linux-kernel - [PATCH net 0/2] Fragmented SKB corrections

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:12:08 -0700
From:   Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 0/2] Fragmented SKB corrections

Two issues were observed in a review of the bcmgenet driver support for
fragmented SKBs which are addressed by this patch set.

The first addresses a problem that could occur if the driver is not able
to DMA map a fragment of the SKB.  This would be a highly unusual event
but it would leave the hardware descriptors in an invalid state which
should be prevented.

The second is a hazard that could occur if the driver is able to reclaim
the first control block of a fragmented SKB before all of its fragments
have completed processing by the hardware.  In this case the SKB could
be freed leading to reuse of memory that is still in use by hardware.

Doug Berger (2):
  net: bcmgenet: Fix unmapping of fragments in bcmgenet_xmit()
  net: bcmgenet: Free skb after last Tx frag

 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 299 +++++++++++++------------
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.h |   2 +
 2 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)

-- 
2.13.0