netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tls: don't use stack memory in a scatterlist

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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 20:28:46 +0000
From:   Matt Mullins <mmullins@...com>
To:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "aviadye@...lanox.com" <aviadye@...lanox.com>,
        Doron Roberts-Kedes <doronrk@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tls: don't use stack memory in a scatterlist

On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 14:50 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> I'm surprised this problem wasn't discovered sooner.  How exactly did you
> discover it?  Did you actually see it trigger or is this purely from code
> inspection?

Honestly, I'm not sure how it got uncovered, but it was observed at
runtime.  Doron Roberts-Kedes hit a null pointer dereference so we
turned on CONFIG_DEBUG_SG -- then it became a proper
BUG_ON(!virt_addr_valid(buf)); in sg_set_buf.