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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 170a1fb9c0 netfilter: Force fake conntrack entry to be at least 8 bytes aligned
Since the nfct and nfctinfo have been combined, the nf_conn structure
must be at least 8 bytes aligned, as the 3 LSB bits are used for the
nfctinfo. But there's a fake nf_conn structure to denote untracked
connections, which is created by a PER_CPU construct. This does not
guarantee that it will be 8 bytes aligned and can break the logic in
determining the correct nfctinfo.

I triggered this on a 32bit machine with the following error:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000af4
IP: nf_ct_deliver_cached_events+0x1b/0xfb
*pdpt = 0000000031962001 *pde = 0000000000000000

Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 crc_ccitt ppdev r8169 parport_pc parport
  OK  ]
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.0-test+ #75
Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
task: c126ec00 task.stack: c1258000
EIP: nf_ct_deliver_cached_events+0x1b/0xfb
EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0
EAX: 0021cd01 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 27b0c767 EDX: 32bcb17a
ESI: f34135c0 EDI: f34135c0 EBP: f2debd60 ESP: f2debd3c
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000af4 CR3: 309a0440 CR4: 001406f0
Call Trace:
 <SOFTIRQ>
 ? ipv6_skip_exthdr+0xac/0xcb
 ipv6_confirm+0x10c/0x119 [nf_conntrack_ipv6]
 nf_hook_slow+0x22/0xc7
 nf_hook+0x9a/0xad [ipv6]
 ? ip6t_do_table+0x356/0x379 [ip6_tables]
 ? ip6_fragment+0x9e9/0x9e9 [ipv6]
 ip6_output+0xee/0x107 [ipv6]
 ? ip6_fragment+0x9e9/0x9e9 [ipv6]
 dst_output+0x36/0x4d [ipv6]
 NF_HOOK.constprop.37+0xb2/0xba [ipv6]
 ? icmp6_dst_alloc+0x2c/0xfd [ipv6]
 ? local_bh_enable+0x14/0x14 [ipv6]
 mld_sendpack+0x1c5/0x281 [ipv6]
 ? mark_held_locks+0x40/0x5c
 mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x1f6/0x21e [ipv6]
 call_timer_fn+0x135/0x283
 ? detach_if_pending+0x55/0x55
 ? mld_dad_timer_expire+0x3e/0x3e [ipv6]
 __run_timers+0x111/0x14b
 ? mld_dad_timer_expire+0x3e/0x3e [ipv6]
 run_timer_softirq+0x1c/0x36
 __do_softirq+0x185/0x37c
 ? test_ti_thread_flag.constprop.19+0xd/0xd
 do_softirq_own_stack+0x22/0x28
 </SOFTIRQ>
 irq_exit+0x5a/0xa4
 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x34
 apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x3c

By using DEFINE/DECLARE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED we can enforce at least 8 byte
alignment as all cache line sizes are at least 8 bytes or more.

Fixes: a9e419dc7b ("netfilter: merge ctinfo into nfct pointer storage area")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2017-03-13 13:33:58 +01:00
Documentation A few fixes for the docs tree, including one for a 4.11 build regression. 2017-03-04 11:32:18 -08:00
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include netfilter: Force fake conntrack entry to be at least 8 bytes aligned 2017-03-13 13:33:58 +01:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.