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Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel panic when calling tcp_v(4/6)_md5_do_lookup

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From: Gui Jianfeng
Subject: [PATCH] Fix kernel panic when calling tcp_v(4/6)_md5_do_lookup
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 10:12 pm

If the following packet flow happen, kernel will panic.
MathineA			MathineB
		SYN
	---------------------->    
        	SYN+ACK
	<----------------------
		ACK(bad seq)
	---------------------->
When a bad seq ACK is received, tcp_v4_md5_do_lookup(skb->sk, ip_hdr(skb)->daddr))
is finally called by tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack(), but the first parameter(skb->sk) is 
NULL at that moment, so kernel panic happens.
This patch fixes this bug.

Below is the OOPS output:

[  302.812793] IP: [<c05cfaa6>] tcp_v4_md5_do_lookup+0x12/0x42
[  302.817075] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[  302.819815] Modules linked in: ipv6 loop dm_multipath rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib pcspkr pcnet32 mii i2c_piix4 parport_pc i2c_core parport ac button ata_piix libata dm_mod mptspi mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi sd_mod scsi_mod crc_t10dif ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[  302.849946] 
[  302.851198] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.27-rc1-guijf #5)
[  302.855184] EIP: 0060:[<c05cfaa6>] EFLAGS: 00010296 CPU: 0
[  302.858296] EIP is at tcp_v4_md5_do_lookup+0x12/0x42
[  302.861027] EAX: 0000001e EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000046 EDX: 00000046
[  302.864867] ESI: ceb69e00 EDI: 1467a8c0 EBP: cf75f180 ESP: c0792e54
[  302.868333]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[  302.871287] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c0792000 task=c0712340 task.ti=c0746000)
[  302.875592] Stack: c06f413a 00000000 cf75f180 ceb69e00 00000000 c05d0d86 000016d0 ceac5400 
[  302.883275]        c05d28f8 000016d0 ceb69e00 ceb69e20 681bf6e3 00001000 00000000 0a67a8c0 
[  302.890971]        ceac5400 c04250a3 c06f413a c0792eb0 c0792edc cf59a620 cf59a620 cf59a634 
[  302.900140] Call Trace:
[  302.902392]  [<c05d0d86>] tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack+0x17/0x35
[  302.907060]  [<c05d28f8>] tcp_check_req+0x156/0x372
[  302.910082]  [<c04250a3>] printk+0x14/0x18
[  302.912868]  [<c05d0aa1>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x1d3/0x2bf
[  302.917423]  [<c05d26be>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x563/0x5b9
[  302.920453]  [<c05bb20f>] ...
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From: David Miller
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel panic when calling tcp_v(4/6)_md5_do_lookup
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 10:44 pm

From: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>

Applied, thanks.
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From: David Miller
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel panic when calling tcp_v(4/6)_md5_do_lookup
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 10:47 pm

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Actually I'm reverting, this was not properly build tested:

net/dccp/ipv4.c:555: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
net/dccp/ipv6.c:358: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
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From: Gui Jianfeng
Subject: [PATCH] Fix kernel panic when calling tcp_v(4/6)_md5_do_lookup
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 11:44 pm

If the following packet flow happen, kernel will panic.
MathineA			MathineB
		SYN
	---------------------->    
        	SYN+ACK
	<----------------------
		ACK(bad seq)
	---------------------->
When a bad seq ACK is received, tcp_v4_md5_do_lookup(skb->sk, ip_hdr(skb)->daddr))
is finally called by tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack(), but the first parameter(skb->sk) is 
NULL at that moment, so kernel panic happens.
This patch fixes this bug.

OOPS output is as following:
[  302.812793] IP: [<c05cfaa6>] tcp_v4_md5_do_lookup+0x12/0x42
[  302.817075] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[  302.819815] Modules linked in: ipv6 loop dm_multipath rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib pcspkr pcnet32 mii i2c_piix4 parport_pc i2c_core parport ac button ata_piix libata dm_mod mptspi mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi sd_mod scsi_mod crc_t10dif ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[  302.849946] 
[  302.851198] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.27-rc1-guijf #5)
[  302.855184] EIP: 0060:[<c05cfaa6>] EFLAGS: 00010296 CPU: 0
[  302.858296] EIP is at tcp_v4_md5_do_lookup+0x12/0x42
[  302.861027] EAX: 0000001e EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000046 EDX: 00000046
[  302.864867] ESI: ceb69e00 EDI: 1467a8c0 EBP: cf75f180 ESP: c0792e54
[  302.868333]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[  302.871287] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c0792000 task=c0712340 task.ti=c0746000)
[  302.875592] Stack: c06f413a 00000000 cf75f180 ceb69e00 00000000 c05d0d86 000016d0 ceac5400 
[  302.883275]        c05d28f8 000016d0 ceb69e00 ceb69e20 681bf6e3 00001000 00000000 0a67a8c0 
[  302.890971]        ceac5400 c04250a3 c06f413a c0792eb0 c0792edc cf59a620 cf59a620 cf59a634 
[  302.900140] Call Trace:
[  302.902392]  [<c05d0d86>] tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack+0x17/0x35
[  302.907060]  [<c05d28f8>] tcp_check_req+0x156/0x372
[  302.910082]  [<c04250a3>] printk+0x14/0x18
[  302.912868]  [<c05d0aa1>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x1d3/0x2bf
[  302.917423]  [<c05d26be>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x563/0x5b9
[  302.920453]  [<c05bb20f>] ...
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From: David Miller
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel panic when calling tcp_v(4/6)_md5_do_lookup
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 11:51 pm

From: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>

Applied, let's see if this one build properly :-)
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