netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve ASIX RX memory allocation error handling

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Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2015 06:59:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Dean_Jenkins@...tor.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, bjorn@...k.no,
	linux@...idrobins.net, Mark_Craske@...tor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve ASIX RX memory allocation error handling

From: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@...tor.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:29:03 +0100

> The ASIX RX handler algorithm is weak on error handling.
> There is a design flaw in the ASIX RX handler algorithm because the
> implementation for handling RX Ethernet frames for the DUB-E100 C1 can
> have Ethernet frames spanning multiple URBs. This means that payload data
> from more than 1 URB is sometimes needed to fill the socket buffer with a
> complete Ethernet frame. When the URB with the start of an Ethernet frame
> is received then an attempt is made to allocate a socket buffer. If the
> memory allocation fails then the algorithm sets the buffer pointer member
> to NULL and the function exits (no crash yet). Subsequently, the RX hander
> is called again to process the next URB which assumes there is a socket
> buffer available and the kernel crashes when there is no buffer.
> 
> This patchset implements an improvement to the RX handling algorithm to
> avoid a crash when no memory is available for the socket buffer.
> 
> The patchset will apply cleanly to the net-next master branch but the
> created kernel has not been tested. The driver was tested on ARM kernels
> v3.8 and v3.14 for a commercial product.

Series applied, thanks.
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