netdev - Re: [patch v2 -stable] igbvf: integer wrapping bug setting the mtu

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Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 05:39:44 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	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 v2 -stable] igbvf: integer wrapping bug setting the mtu

On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 15:29 +0300, Dan Carpenter 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.
> 
> Also since this is something the user can trigger then we don't want
> to
> have dev_err() message.
> 
> This is a static checker fix and I'm not sure what the impact is.
> ---
> v2: reformat and also remove the dev_err()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Thanks Dan, I have added your patch to my queue.

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