settling serious conflicts between MAC and IPSEC
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 28 10:21:57 UTC 2006
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:02:39 +0000 (GMT)
Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, zhouyi zhou wrote:
>
> > High everyone, there exists a serious bug in function ipsec_copypkt(m) of
> > netinet6/ipsec.c in FreeBSD 5.4, FreeBSD 6.0 and FreeBSD 7.0
> >
> > 3469 MGETHDR(mnew, M_DONTWAIT, MT_HEADER);
> > 3470 if (mnew == NULL)
> > 3471 goto fail;
> > 3472 mnew->m_pkthdr = n->m_pkthdr;
> > 3473 #if 0
> > 3474 /* XXX: convert to m_tag or delete? */
> > 3475 if (n->m_pkthdr.aux) {
> > 3476 mnew->m_pkthdr.aux =
> > 3477 m_copym(n->m_pkthdr.aux,
> > 3478 0, M_COPYALL, M_DONTWAIT);
> > 3479 }
> > 3480 #endif
> > 3481 M_MOVE_PKTHDR(mnew, n);
> >
> > On line 3472, mnew->m_pkthdr is assigned n->m_pkthdr, and on line 3481, in
> > function m_move_pkthdr, mnew's tag list will be delete (and the n's tag of
> > cause). This will cause system to crash.
> >
> > After commenting out line 3472, everything is OK.
>
> Thanks for this report! The M_MOVE_PKTHDR() should do all the necessary work,
> including copying the fields referenced in 3472, as well as handling existing
> m_tags right. I've attached a patch with your proposal, which looks and
> sounds good to me, and CC'd George and Bjoern in the hopes that one of them
> will give it a node of approval before I commit it -- hopefully we can get
> this MFC'd for 6.1-RELEASE.
>
> Robert N M Watson
>
Should also close kern/94599
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Tom Rhodes
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