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TC hooks allow the application of filters and actions to packets at both ingress and egress of the network stack. It is possible, with poor configuration, that this can produce loops whereby an ingress hook calls a mirred egress action that has an egress hook that redirects back to the first ingress etc. The TC core classifier protects against loops when doing reclassifies but there is no protection against a packet looping between multiple hooks and recursively calling act_mirred. This can lead to stack overflow panics. Add a per CPU counter to act_mirred that is incremented for each recursive call of the action function when processing a packet. If a limit is passed then the packet is dropped and CPU counter reset. Note that this patch does not protect against loops in TC datapaths. Its aim is to prevent stack overflow kernel panics that can be a consequence of such loops. Signed-off-by: John Hurley <john.hurley@netronome.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.