3.6.11.6 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Wei Liu [ Upstream commit 03393fd5cc2b6cdeec32b704ecba64dbb0feae3c ] Some frontend drivers are sending packets > 64 KiB in length. This length overflows the length field in the first slot making the following slots have an invalid length. Turn this error back into a non-fatal error by dropping the packet. To avoid having the following slots having fatal errors, consume all slots in the packet. This does not reopen the security hole in XSA-39 as if the packet as an invalid number of slots it will still hit fatal error case. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Signed-off-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c index d5a4e74..89dd960 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c @@ -946,12 +946,22 @@ static int netbk_count_requests(struct xenvif *vif, memcpy(txp, RING_GET_REQUEST(&vif->tx, cons + slots), sizeof(*txp)); - if (txp->size > first->size) { - netdev_err(vif->dev, - "Invalid tx request, slot size %u > remaining size %u\n", - txp->size, first->size); - netbk_fatal_tx_err(vif); - return -EIO; + + /* If the guest submitted a frame >= 64 KiB then + * first->size overflowed and following slots will + * appear to be larger than the frame. + * + * This cannot be fatal error as there are buggy + * frontends that do this. + * + * Consume all slots and drop the packet. + */ + if (!drop_err && txp->size > first->size) { + if (net_ratelimit()) + netdev_dbg(vif->dev, + "Invalid tx request, slot size %u > remaining size %u\n", + txp->size, first->size); + drop_err = -EIO; } first->size -= txp->size; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/