netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4 V2] Ethernet drivers in 3.14-rc3 kernel: fix 3 buffer overflows triggered by hardware devices

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Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:35:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alon@...vatecore.com
Cc:	David.Laight@...lab.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	grantgrundler@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4 V2] Ethernet drivers in 3.14-rc3 kernel: fix 3
 buffer overflows triggered by hardware devices

From: Alon Nafta <alon@...vatecore.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:35:37 -0700

> Moreover, a system can be protected from malicious HW, and in fact
> doesn't have to trust HW at all (except for the CPU obviously).

So should we check to make sure the program counter of the cpu really
increments to the next instruction every time?

There is a limit to everything.

The length field of DMA descriptors is absolutely, fully, trusted in
the vast majority of drivers.
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