APPLIED[B, C]: [SRU][Bionic][Cosmic][Disco][PATCH 0/1] s390/qeth: fix length check in SNMP processing

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Thu Dec 20 07:37:33 UTC 2018


On 2018-12-14 11:48:17 , Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805802
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> The response for a SNMP request can consist of multiple parts,
>               which the cmd callback stages into a kernel buffer until all
>               parts have been received. If the callback detects that the
>               staging buffer provides insufficient space, it bails out with
>               error.
>               This processing is buggy for the first part of the response -
>               while it initially checks for a length of 'data_len', it later
>               copies an additional amount of
>               'offsetof(struct qeth_snmp_cmd, data)' bytes.
> 
> 
> == Fix ==
> 9a764c1e5968 ("s390/qeth: fix length check in SNMP processing")
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low.  Changes limited to s390.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> Julian Wiedmann (1):
>   s390/qeth: fix length check in SNMP processing
> 
>  drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 27 ++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.7.4
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