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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: mvneta: Fix an out of bounds check
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 11:01:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5BWZDS09uv7TTKA@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y5A7d1E5ccwHTYPf@kadam>

On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 10:06:31AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> In an earlier commit, I added a bounds check to prevent an out of bounds
> read and a WARN().  On further discussion and consideration that check
> was probably too aggressive.  Instead of returning -EINVAL, a better fix
> would be to just prevent the out of bounds read but continue the process.
> 
> Background: The value of "pp->rxq_def" is a number between 0-7 by default,
> or even higher depending on the value of "rxq_number", which is a module
> parameter. If the value is more than the number of available CPUs then
> it will trigger the WARN() in cpu_max_bits_warn().
> 
> Fixes: e8b4fc13900b ("net: mvneta: Prevent out of bounds read in mvneta_config_rss()")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2: fix the subject to say net instead of net-next.
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks for the followup,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-07  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-07  7:06 [PATCH net v2] net: mvneta: Fix an out of bounds check Dan Carpenter
2022-12-07  9:01 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2022-12-08 17:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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