[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Sep 21 18:58:38 UTC 2015


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

    virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt7.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 6b2fe38d8efe1d64b7e2dc0a37638cf1dff8d335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 10:34:04 +0800
Subject: virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST

commit 48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 0ad6c0c..46976f4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1738,9 +1738,9 @@ 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
--
1.9.1





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