linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] macsec: dynamically allocate space for sglist

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Message-ID: <20170425203555.GA9378@bistromath.localdomain>
Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:35:55 +0200
From:   Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] macsec: dynamically allocate space for sglist

2017-04-25, 19:08:18 +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> We call skb_cow_data, which is good anyway to ensure we can actually
> modify the skb as such (another error from prior). Now that we have the
> number of fragments required, we can safely allocate exactly that amount
> of memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>
> Cc: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
> Cc: security@...nel.org
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Acked-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>

Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
Fixes: CVE-2017-7477

David, this fix is essentially equivalent to my patch "macsec: avoid
heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec on receive".  Feel free to pick my patch
if you prefer (it's smaller), but this looks ok to me.


Thanks,

-- 
Sabrina