Patch "atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

Patch "atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     atl2-disable-unimplemented-scatter-gather-feature.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon May 16 14:28:53 PDT 2016
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:23:08 +0100
Subject: atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1547
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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

[ Upstream commit f43bfaeddc79effbf3d0fcb53ca477cca66f3db8 ]

atl2 includes NETIF_F_SG in hw_features even though it has no support
for non-linear skbs.  This bug was originally harmless since the
driver does not claim to implement checksum offload and that used to
be a requirement for SG.

Now that SG and checksum offload are independent features, if you
explicitly enable SG *and* use one of the rare protocols that can use
SG without checkusm offload, this potentially leaks sensitive
information (before you notice that it just isn't working).  Therefore
this obscure bug has been designated CVE-2016-2117.

Reported-by: Justin Yackoski <jyackoski@crypto-nite.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fixes: ec5f06156423 ("net: Kill link between CSUM and SG features.")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c
@@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ static int atl2_probe(struct pci_dev *pd
 
 	err = -EIO;
 
-	netdev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX;
+	netdev->hw_features = NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX;
 	netdev->features |= (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX);
 
 	/* Init PHY as early as possible due to power saving issue  */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@decadent.org.uk are

queue-3.14/atl2-disable-unimplemented-scatter-gather-feature.patch