bad usage of the shutdown system call produce a packet with null ip addresses

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 23 15:32:57 PST 2009


On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, david guéluy wrote:

> By using a PFIL_HOOK on FreeBSD 7.1-prerelease, I notice that I receive some 
> packets from 0.0.0.0 to 0.0.0.0.
>
> A buggy program in userland produce these packets when the shutdown system 
> call is used on a socket which is not connected.
>
> Even if it's a bad usage of a system call, this case can produce strange 
> behaviours, I think it's necessary to add some checks in tcp_usr_shutdown.
>
> Here is a short sample to reproduce that case :

Definitely a bug -- could I ask you to file a PR on this, and forward me the 
PR receipt from GNATS?  I can take a look at this, but probably not for a week 
or so and don't want to lose track of it.  Most likely this is a result of the 
changes to add INP_DROPPED and make the inpcb persist after disconnect, in 
some way or another.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

>
> test.c
>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(void)
> {
> 	int			fd;
>
> 	fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> 	if (fd == -1)
> 		return 1;
> 	shutdown(fd, SHUT_RDWR);
> 	close(fd);
>       return 0;
> }
>
> Add some debug in the kernel
>
> [usr/src/sys/netinet]# diff -C4 ip_output.c.origin ip_output.c
> *** ip_output.c.origin  Mon Feb 23 10:27:52 2009
> --- ip_output.c Fri Feb 20 15:23:39 2009
> ***************
> *** 135,142 ****
> --- 135,151 ----
>                      hlen = len;
>      }
>      ip = mtod(m, struct ip *);
>
> + #define PRINTIP(a)      printf("%u.%u.%u.%u", (unsigned)ntohl(a)>>24&0xFF, 
> (unsigned)ntohl(a)>>16&0xFF, (unsigned)ntohl(a)>>8&0xFF, 
> (unsigned)ntohl(a)&0xFF)
> +
> +               if (m->m_pkthdr.rcvif != NULL)
> +                       printf(" if %s ", m->m_pkthdr.rcvif->if_xname);
> +               printf(" proto %d src ", (int)ip->ip_p); 
> PRINTIP(ip->ip_src.s_addr);
> +               printf(" dst "); PRINTIP(ip->ip_dst.s_addr);
> +               printf(" ttl %u\n", (unsigned)ip->ip_ttl);
> +
> +
>
> ./test
> proto 6 src 0.0.0.0 dst 0.0.0.0 ttl 64
>
> Best regards,
> Guéluy David
>


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