[CVE-2015-5156][Precise][Trusty][LTS-Utopic][Vivid] virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Oct 2 16:05:08 UTC 2015


From: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>

virtio declares support for NETIF_F_FRAGLIST, but assumes
that there are at most MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2 fragments which isn't
always true with a fraglist.

A longer fraglist in the skb will make the call to skb_to_sgvec overflow
the sg array, leading to memory corruption.

Drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST so we only get what we can handle.

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>
(cherry picked from commit 48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39)
CVE-2015-5156
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1484793
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index f13a6734dcbc..715e5c4200fc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -981,9 +981,9 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	/* Do we support "hardware" checksums? */
 	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM)) {
 		/* This opens up the world of extra features. */
-		dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_SG|NETIF_F_FRAGLIST;
+		dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG;
 		if (csum)
-			dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_SG|NETIF_F_FRAGLIST;
+			dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG;
 
 		if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO)) {
 			dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_UFO




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