[tor-commits] [tor/maint-0.3.5] kist: Don't write above the highwater outbuf mark

nickm at torproject.org nickm at torproject.org
Thu Feb 21 15:24:33 UTC 2019


commit be84ed1a64ed7ce810bd3924fa96c2588b491ef5
Author: David Goulet <dgoulet at torproject.org>
Date:   Thu Jan 24 10:52:08 2019 -0500

    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 at torproject.org>
---
 changes/ticket29168     | 5 +++++
 src/or/scheduler_kist.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/changes/ticket29168 b/changes/ticket29168
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..65c5232f6
--- /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 6d6490077..fb33a5d1d 100644
--- 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. */





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