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From: Michael Braun <michael-dev@fami-braun.de>

bridge: Fix br_forward crash in promiscuous mode

It's a linux-next kernel from 2010-03-12 on an x86 system and it
OOPs in the bridge module in br_pass_frame_up (called by
br_handle_frame_finish) because brdev cannot be dereferenced (its set to
a non-null value).

Adding some BUG_ON statements revealed that
 BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->brdev == br-dev
(as set in br_handle_frame_finish first)
only holds until br_forward is called.
The next call to br_pass_frame_up then fails.

Digging deeper it seems that br_forward either frees the skb or passes
it to NF_HOOK which will in turn take care of freeing the skb. The
same is holds for br_pass_frame_ip. So it seems as if two independent
skb allocations are required. As far as I can see, commit
b33084b ("bridge: Avoid unnecessary
clone on forward path") removed skb duplication and so likely causes
this crash. This crash does not happen on 2.6.33.

I've therefore modified br_forward the same way br_flood has been
modified so that the skb is not freed if skb0 is going to be used
and I can confirm that the attached patch resolves the issue for me.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Michael Braun authored and David S. Miller committed Mar 16, 2010
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14 changes: 11 additions & 3 deletions net/bridge/br_forward.c
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#include <linux/netfilter_bridge.h>
#include "br_private.h"

static int deliver_clone(struct net_bridge_port *prev, struct sk_buff *skb,
void (*__packet_hook)(const struct net_bridge_port *p,
struct sk_buff *skb));

/* Don't forward packets to originating port or forwarding diasabled */
static inline int should_deliver(const struct net_bridge_port *p,
const struct sk_buff *skb)
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}

/* called with rcu_read_lock */
void br_forward(const struct net_bridge_port *to, struct sk_buff *skb)
void br_forward(const struct net_bridge_port *to, struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff *skb0)
{
if (should_deliver(to, skb)) {
__br_forward(to, skb);
if (skb0)
deliver_clone(to, skb, __br_forward);
else
__br_forward(to, skb);
return;
}

kfree_skb(skb);
if (!skb0)
kfree_skb(skb);
}

static int deliver_clone(struct net_bridge_port *prev, struct sk_buff *skb,
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/bridge/br_input.c
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if (skb) {
if (dst)
br_forward(dst->dst, skb);
br_forward(dst->dst, skb, skb2);
else
br_flood_forward(br, skb, skb2);
}
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/bridge/br_private.h
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Expand Up @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ extern void br_deliver(const struct net_bridge_port *to,
struct sk_buff *skb);
extern int br_dev_queue_push_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void br_forward(const struct net_bridge_port *to,
struct sk_buff *skb);
struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff *skb0);
extern int br_forward_finish(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void br_flood_deliver(struct net_bridge *br, struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void br_flood_forward(struct net_bridge *br, struct sk_buff *skb,
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