netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx4: Memcpy at slave_event should copy sizeof mlx4

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

Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:02:46 +0200
From:	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:	Carol L Soto <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>, brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Jack Morgenstein <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx4: Memcpy at slave_event should copy sizeof mlx4_eqe

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:15 PM,  <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> From: Carol L Soto <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> If the caps.eqe_size is bigger than the struct mlx4_eqe then there
> is a potential for corrupting data at the master context. We can see
> the message "Master failed to generate an EQE for slave: X" when the
> event_eqe array wraps and we can see potential oops at the function
> mlx4_GEN_EQE. Also correct a memset of cmd_eqe to use the sizeof
> mlx4_eqe instead of eqe_size.
>
> Fixes: 08ff32352d6f ('mlx4: 64-byte CQE/EQE support')
> Signed-off-by: Carol L Soto <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks Carol, I'd like to review this a bit more tomorrow and will
send it with another fix/es to net
--
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