
the value (however unlikely). We need a READ_ONCE().

> + sched_next = now;
> + else
> + sched_next = now + (prandom_u32() % delay);
>
> if (tbl->proxy_queue.qlen > NEIGH_VAR(p, PROXY_QLEN)) {
> kfree_skb(skb);

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