netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: xilinx_emaclite: fix receive buffer overflow

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:19:33 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     anssi.hannula@...wise.fi
Cc:     michal.simek@...inx.com, soren.brinkmann@...inx.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: xilinx_emaclite: fix receive buffer overflow

From: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@...wise.fi>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:11:44 +0200

> xilinx_emaclite looks at the received data to try to determine the
> Ethernet packet length but does not properly clamp it if
> proto_type == ETH_P_IP or 1500 < proto_type <= 1518, causing a buffer
> overflow and a panic via skb_panic() as the length exceeds the allocated
> skb size.
> 
> Fix those cases.
> 
> Also add an additional unconditional check with WARN_ON() at the end.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@...wise.fi>
> Fixes: bb81b2ddfa19 ("net: add Xilinx emac lite device driver")

Applied.