Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation.
From: Jesse GrossDate: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:06:14 -0700 > @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void) > struct flow_stats *stats; > int node; > > - flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL); > + flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); > if (!flow) Like Eric, I prefer that you use kmem_cache_zalloc() to fix this. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:24 PM, David Millerwrote: > From: Jesse Gross > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:06:14 -0700 > >> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void) >> struct flow_stats *stats; >> int node; >> >> - flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL); >> + flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); >> if (!flow) > > Like Eric, I prefer that you use kmem_cache_zalloc() to fix > this. Sure, I'll make both changes and send out a new patch in a bit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation.
On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 19:06 -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > > Fixes: 07148121 ("openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract.") > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross> --- > net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c > index d22d8e9..5248322 100644 > --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c > +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c > @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void) > struct flow_stats *stats; > int node; > > - flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL); > + flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); Or kmem_cache_zalloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL) ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Jesse Grosswrote: > OVS tries to be clever about not touching the parts of a flow that > aren't used. This can include leaving pieces of memory uninitialized > if the mask is zero and therefore the value would be ignored anyways. > > While this works fine for the purposes of matching (which must always > look at the mask), serialization to netlink can be problematic. Since > the flow and the mask are serialized separately, the uninitialized > portions of the flow can be encoded with whatever values happen to be > present. > > In terms of functionality, this has little effect since these fields > will be masked out by definition. However, it leaks kernel memory to > userspace, which is a potential security vulnerability. > > This zeros the flows as they are allocated and installed. This was > always intended to be the case as the memory optimizations were only > supposed to apply to per-packet flow operations. > Good catch. > Fixes: 07148121 ("openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract.") > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross > --- > net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c > index d22d8e9..5248322 100644 > --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c > +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c > @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void) > struct flow_stats *stats; > int node; > > - flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL); > + flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); > if (!flow) > return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); There are few flow members set to zero that are unnecessary after this change. > > -- > 2.1.4 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html