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tag nametrace-v4.15-rc4 (bd8e15502dea4c62617f963e512652dbf566a811)
tag date2017-12-27 14:30:38 -0500
tagged bySteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tagged objectcommit 4397f04575...
downloadlinux-trace-trace-v4.15-rc4.tar.gz
While doing tests on tracing over the network, I found that the packets
were getting corrupted. In the process I found three bugs. One was the culprit, but the other two scared me. After deeper investigation, they were not as major as I thought they were, due to a signed compared to an unsigned that prevented a negative number from doing actual harm. The two bigger bugs: - Mask the ring buffer data page length. There are data flags at the high bits of the length field. These were not cleared via the length function, and the length could return a negative number. (Although the number returned was unsigned, but was assigned to a signed number) Luckily, this value was compared to PAGE_SIZE which is unsigned and kept it from entering the path that could have caused damage. - Check the page usage before reusing the ring buffer reader page. TCP increments the page ref when passing the page off to the network. The page is passed back to the ring buffer for use on free. But the page could still be in use by the TCP stack. Minor bugs: - Related to the first bug. No need to clear out the unused ring buffer data before sending to user space. It is now done by the ring buffer code itself. - Reset pointers after free on error path. There were some cases in the error path that pointers were freed but not set to NULL, and could have them freed again, having a pointer freed twice. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQHIBAABCgAyFiEEPm6V/WuN2kyArTUe1a05Y9njSUkFAlpD9O8UHHJvc3RlZHRA Z29vZG1pcy5vcmcACgkQ1a05Y9njSUnC0Av9EqzJjJXlZuleCSiuh1umx33esgZv gOYTOXH9QLdKFHLpwVzeCsrhrLXNhbUfrGMQ0ERcpvVacHCKVwRyzx0nfI5W3rbt 9sCsNsVR2SCVpzSWOvP9iJM0J/myFdZtYmGLC2BBJerXZFwl9Ciw+1bF7MFprb4v 6r+49YrYMAR/H/obT3Aoh/XCOz0W0czk9ECGPhuwqAjWoNPwSgpbTdqpR92bJf85 hGYppIX9d+4Gv4pZ2lfXDKrgiAPvHpp5I/znLDY8cG7GhcBjyXaetBb+XlfHI6D4 jTS59f13CqcEhyFE5x2qwQBr9TTh043EKviixDud+nI1L7aNhDIBtb6tYrAmGWWh Rj1268gFjspi3pYTjI8cHXXCJSdQiAqFesiFLviU1c17PgjbBAnmkcsFSgOPxHqc j225jravcXtUqQq5J0qKR6Sn3LObfYJQk6tqpN6gWN76P75QgUms5W4+/NiEI0a3 0LVjapxHZkDEYNRGmI+d0CvIJ3BWyb781Siw =xhPf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----