[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature

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-ckt20.

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 59efeb70d62a03ce84e2c0d8cd07b8deebf85e9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:23:08 +0100
Subject: atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature

commit f43bfaeddc79effbf3d0fcb53ca477cca66f3db8 upstream.

atl2 includes NETIF_F_SG in hw_features even though it has no support
for non-linear skbs.  This bug was originally harmless since the
driver does not claim to implement checksum offload and that used to
be a requirement for SG.

Now that SG and checksum offload are independent features, if you
explicitly enable SG *and* use one of the rare protocols that can use
SG without checkusm offload, this potentially leaks sensitive
information (before you notice that it just isn't working).  Therefore
this obscure bug has been designated CVE-2016-2117.

Reported-by: Justin Yackoski <jyackoski at crypto-nite.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Fixes: ec5f06156423 ("net: Kill link between CSUM and SG features.")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c
index 84a09e8..5086ec9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c
@@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ static int atl2_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)

 	err = -EIO;

-	netdev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX;
+	netdev->hw_features = NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX;
 	netdev->features |= (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX);

 	/* Init PHY as early as possible due to power saving issue  */
--
2.7.4