linux/net/openvswitch
Weiming Shi 2091c6aa0d openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies
The vport netlink reply helpers allocate a fixed-size skb with
nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, ...) but serialize the full upcall PID
array via ovs_vport_get_upcall_portids().  Since
ovs_vport_set_upcall_portids() accepts any non-zero multiple of
sizeof(u32) with no upper bound, a CAP_NET_ADMIN user can install a PID
array large enough to overflow the reply buffer, causing nla_put() to
fail with -EMSGSIZE and hitting BUG_ON(err < 0).  On systems with
unprivileged user namespaces enabled (e.g., Ubuntu default), this is
reachable via unshare -Urn since OVS vport mutation operations use
GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM.

 kernel BUG at net/openvswitch/datapath.c:2414!
 Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 65 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.0.0-rc7-00195-geb216e422044 #1
 RIP: 0010:ovs_vport_cmd_set+0x34c/0x400
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1116)
  genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194)
  netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550)
  genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219)
  netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344)
  netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894)
  __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2206)
  __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2209)
  do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63)
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
  </TASK>
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Reject attempts to set more PIDs than nr_cpu_ids in
ovs_vport_set_upcall_portids(), and pre-compute the worst-case reply
size in ovs_vport_cmd_msg_size() based on that bound, similar to the
existing ovs_dp_cmd_msg_size().  nr_cpu_ids matches the cap already
used by the per-CPU dispatch configuration on the datapath side
(ovs_dp_cmd_fill_info() serialises at most nr_cpu_ids PIDs), so the
two sides stay consistent.

Fixes: 5cd667b0a4 ("openvswitch: Allow each vport to have an array of 'port_id's.")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416024653.153456-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-20 11:43:04 -07:00
..
Kconfig
Makefile
actions.c net: convert remaining ipv6_stub users to direct function calls 2026-03-29 11:21:23 -07:00
conntrack.c Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments 2026-02-21 20:03:00 -08:00
conntrack.h
datapath.c openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies 2026-04-20 11:43:04 -07:00
datapath.h
dp_notify.c
drop.h
flow.c
flow.h
flow_netlink.c openvswitch: validate MPLS set/set_masked payload length 2026-03-20 18:37:31 -07:00
flow_netlink.h
flow_table.c net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate 2026-04-09 19:27:43 -07:00
flow_table.h
meter.c Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
meter.h
openvswitch_trace.c
openvswitch_trace.h
vport-geneve.c
vport-gre.c
vport-internal_dev.c
vport-internal_dev.h
vport-netdev.c openvswitch: defer tunnel netdev_put to RCU release 2026-03-20 18:36:29 -07:00
vport-netdev.h
vport-vxlan.c
vport.c openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies 2026-04-20 11:43:04 -07:00
vport.h