[ovs-dev] [PATCH net v3] ovs: limit ovs recursions in ovs_execute_actions to not corrupt stack

[Hannes Frederic Sowa]

It was seen that defective configurations of openvswitch could overwrite
the STACK_END_MAGIC and cause a hard crash of the kernel because of too
many recursions within ovs.

This problem arises due to the high stack usage of openvswitch. The rest
of the kernel is fine with the current limit of 10 (RECURSION_LIMIT).

We use the already existing recursion counter in ovs_execute_actions to
implement an upper bound of 5 recursions.

Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>
---
v2) added preemption guards
v3) Pravin suggested to reuse the ovs_execute_actions counter which this
    patch does. Also only allow 5 recursions as suggested by Pravin.

 net/openvswitch/actions.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/actions.c b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
index c88d0f2d3e019b..9d8a09fd716abe 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/actions.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
@@ -1160,17 +1160,28 @@ int ovs_execute_actions(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			const struct sw_flow_actions *acts,
 			struct sw_flow_key *key)
 {
-	int level = this_cpu_read(exec_actions_level);
-	int err;
+	static const int ovs_recursion_limit = 5;
+	int err, level;
+
+	preempt_disable();
+	level = __this_cpu_inc_return(exec_actions_level);
+	if (level > ovs_recursion_limit) {
+		net_crit_ratelimited("ovs: recursion limit reached on datapath %s, probable configuration error\n",
+				     ovs_dp_name(dp));
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+		err = -ENETDOWN;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
-	this_cpu_inc(exec_actions_level);
 	err = do_execute_actions(dp, skb, key,
 				 acts->actions, acts->actions_len);
 
-	if (!level)
+	if (level == 1)
 		process_deferred_actions(dp);
 
-	this_cpu_dec(exec_actions_level);
+out:
+	__this_cpu_dec(exec_actions_level);
+	preempt_enable();
 	return err;
 }
 
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2.5.0