sonewconn: pru_attach() failed and kernel panic in PF

Kristof Provost kp at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 5 13:19:10 UTC 2017


On 5 Mar 2017, at 21:42, Kristof Provost wrote:
> There’s only a couple of calls to uma_zfree() in 
> pf_get_translations().
>
> These are:
>  * uma_zfree(V_pf_state_key_z, skp);
>  * uma_zfree(V_pf_state_key_z, *nkp);
>  * uma_zfree(V_pf_state_key_z, *skp);
>
> Going by the inconsistent pointer use the first one is rather suspect.
> Looking a bit deeper, pf_get_translation() is only called from one 
> place,
> and it always passes stack variables for skp and nkp, so the first 
> call
> ends up trying to free that, which won’t work too well.
>
> That’s a bug (and I’ll fix it), but you’re only running into it 
> because
> pf_state_key_clone() returned NULL, which will only happen under 
> memory
> pressure.
>
The fix is done in r314702.

Regards,
Kristof


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