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From: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn>,
	Qemu Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>,
	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net: mipsnet: check transmit buffer size before sending
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:47:55 +0530 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1606131243140.16918@wniryva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <575E2226.5010004@redhat.com>

  Hello Jason,

+-- On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Jason Wang wrote --+
| >       case MIPSNET_TX_DATA_BUFFER:
| >           s->tx_buffer[s->tx_written++] = val;
| 
| I believe we may still have a buffer overflow here, no?

  No, this is the overflow that the patch is meant to fix.
 
| > -        if (s->tx_written == s->tx_count) {
| > +        if ((s->tx_written >= MAX_ETH_FRAME_SIZE)
| > +            || (s->tx_written == s->tx_count)) {
| >               /* Send buffer. */

  Earlier, send buffer would occur when if 'tx_written' reached 'tx_count'. 
With this patch, it'll also occur when 'tx_written' reaches maximum frame 
size.

Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-13  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-08 10:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net: mipsnet: check transmit buffer size before sending P J P
2016-06-13  3:01 ` Jason Wang
2016-06-13  7:17   ` P J P [this message]
2016-06-15  8:48     ` Jason Wang
2016-06-15 17:06       ` Peter Maydell

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