[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] lpm: fix buffer overflow

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Oct 25 19:10:57 CEST 2021


22/10/2021 11:07, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 06:15:49PM +0100, Vladimir Medvedkin wrote:
> > This patch fixes buffer overflow reported by ASAN,
> > please reference https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819
> > 
> > The rte_lpm6 keeps routing information for control plane purpose
> > inside the rte_hash table which uses rte_jhash() as a hash function.
> > From the rte_jhash() documentation: If input key is not aligned to
> > four byte boundaries or a multiple of four bytes in length,
> > the memory region just after may be read (but not used in the
> > computation).
> > rte_lpm6 uses 17 bytes keys consisting of IPv6 address (16 bytes) +
> > depth (1 byte).
> > 
> > This patch increases the size of the depth field up to uint32_t
> > and sets the alignment to 4 bytes.
> > 
> > Bugzilla ID: 819
> > Fixes: 86b3b21952a8 ("lpm6: store rules in hash table")
> > Cc: alex at therouter.net
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Medvedkin <vladimir.medvedkin at intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Applied, thanks.





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