netdev - [PATCH 0/1] macvtap regression since 3.18

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, 18 Sep 2015 09:54:43 +0200
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] macvtap regression since 3.18

Michael,

here is a fixup for macvtap. It was detected by running
several different patterns via uperf over multiple network
cards. Within some minutes, the network traffic stalled
and Matt bisected it down to 39ec7de7092b ("macvtap: fix
uninitialized access on TUNSETIFF"). Turns out that
this patch broke sndbuf setting. I dont know exactly what
went wrong in that testcase, but an earlier version of
the patch did the trick and the testcase is now stable
again.

I was tempted to add another variable, but u,up,s,sp seem
to have a meaning (signed,signed pointer) so I  made u
an unsigned int again. Long term we might want to refactor
the code to have 

int sk_sendbuf;
short ifr_flags;
int vnet_hdr_sz;

or something like that. But this rework would be to big
for stable.

Some of the casts that I added are not strictly necessary
as get/put_user already do this, but better safe than
sorry as we dont want to rely on the implementation of
macros. Opinions?

Christian Borntraeger (1):
  macvtap: Fix regression for macvtap ioctls

 drivers/net/macvtap.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
2.3.0

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html