netdev - Re: [PATCH] via-velocity: unconditionally drop frames with bad l2 length

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:37:29 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	timo.teras@....fi
Cc:	romieu@...zoreil.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] via-velocity: unconditionally drop frames with bad l2
 length

From: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:36:32 +0200

> By default the driver allowed incorrect frames to be received. What is
> worse the code does not handle very short frames correctly. The FCS
> length is unconditionally subtracted, and the underflow can cause
> skb_put to be called with large number after implicit cast to unsigned.
> And indeed, an skb_over_panic() was observed with via-velocity.
> 
> This removes the module parameter as it does not work in it's
> current state, and should be implemented via NETIF_F_RXALL if needed.
> 
> Suggested-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>

Applied, thanks Timo.
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