kist: Don't write above the highwater outbuf mark

KIST works by computing how much should be allowed to write to the kernel for
a given socket, and then it writes that amount to the outbuf.

The problem is that it could be possible that the outbuf already has lots of
data in it from a previous scheduling round (because the kernel is full/busy
and Tor was not able to flush the outbuf yet). KIST ignores that the outbuf
has been filling (is above its "highwater") and writes more anyway. The end
result is that the outbuf length would exceed INT_MAX, hence causing an
assertion error and a corresponding "Bug()" message to get printed to the
logs.

This commit makes it for KIST to take into account the outbuf length when
computing the available space.

Bug found and patch by Rob Jansen.

Closes #29168. TROVE-2019-001.

Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>

diff --git a/changes/ticket29168 b/changes/ticket29168
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..65c5232
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/ticket29168
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+  o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST):
+    - Make KIST to always take into account the outbuf length when computing
+      what we can actually put in the outbuf. This could lead to the outbuf
+      being filled up and thus a possible memory DoS vector. TROVE-2019-001.
+      Fixes bug 29168; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.

diff --git a/src/or/scheduler_kist.c b/src/or/scheduler_kist.c
index 6d6490077d9d5fb7e71c3d6ad516cb6c0740d3c3..fb33a5d1d8275aca34197f27b9d92ec14fb376f9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/or/scheduler_kist.c
+++ b/src/or/scheduler_kist.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ update_socket_info_impl, (socket_table_ent_t *ent))
   extra_space =
     clamp_double_to_int64(
                  (ent->cwnd * (int64_t)ent->mss) * sock_buf_size_factor) -
-    ent->notsent;
+    ent->notsent - (int64_t)channel_outbuf_length((channel_t *) ent->chan);
   if ((tcp_space + extra_space) < 0) {
     /* This means that the "notsent" queue is just too big so we shouldn't put
      * more in the kernel for now. */