From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBN7f-0002ux-U9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:37:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBN7b-0007SB-C6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:37:03 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::236]:34893) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBN7b-0007R5-3a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:36:59 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-x236.google.com with SMTP id l126so110577621wml.0 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 05:36:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:36:56 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko Message-ID: <20151222133656.GA5330@nanopsycho.orion> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: P J P Cc: Qinghao Tang , Scott Feldman , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 02:07:01PM CET, ppandit@redhat.com wrote: > Hello Scott, Jiri > >A stack overflow issue was reported by Mr Qinghao Tang, CC'd here. It occurs >while processing transmit(tx) descriptors in tx_consume() routine. If a >descriptor was to have more than allowed(ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16) packet >fragments, the processing loop suffers an off-by-one error. Thus leading to >OOB memory access and leakage of host memory. > >Please see below a proposed patch to fix this issue. Does it look okay? > >=== >>From f3461d8098a0572786f5a2d7a492863090c73134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >From: Prasad J Pandit >Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:21:00 +0530 >Subject: [PATCH] net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check > >While processing transmit(tx) descriptors in 'tx_consume' routine >the switch emulator suffers from an off-by-one error, if a >descriptor was to have more than allowed(ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX) >fragments. Fix an incorrect bounds check to avoid it. > >Reported-by: Qinghao Tang >Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko