ifconfig wlan0 create causes memory corruption
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Aug 13 19:00:33 PDT 2010
:When cloning an wlan interface with e.g
: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
:a struct ifnet is allocated via if_alloc and then passed to
:ether_ifattach_bpf() which writes beyond the struct ifnet.
:This is especially a problem if struct ifnet size is close to a chunk
:size of the slab allocator - as it happens with the recent pf update.
:This was catched by guards I added to the slab allocator.
:
:Cheers,
:Johannes
Ok, we need to track this down. I don't see anything in
ether_ifattach_bpf() itself that indexes past the end of the
ifnet, is it something ether_ifattach_bpf() calls or something
after ether_ifattach_bpf() returns? How much code do we have to
review here?
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at backplane.com>
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