kern/165643: Missing vnet restores in net/if_ethersubr.c

Vijay Singh vijju.singh at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 01:10:09 UTC 2012


>Number:         165643
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Missing vnet restores in net/if_ethersubr.c
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 03 01:10:08 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Vijay Singh
>Release:        9/stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
There are some missing vnet restore in net/if_ethersubr.c that can cause networking code to execute in the wrong vnet context.

A patch is provided here:

[pc20 /u/vijay/bsd/CODE/9s/sys]# svn diff net/if_ethersubr.c
Index: net/if_ethersubr.c
===================================================================
--- net/if_ethersubr.c  (revision 232242)
+++ net/if_ethersubr.c  (working copy)
@@ -661,8 +661,10 @@
              m = (*lagg_input_p)(ifp, m);
              if (m != NULL)
                      ifp = m->m_pkthdr.rcvif;
-               else
+               else {
+                       CURVNET_RESTORE();
                      return;
+               }
      }

      /*
@@ -681,6 +683,7 @@
 #endif
                      ifp->if_ierrors++;
                      m_freem(m);
+                       CURVNET_RESTORE();
                      return;
              }
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
[pc20 /u/vijay/bsd/CODE/9s/sys]# svn diff net/if_ethersubr.c
Index: net/if_ethersubr.c
===================================================================
--- net/if_ethersubr.c  (revision 232242)
+++ net/if_ethersubr.c  (working copy)
@@ -661,8 +661,10 @@
              m = (*lagg_input_p)(ifp, m);
              if (m != NULL)
                      ifp = m->m_pkthdr.rcvif;
-               else
+               else {
+                       CURVNET_RESTORE();
                      return;
+               }
      }

      /*
@@ -681,6 +683,7 @@
 #endif
                      ifp->if_ierrors++;
                      m_freem(m);
+                       CURVNET_RESTORE();
                      return;
              }

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