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macvlan: add cond_resched() during multicast processing
authorMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Mon, 9 Mar 2020 22:57:07 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:54:13 +0000 (10:54 +0100)
commitd0a5359e5e2462ff529d1ae3dbbf177a6873824c
tree6c66c08493398c19421f115af3d79092380b74ef
parentdaf9c84758b8d2a8e3423fc98d6815f052e34a69
macvlan: add cond_resched() during multicast processing

[ Upstream commit ce9a4186f9ac475c415ffd20348176a4ea366670 ]

The Rx bound multicast packets are deferred to a workqueue and
macvlan can also suffer from the same attack that was discovered
by Syzbot for IPvlan. This solution is not as effective as in
IPvlan. IPvlan defers all (Tx and Rx) multicast packet processing
to a workqueue while macvlan does this way only for the Rx. This
fix should address the Rx codition to certain extent.

Tx is still suseptible. Tx multicast processing happens when
.ndo_start_xmit is called, hence we cannot add cond_resched().
However, it's not that severe since the user which is generating
 / flooding will be affected the most.

Fixes: 412ca1550cbe ("macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue")
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/macvlan.c