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Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:54:23 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	Alex Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	John Ronciak <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -stable] igbvf: integer wrapping bug setting the mtu

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:58:25AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > If new_mtu is very large then "new_mtu + ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN" can
> > wrap and the check on the next line can underflow. This is one of those
> > bugs which can be triggered by the user if you have namespaces
> > configured.
> > 
> > This is a static checker fix and I'm not sure what the impact is.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
> > index 95d5430..24e3883 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
> > @@ -2342,7 +2342,7 @@ static struct net_device_stats *igbvf_get_stats(struct net_device *netdev)
> >  static int igbvf_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
> >  {
> >  	struct igbvf_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
> > -	int max_frame = new_mtu + ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN;
> > +	unsigned int max_frame = new_mtu + ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN;
> > 
> >  	if ((new_mtu < 68) || (max_frame > MAX_JUMBO_FRAME_SIZE)) {
> >  		dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev, "Invalid MTU setting\n");
> 
> It is safer to check:
>   	if ((new_mtu < 68) || (new_mtu > MAX_JUMBO_FRAME_SIZE - ETH_HLEN - ETH_FCS_LEN)) {
> 

I believe my fix is already 100% safe...  Where is the bug in my code?

Your fix harder to read because of the additional math and because it's
checking "new_mtu" when we care about "max_frame".

regards,
dan carpenter

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