[PATCH 4.4 10/73] atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-05-17T01:15:56Z

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

[ Upstream commit f43bfaeddc79effbf3d0fcb53ca477cca66f3db8 ]

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@crypto-nite.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fixes: ec5f06156423 ("net: Kill link between CSUM and SG features.")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 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 *pd

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 */