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Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:10:44 +0100
From:   Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:     Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        nic_swsd <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        "mlord@...ox.com" <mlord@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] r8152: rx descriptor check

Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com> :
> Francois Romieu [mailto:romieu@...zoreil.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 8:13 PM
> [...]
> > Invalid packet size corrupted receive descriptors in Realtek's device
> > reminds of CVE-2009-4537.
> 
> Do you mean that the driver would get a packet exceed the size
> which is set to RxMaxSize ?

If it was possible to get it wrong once, it should be possible to
get it wrong twice, especially if some part of the hardware design
is recycled. I don't mean anything else.

I won't speculate about some cache consistency issue or some badly
aborted dma transaction to explain the memory corruption.

-- 
Ueimor

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