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From: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor.com>
Cc: <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 1/1] net: cdc_ncm: Fix TX zero padding
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 23:01:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fugkfib6.fsf@miraculix.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493926895-14556-2-git-send-email-jim_baxter@mentor.com> (Jim Baxter's message of "Thu, 4 May 2017 20:41:35 +0100")

Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor.com> writes:

> The zero padding that is added to NTB's does
> not zero the memory correctly.
> This is because the skb_put modifies the value
> of skb_out->len which results in the memset
> command not setting any memory to zero as
> (ctx->tx_max - skb_out->len) == 0.
>
> I have resolved this by storing the size of
> the memory to be zeroed before the skb_put
> and using this in the memset call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor.com>

Ouch! Thanks for finding this.  This should go to the stable queue as
well.

Reviewed-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-04 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-04 19:41 [PATCH V1 0/1] net: cdc_ncm: Fix TX zero padding Jim Baxter
2017-05-04 19:41 ` [PATCH V1 1/1] " Jim Baxter
2017-05-04 21:01   ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
2017-05-08 10:49     ` Baxter, Jim
2017-05-08 11:08       ` Bjørn Mork
2017-05-08 12:02         ` Baxter, Jim

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