netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:19:42 +0300
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting
 into skb

On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 15:37 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 02:20:29PM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 10:00 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > >               skb = page_to_skb(vi, page, len);
> > > >               ...
> > > 
> > > Sorry I don't get it yet. Where is mergeable ignored here?
> > 
> > The NULL deref happens in page_to_skb(), before merge buffers are
> > handled.
> 
> The len here is a single buffer length, so for mergeable
> buffers it is <= the size of the buffer we gave to hardware,
> which is PAGE_SIZE.
> 
>         err = virtqueue_add_buf_single(vi->rvq, page_address(page),
>                                        PAGE_SIZE, false, page, gfp);
>  
> 
> Unless of course we are trying to work around broken hardware again,
> which I don't have a problem with, but should probably
> get appropriate comments in code and trigger a warning.
> 
> > I'll test it and see if it's really the case.

I've verified it with VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF set, and we still get the
NULL deref.



-- 

Sasha.

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