fib_trie: remove potential out of bound access
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:18:49 +0000 (11:18 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:26:11 +0000 (15:26 -0700)
AddressSanitizer [1] dynamic checker pointed a potential
out of bound access in leaf_walk_rcu()

We could allocate one more slot in tnode_new() to leave the prefetch()
in-place but it looks not worth the pain.

Bug added in commit 82cfbb008572b ("[IPV4] fib_trie: iterator recode")

[1] :
https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/fib_trie.c

index 108a1e9..3df6d3e 100644 (file)
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/prefetch.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 #include <net/ip.h>
@@ -1761,10 +1760,8 @@ static struct leaf *leaf_walk_rcu(struct tnode *p, struct rt_trie_node *c)
                        if (!c)
                                continue;
 
-                       if (IS_LEAF(c)) {
-                               prefetch(rcu_dereference_rtnl(p->child[idx]));
+                       if (IS_LEAF(c))
                                return (struct leaf *) c;
-                       }
 
                        /* Rescan start scanning in new node */
                        p = (struct tnode *) c;