On 03.01.2019 06:14, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The [ip,ip6,arp]_tables use x_tables_info internally and the underlying
> memory is already accounted to kmemcg. Do the same for ebtables. The
> syzbot, by using setsockopt(EBT_SO_SET_ENTRIES), was able to OOM the
> whole system from a restricted memcg, a potential DoS.
> 
> By accounting the ebt_table_info, the memory used for ebt_table_info can
> be contained within the memcg of the allocating process. However the
> lifetime of ebt_table_info is independent of the allocating process and
> is tied to the network namespace. So, the oom-killer will not be able to
> relieve the memory pressure due to ebt_table_info memory. The memory for
> ebt_table_info is allocated through vmalloc. Currently vmalloc does not
> handle the oom-killed allocating process correctly and one large
> allocation can bypass memcg limit enforcement. So, with this patch,
> at least the small allocations will be contained. For large allocations,
> we need to fix vmalloc.
> 
> Reported-by: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <[email protected]>
> Cc: Roopa Prabhu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linux MM <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: LKML <[email protected]>
> ---
> Changelog since v1:
> - More descriptive commit message.

Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>

> 
>  net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> index 491828713e0b..5e55cef0cec3 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> @@ -1137,14 +1137,16 @@ static int do_replace(struct net *net, const void 
> __user *user,
>       tmp.name[sizeof(tmp.name) - 1] = 0;
>  
>       countersize = COUNTER_OFFSET(tmp.nentries) * nr_cpu_ids;
> -     newinfo = vmalloc(sizeof(*newinfo) + countersize);
> +     newinfo = __vmalloc(sizeof(*newinfo) + countersize, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT,
> +                         PAGE_KERNEL);
>       if (!newinfo)
>               return -ENOMEM;
>  
>       if (countersize)
>               memset(newinfo->counters, 0, countersize);
>  
> -     newinfo->entries = vmalloc(tmp.entries_size);
> +     newinfo->entries = __vmalloc(tmp.entries_size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT,
> +                                  PAGE_KERNEL);
>       if (!newinfo->entries) {
>               ret = -ENOMEM;
>               goto free_newinfo;
> 

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