1. 30 8月, 2005 3 次提交
  2. 24 6月, 2005 3 次提交
  3. 19 6月, 2005 4 次提交
  4. 04 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [NETLINK]: Synchronous message processing. · 2a0a6ebe
      Herbert Xu 提交于
      Let's recap the problem.  The current asynchronous netlink kernel
      message processing is vulnerable to these attacks:
      
      1) Hit and run: Attacker sends one or more messages and then exits
      before they're processed.  This may confuse/disable the next netlink
      user that gets the netlink address of the attacker since it may
      receive the responses to the attacker's messages.
      
      Proposed solutions:
      
      a) Synchronous processing.
      b) Stream mode socket.
      c) Restrict/prohibit binding.
      
      2) Starvation: Because various netlink rcv functions were written
      to not return until all messages have been processed on a socket,
      it is possible for these functions to execute for an arbitrarily
      long period of time.  If this is successfully exploited it could
      also be used to hold rtnl forever.
      
      Proposed solutions:
      
      a) Synchronous processing.
      b) Stream mode socket.
      
      Firstly let's cross off solution c).  It only solves the first
      problem and it has user-visible impacts.  In particular, it'll
      break user space applications that expect to bind or communicate
      with specific netlink addresses (pid's).
      
      So we're left with a choice of synchronous processing versus
      SOCK_STREAM for netlink.
      
      For the moment I'm sticking with the synchronous approach as
      suggested by Alexey since it's simpler and I'd rather spend
      my time working on other things.
      
      However, it does have a number of deficiencies compared to the
      stream mode solution:
      
      1) User-space to user-space netlink communication is still vulnerable.
      
      2) Inefficient use of resources.  This is especially true for rtnetlink
      since the lock is shared with other users such as networking drivers.
      The latter could hold the rtnl while communicating with hardware which
      causes the rtnetlink user to wait when it could be doing other things.
      
      3) It is still possible to DoS all netlink users by flooding the kernel
      netlink receive queue.  The attacker simply fills the receive socket
      with a single netlink message that fills up the entire queue.  The
      attacker then continues to call sendmsg with the same message in a loop.
      
      Point 3) can be countered by retransmissions in user-space code, however
      it is pretty messy.
      
      In light of these problems (in particular, point 3), we should implement
      stream mode netlink at some point.  In the mean time, here is a patch
      that implements synchronous processing.  
      Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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  5. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
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