Re: [PATCH] ipv4: kernel panic when only one unsecured port available

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:59:14 +0200
Anton Arapov <aarapov@redhat.com> wrote:

> Steps to reproduce:
> Server:
>   [root@server ~]# cat /etc/exports
>   /export *(ro,insecure)
> // there is insecure ... I am using ports like "1024 to 61000"
>   [root@server ~] service nfs restart 
> 
> Client:
>   1.[root@client ~]# echo 32768 32768 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
>   32768   32768
> // two same numbers, for ex "32769 32769" etc.
>   2.[root@client ~]# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
>   32768   32768
>   3.[root@client ~]# mount server:/export /import
>   
> Actual results:
>   Kernel always panics 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> [PATCH] ipv4: kernel panic when only one unsecured port available
> 
>   Patch prevents division by zero. Kernel panics if only one 
> unsecured port available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <aarapov@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
>  net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
> index fbe7714..00ad079 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ int inet_csk_get_port(struct inet_hashinfo *hashinfo,
>  		int low = sysctl_local_port_range[0];
>  		int high = sysctl_local_port_range[1];
>  		int remaining = (high - low) + 1;
> -		int rover = net_random() % (high - low) + low;
> +		int rover = net_random() % remaining + low;
>  
>  		do {
>  			head = &hashinfo->bhash[inet_bhashfn(rover, hashinfo->bhash_size)];
> 

This code has recently been reworked, but from my reading, that
divide-by-zero can still occur.  And given that the numbers in
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range are inclusive, the arithmetic in
inet_csk_get_port() seems to just be wrong?

So we have this, against David's current devel tree:

--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c~ipv4-kernel-panic-when-only-one-unsecured-port-available
+++ a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ int inet_csk_get_port(struct inet_hashin
 		int remaining, rover, low, high;
 
 		inet_get_local_port_range(&low, &high);
-		remaining = high - low;
+		remaining = high - low + 1;
 		rover = net_random() % remaining + low;
 
 		do {
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