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From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macsec: avoid heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:12:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170425151248.GB25241@bistromath.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9ovUDJRDA+Td4Y0bfQZEG5pZQo1JC0nYDVqWMOdxAe5kQ@mail.gmail.com>

2017-04-25, 17:08:28 +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Sabrina,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> wrote:
> > Ugh, good catch :/
> >
> > AFAICT this patch doesn't really help, because NETIF_F_FRAGLIST
> > doesn't get tested in paths that can lead to triggering this.
> 
> You're right. This fixes the xmit() path, but not the receive path,
> which appears to take skbs directly from the upper device.
> 
> > I'll post a patch to allocate a properly-sized sg array.
> 
> I just posted this series, which should fix things in a robust way:
> 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/754861/

Yes, that prevents the overflow, but now you're just dropping
packets. I'll review that later, let's fix the overflow without
breaking connectivity for now.

-- 
Sabrina

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-25 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-21 21:14 [PATCH] macsec: avoid heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-24 11:02 ` David Laight
2017-04-24 12:15   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-24 17:47 ` David Miller
2017-04-25 14:53 ` Sabrina Dubroca
2017-04-25 15:08   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-25 15:12     ` Sabrina Dubroca [this message]
2017-04-25 15:13       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-25 15:23         ` [PATCH] macsec: dynamically allocate space for sglist Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-25 16:36           ` Sabrina Dubroca
2017-04-25 17:08             ` [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-25 20:35               ` Sabrina Dubroca
2017-04-26 18:42               ` David Miller

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