netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] e1000: enhance frame fragment detection

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:21:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] e1000: enhance frame fragment detection

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:15:38 -0800

> From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> 
> Originally From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Modified by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> 
> Hey all-
> 	A security discussion was recently given:
> http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan//events/3596.en.html
> And a patch that I submitted awhile back was brought up.  Apparently some of
> their testing revealed that they were able to force a buffer fragment in e1000
> in which the trailing fragment was greater than 4 bytes.  As a result the
> fragment check I introduced failed to detect the fragement and a partial
> invalid frame was passed up into the network stack.  I've written this patch
> to correct it.  I'm in the process of testing it now, but it makes good
> logical sense to me.  Effectively it maintains a per-adapter state variable
> which detects a non-EOP frame, and discards it and subsequent non-EOP frames
> leading up to _and_ _including_ the next positive-EOP frame (as it is by
> definition the last fragment).  This should prevent any and all partial frames
> from entering the network stack from e1000.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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