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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.32 15/62] udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums
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On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 00:56 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> commit beb39db59d14990e401e235faf66a6b9b31240b0 upstream.
>
> We have two problems in UDP stack related to bogus checksums :
>
> 1) We return -EAGAIN to application even if receive queue is not empty.
> This breaks applications using edge trigger epoll()
>
> 2) Under UDP flood, we can loop forever without yielding to other
> processes, potentially hanging the host, especially on non SMP.
>
> This patch is an attempt to make things better.
>
> We might in the future add extra support for rt applications
> wanting to better control time spent doing a recv() in a hostile
> environment. For example we could validate checksums before queuing
> packets in socket receive queue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
>
> CVE-2015-5364
[...]

As there were two different problems, each deserving its own CVE ID,
this also fixes CVE-2015-5366.

Ben.



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