From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch] r8169: fix crash when large packets are received Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090609.035435.193703945.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1244511638.30733.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090608.195709.158667574.davem@davemloft.net> <4A2E2456.4020703@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, stable@kernel.org To: mjt@tls.msk.ru Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37720 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755046AbZFIKyd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:54:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A2E2456.4020703@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Michael Tokarev Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:59:02 +0400 > David Miller wrote: >> From: Jon Masters >> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:40:38 -0400 >> >>> CC -stable team - remote DoS with this hardware present. >> "remote", if on the same physical subnet, otherwise easily protectable >> if not impossible to trigger > > "remote" as "from outside of the host in question". > But still, this is definitely worth fixing. Of course, just wanted to make sure the true nature of the problem was explicit.