[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "macvtap: correctly linearize skb when zerocopy is used" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    macvtap: correctly linearize skb when zerocopy is used

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 3ae7acb229eb6d343be2c6b89acaa7b0db882a2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:43:28 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] macvtap: correctly linearize skb when zerocopy is used

commit 61d46bf979d5cd7c164709a80ad5676a35494aae upstream.

Userspace may produce vectors greater than MAX_SKB_FRAGS. When we try to
linearize parts of the skb to let the rest of iov to be fit in
the frags, we need count copylen into linear when calling macvtap_alloc_skb()
instead of partly counting it into data_len. Since this breaks
zerocopy_sg_from_iovec() since its inner counter assumes nr_frags should
be zero at beginning. This cause nr_frags to be increased wrongly without
setting the correct frags.

This bug were introduced from b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73
(macvtap: zerocopy: validate vectors before building skb).

Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/macvtap.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
index d566234..cc5b48d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct macvtap_queue *q, struct msghdr *m,
 	int vnet_hdr_len = 0;
 	int copylen = 0;
 	bool zerocopy = false;
+	size_t linear;

 	if (q->flags & IFF_VNET_HDR) {
 		vnet_hdr_len = q->vnet_hdr_sz;
@@ -711,11 +712,14 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct macvtap_queue *q, struct msghdr *m,
 			copylen = vnet_hdr.hdr_len;
 		if (!copylen)
 			copylen = GOODCOPY_LEN;
-	} else
+		linear = copylen;
+	} else {
 		copylen = len;
+		linear = vnet_hdr.hdr_len;
+	}

 	skb = macvtap_alloc_skb(&q->sk, NET_IP_ALIGN, copylen,
-				vnet_hdr.hdr_len, noblock, &err);
+				linear, noblock, &err);
 	if (!skb)
 		goto err;

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1.8.1.2