netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix a memmove bug in dev_gro

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jarkao2@...il.com
Cc:	xiaohui.xin@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix a memmove bug in dev_gro_receive()

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:02:10 +0000

>>Xin Xiaohui wrote:
>> I looked into the code dev_gro_receive(), found the code here:
>> if the frags[0] is pulled to 0, then the page will be released,
>> and memmove() frags left.
>> Is that right? I'm not sure if memmove do right or not, but
>> frags[0].size is never set after memove at least. what I think
>> a simple way is not to do anything if we found frags[0].size == 0.
>> The patch is as followed.
> ...
> 
> This version of the patch fixes the bug directly in memmove.
> 
> Reported-by: "Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>

Applied thanks a lot Jarek.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html