* [PATCH] net: ne2k-pci: fix missing residual byte in block output for 32-bit IO
@ 2026-04-21 14:57 Titouan Ameline de Cadeville
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From: Titouan Ameline de Cadeville @ 2026-04-21 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: andrew+netdev, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, linux-kernel,
Titouan Ameline de Cadeville
ne2k_pci_block_output() handles residual bytes after the main outsl()
loop when the transfer count is not a multiple of 4. It correctly
handles the 2-byte residual case with outw(), but is missingg the
1 byte residual case. This means for packets where count % 4 == 1 or
count % 4 == 3, the final byte is never written to the NIC's data
port.
In practice, this is masked by the count being rounded up to a 4-byte
boundary earlier in the function for ONLY_32BIT_IO cards, but that
rounding itself causes a little information leak by sending
uninitialized kernel buffer bytes on the wire
Add the missing outb() call for the odd byte case, mirroring what
ne2k_pci_block_input() already does correctly.
Signed-off-by: Titouan Ameline de Cadeville <titouan.ameline@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne2k-pci.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne2k-pci.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne2k-pci.c
index 1a34da07c0db..1bd5b94b5d22 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne2k-pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne2k-pci.c
@@ -632,6 +632,8 @@ static void ne2k_pci_block_output(struct net_device *dev, int count,
outw(le16_to_cpu(*b++), NE_BASE + NE_DATAPORT);
buf = (char *)b;
}
+ if (count & 1)
+ outb(*buf, NE_BASE + NE_DATAPORT);
}
}
--
2.44.2
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