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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	sashal@kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: validate untrusted gso packets without csum offload
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:18:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190221161852.GE25800@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+FuTSdeAaMB=xveBGQtQ-WSK=uHyYQBFWhbzUxh4b8FNNuWdA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:38:16AM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> Unfortunately commit
> 
>   net: validate untrusted gso packets without csum offload
>   d5be7f632bad0f489879eed0ff4b99bd7fe0b74c
> 
> needs follow-up
> 
>   net: avoid false positives in untrusted gso validation
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1044429/
> 
> It rejects illegal packets injected from userspace, including at
> least one that can crash the kernel. But I'm afraid it has false
> positives.
> 
> I would suggest holding back on the backport to stable branches until
> both patches can go in together.
> 
> If the second patch is not accepted, the alternative will be to revert
> this filter-based approach completely and fix the narrow kernel crash
> (but I'm afraid that syzkaller will just find others..)
> 
> Apologies for the mess,

Ok, I will go drop this patch from all of the stable queues.  Can you
remind me when your fixup hits Linus's tree so that I can queue up both
patches?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-21 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-21 15:38 net: validate untrusted gso packets without csum offload Willem de Bruijn
2019-02-21 16:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-02-21 16:41   ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-02-24 22:53     ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-02-25 14:58       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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